Where does our humanity go when innocent lives are lost? For decades, Boko Haram and bandits have unleashed violence on Nigerians without mercy, killing Muslims and Christians alike. Their bullets do not discriminate. Yet, as if the bloodshed was not enough, another battle is now being waged a battle of narratives.
Recently, foreign influencers and agenda-driven groups have tried to brand Nigeria as the world’s most dangerous place for Christians. They push the false story of a systematic campaign of extermination, as if Boko Haram’s victims are only Christian. This is a lie, carefully packaged to sow fear and fuel division. The reality is that both Muslims and Christians have been slaughtered, their villages razed, their families destroyed. Boko Haram’s hatred is against humanity itself.
Nigeria is one of the most religiously diverse countries on earth. For centuries, Muslims and Christians have lived side by side, marrying, trading, celebrating, and mourning together. Yes, there are occasional, isolated clashes with religious tones, but these happen everywhere in the world. To twist such incidents into proof of a grand anti-Christian conspiracy in Nigeria is dishonest.
Both Islam and Christianity condemn the killing of innocents. Both reject terrorism. To ignore this truth and push sectarian lies is to hand victory to the terrorists and to their sponsors. The real agenda of those foreign voices is not justice, but chaos. They want Nigerians to see enemies where there are neighbors, to distrust where there should be unity.
We cannot allow it. Every time we swallow the poison of “us versus them,” we give Boko Haram and its backers another win. Nigeria’s future depends on rejecting falsehoods, resisting manipulation, and standing firm in the truth: whether Muslim or Christian, the victims are human and their blood calls us not to division, but to unity.
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