4th November 2025, NewsOrient, News, Law And Society, Governance And Development
Photo Caption: Senator Ted Cruz of the United States of America.
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As the heat emanating from the fire lit by American President Donald Trump’s threat of a military attack on Nigeria continues to burn, attention is now being paid to how the allegation of Christians’ massacre in Nigeria actually began and how Trump and other Americans became so passionately involved in the matter.

It has been confirmed that the claim of mass killings of Christians in Nigeria did not actually start today. The cry has been long but grossly unresolved by the country’s authorities.

The matter even gathered multiple shades in Nigeria’s complex public gallery as reports, analysis and opinions on it differ sharply.

The matter however caught the attention of American President Donald Trump after a Senator in the United States of America, Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican activist, took it upon himself to intimate America and the world of his findings on the reports of the alleged “ongoing killings in Nigeria.”

NewsOrient reports that it was when Ted Cruz, the United States senator, alleged that Nigeria’s government was enabling a “massacre” of Christians, that America and Trump took special notice of the development.

Trump was so pissed by the revelations that he threatens military attack!

Like a burning bush during harmattan, the ripple effects of that allegation and threat have suddenly cut across America, Nigeria and the world as diplomats and world leaders are today reacting desperately to American President Donald Trump’s repeated threat to authorize decisive military operation in Nigeria to save other Christians still in danger and to tackle terrorism in Nigeria.

So, how did Senator Ted Cruz carry out this global advocacy?

First, he shared the claim on social media and then repeated it in Congress.

He pointedly accused Nigerian authorities “of ignoring” what he described as a “Christian genocide.”

“50,000 Christians have been killed since 2009, 2000 schools and 18,000 churches destroyed,” Cruz wrote on X.

He also accused Nigerian government of looking “the other way,” in the face of the development.

That was how the fire was lit.

Reacting to Senator Ted Cruz’s claims, U.S. President Donald Trump has redesignated Nigeria as “a Country of Particular Concern (CPC),” a label reported to be “reserved for governments accused of tolerating religious persecution.”

Trump did not stop at mere redesignation of Nigeria as a CPC; he clearly warned that America could “stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria” and “go in guns-a-blazing” if the killings continued.

But in Nigeria, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu dismissed the allegations as “unfounded and misleading.” He warned that Nigeria “will not accept lectures from those who seek to profit from our divisions.”

Who Is This American Senator Ted Cruz?

A lawyer, former Texas’ Solicitor-General and former Presidential aspirant in the United States of America who lost to Donald Trump, Senator Ted Cruz has often described himself as “a defender of religious freedom worldwide.”

Born Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz on December 22, 1970, in Calgary, Canada, to a Cuban father and an American mother, Cruz has earned wide reputation as a focused “conservative activist.”

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