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Updated: NSCIA says Trumps threat, an agenda to destabilise Nigeria, condemn Muslims
NSCIA says Trumps threat, an agenda to destabilise Nigeria, condemn Muslims
…Says terrorists enemies of Muslim community
Aliyu Musa
The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has condemned what it described as “false and dangerous” claims of a Christian genocide in Nigeria, warning that the narrative was part of a coordinated foreign agenda to destabilize Nigeria.
Secretary General of NSCIA, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede stated this while addressing the media after an expanded general-purpose committee meeting of all Islamic organizations across the country on Sunday in Abuja.
He rejected in its entirety, what he termed an attempt by President of the United States, Donald Trump, to portray Nigeria’s insecurity as a religious conflict.
He said: “The Nigerian Muslim community condemns the recent threats against the sovereignty of our nation. There is no Christian genocide in Nigeria. What the country faces is a complex and tragic security crisis that affects all citizens regardless of faith or ethnicity.
“In the Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, and some parts of the south, there are overlapping factors of poverty, mass unemployment, drug abuse, porous waters, and the proliferation of small-towns and large-scale weapons.
“As researchers have noted, it is also deeply driven by a missing artisanal mining of solid minerals. Criminal syndicates have banked some villages and displaced populations, creating an ungoverned space for their illegal mining operations.
“This is a violent, organized crime market for resources, and there is nothing Islamic about it. In Kasina, Sokoto, Muslims have lost more than thousands of souls to the same bandits who answer to crime, not strife or faith.
“The United States Department itself in the 2022 report on International Religious Freedom, stated and I quote, bandits are another criminality, not a diversity between particular religious groups who are the primary drivers, unquote, of inter-cultural violence. This is not a religious crime.
The Council regretted that the recent decision by Trump to designate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) for alleged religious persecution was an “act of political cynicism.” It accused some U.S. politicians, evangelical groups, and Nigerian separatists of spreading misleading claims to influence American domestic politics and undermine Nigeria’s unity.
“The re-imposition of the CPC designation is not based on new facts. It is a political tool wielded by lobbyists and cheapens the very idea of religious freedom.
“There is a specific intent to destroy the whole or a part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. What Nigeria faces is a complex and tragic security crisis that brings immeasurable pain to all its citizens regardless of faith or ethnic persuasion.”
While arguing that violence in Nigeria stems from factors such as poverty, climate change, organized crime, and weak governance and not religion, the Council stressed that both Muslims and Christians have been victims of terrorism, banditry, and communal clashes.
“These groups are deviants whose ideology declares Muslims who do not join them as dissidents. Muslims are also their victims; they kill both Muslims and Christians, they demolish mosques and churches, they don’t differentiate.
“These terrorists are not our representatives, they are our mortal enemies. The world knows that some of the terrorist groups being paraded as Islamic are creation of some non-Muslim interests.
“This is not an Islamic invasion. It is a desperate southward migration of Arabs seeking survival. This climate-driven migration forces others into direct and open violent competition with sedentary farming communities over the wayfaring resources of land and water.”
The NSCIA also alleged that the genocide narrative gained momentum after Nigeria reaffirmed its support for a two-state solution and solidarity with the Palestinian people at the UN General Assembly, claiming it was part of a wider geopolitical attempt to distract from the actual genocide being perpetrated in Gaza.
“We must ask this most important question, why now? The answer lies in geopolitics. This campaign escalated immediately after Nigeria at the 80th session of the UN General Assembly reaffirmed its principal position and consistent support for a two-state solution and for the solidarity of the Palestinian people. It is important to note that this narrative of genocide is being driven also by far-right and pro-Israeli actors.
“The goal is to create a distraction, a cynical, despicable, auto-baptismal, designed to deflect from the actual genocide being perpetrated in Gaza. They seek to create a false moral imbalance, screaming about an imaginary two-state genocide by Muslims in Nigeria in order to drown out a false condemnation of a real documented genocide of Muslims in the Palestine.
“Notwithstanding the fact that there are over 1,000 Muslims in Gaza alone, yet the United States continues to support the globally condemned genocide against the Palestinians.
“The same USA that is currently planning to invade Venezuela, a country where Christians constitute 80% of the population, has suddenly become a Messiah of the Nigerian Christians. The ultimate agenda is not just distraction, it is destabilization. Our own foreign minister, Yusuf Tugat, has thrown the word in plain language when he said we should not create another Sudan in Nigeria.
“The United States is well aware that smoking religious emissions is the fastest and most effective way to destabilize a multi-ethnic, multi-religious nation of over 220 million people like Nigeria. They are using these tools of foreign manipulation to fragment Nigerian communities, setting the stage for our collapse just as it has been planned for a century. This agenda is not new.”
The Council urged the international community to “reject this false, dangerous, and destabilizing narrative” and called on the Nigerian government to intensify efforts to protect all citizens and confront insecurity decisively.
By Nick Ibe, Abuja
To cushion the harsh impact of rising living costs, the Federal Government has approved a N70,000 monthly transport intervention for public service workers across all levels for six months, beginning in November 2026, .
This was one of the outcomes of the conciliation meeting between the Federal Government and the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in Abuja on Tuesday, following renewed pressure from organised labour over the rising cost of living, workers’ welfare and outstanding agreements.
The government also approved the payment of peculiar allowance arrears, effective from May 1, 2026, in three equal monthly instalments beginning in November.
