Nigeria’s violent extremism: A political headache at home, a diplomatic burden abroad
Newspapers with articles reporting US President Donald Trump’s message to Nigeria over the treatment of Christians hang at a newspaper stand in Ojuelegba, Lagos, Nigeria November 2, 2025.
US President Donald Trump is unpredictable – incendiary and sometimes conciliatory.
On February 7, 2023, for instance, the US Department of State announced that Nigeria no longer met the legal threshold for designation as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, overturning Trump’s 2020 decision in his first term to place Nigeria on the CPC blacklist.