The parties did not agree on the effective date for implementing the national minimum wage, but agreed that the Minimum Wage Negotiation Committee would be constituted and commence meetings immediately.
The resolutions were contained in a memorandum of understanding signed at the end of the meeting by the Director-General of Budget, Timi Yakubu; NLC President, Joe Ajaero; the Permanent Secretary, Service Welfare Office, Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr Garba Abdul S.U.; and the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi.
The document made public after the meeting was tagged: ‘Resolutions Reached at a Conciliation Meeting Held at Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment Between the Federal Government and the Leadership of Nigeria Labour Congress on Tuesday, 27th October, 2026’, outlined agreements on minimum wage negotiations, transport support, outstanding allowances, health workers’ remuneration, tax relief and hazard allowances for agricultural officers.
The meeting followed an earlier conciliation session held on October 22, 2026, convened by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment to address disagreements between the government and organised labour.
On the transport intervention, the document stated, “That transport intervention of Seventy Thousand Naira (N70,000) commencing from November 2026 would be paid across all levels for a period of six months.”
The agreement trails high transportation costs and the prices of other essential goods following the removal of the petrol subsidy in May 2023, by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Organised labour has repeatedly demanded measures to ease the economic pressure on workers, including reductions in petrol prices, improved wages and the implementation of outstanding welfare agreements.
The memorandum also noted the NLC leadership’s concerns about the government’s handling of its demands.
Addressing the disagreement, it stated that the NLC leadership “expressed concern over the Federal Government’s attitude towards the above issues.”
It added that the Federal Government, in response, “stated that it fully respects the right of the Congress to advocate for improved working conditions for Nigerian workers, and is genuinely trying to address every aspect of it through a structured intervention.”
On the national minimum wage, the parties agreed that the Minimum Wage Negotiation Committee would be constituted and commence meetings immediately.
However, the effective date of implementation remained unresolved.
The document stated, “It was agreed that the Minimum Wage Negotiation Committee would be constituted and commence meeting immediately. It should however be noted that there is a disagreement on the effective date of implementation.”
The disagreement leaves a key issue outstanding despite the commitment to begin negotiations without delay.
The national minimum wage became a major issue in 2024 when the Federal Government and organised labour negotiated an increase in the statutory minimum monthly wage from N30,000 to N70,000. The new rate was subsequently enacted into law through the National Minimum Wage Act.
The latest agreement refers to further discussions and the implementation date of the national minimum wage but does not provide details of the specific proposal under consideration or when the parties expect to conclude the negotiations.
The agreement indicates that while the government has approved some financial interventions, other workers’ demands remain subject to further negotiations, administrative verification or decisions by relevant government bodies.
“Trump… Please bring my son back to me. I am begging you for mercy.” And what Trump did when he heard those words… may bring tears to your eyes.
Her name was Malphine. She was 95 years old. A mother who had spent years waiting. Hoping. Praying. And one day… she finally got the chance to meet Trump. And stood before him. With all the strength she had left. And spoke the only words in her heart. Please. Bring my son home.
And Trump looked at this 95-year-old mother. Held her hands. And gave her a promise. I will bring your son home.
And Malphine held on to that promise. The way only a mother of 95 can hold on to something. When hope is all she has left.
Days went by. Weeks went by. And then one morning… the news finally arrived. Her son Marc was coming home. After years away. After years inside a foreign prison. After years of a mother waking up every single day, wondering whether she would ever get to hold her child again.
He stepped off that plane. And returned home. And when Marc’s feet finally touched American soil… Trump was there. In person. To welcome him. To embrace him. To look him in the eyes and say… welcome home. America has not forgotten you.
And in that single embrace…
Trump showed the world something that no speech and no rally could ever truly express: That America cares about its people. Wholeheartedly. Unconditionally. And never gives up fighting for them.
And today… I sat thinking about that story. And remembered every harsh word I had ever spoken about this man. Every judgment. Every doubt. Every moment I chose to look away. And I felt something I can hardly describe. Deep shame.
Because Malphine trusted Trump at 95 years old. With all the hope she had left. And he helped bring her son home.
Today… this is the side of Trump that so many people may never take the time to see.
Not the Trump in the headlines. Not the Trump on the rally stage. Just a man. Who listened to a 95-year-old mother pleading for her son. Worked to help answer her prayers. And personally showed up to welcome him home.
If this story touched your heart today… let God and every American reading this feel your .
And tell me honestly, in your own words — after reading this… can you still speak badly about President Trump? Because I truly find it difficult to do so. Not anymore. Not after hearing this story.
Sons of Liberty. Maga Movement
–Calls for NSCDC reforms, compensation for victims
By Son Tertsea, Abuja
Dehydration was cause of the death of the detained miners, the panel constituted to investigate the deaths of alleged illegal miners in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Niger State Command, has stated.
The chairman of the committee, Jonathan Kure, while presenting the report to the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, in Abuja on Tuesday, , said the miners suffered acute respiratory failure.
He also corrected the earlier reports that 37 miners died in custódy, saying 33 miners were confirmed dead.
He said the miners collapsed after calling for water and were ignored by the personnel of the NSCDC.
He added that the detention room was overcrowded and poorly ventilated.
He said the miners were illegally arrested and detained, stressing that they were all detained beyond the legally allowed period.
Part of the panel’s report called for a total reform of the NSCDC as well as solicited compensation for the victims.
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