…Intersociety warns of Fulani jihadists’ plan to impose Sultanate, as attacks intensify across Africa
Nigeria is at the centre of a grave plot to wipe out Christianity and indigenous cultures by 2075, replacing them with a Sultanate system, a human rights organisation has warned
In a “facts-laden” special report, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) accused the country of “headquartering 22 Islamic terror groups in Africa seeking to obliterate Christianity and indigenous cultural heritage … with world jihad fund.”
Emeka Umeagbalasi, the organisation’s chairman, said these groups are using Nigeria as their safest haven to launch attacks aimed at exterminating an estimated 112 million Christians and 13 million adherents of traditional religions, especially in the South-East and South-South, within the next five decades.
A Trail of Blood and Ashes
Intersociety’s figures are staggering. Between January and early August 2025 alone, “7,087 Christians have been massacred and 7,800 abducted,” mostly from the two southern regions. Thousands of liberal Muslims have also been killed or detained in predominantly Muslim northern states.
Since 2009, the group claims, “185,009 defenceless Nigerians” have been killed — “125,009 Christians and 60,000 liberal Muslims”.
The violence has razed 19,100 churches, sacked over 1,100 Christian communities, seized 20,000 square miles of land, and abducted more than 600 Christian clerics, including “250 Catholic priests and 350 pastors.”
The displacement is on a scale akin to war: between 12 and 14 million Christians have been forced from their homes, with millions more fleeing for safety.
The report warns of the deliberate destruction of Nigeria’s indigenous identities, “especially the 3,475-year-old Igbo cultural heritage put in place since 1450BC.”
Global Condemnation — But ‘Too Little, Too Late’
Mr Umeagbalasi has called on Western powers to act decisively, saying: “The far-reaching punitive measures by US, EU, UK and Canadian leaders is not only belated and long overdue, but all the first-class Fulani Muslims and top Islamic clerics and leaders including those of the MACABAN must be banned from travelling to these religious freedom compliant and respecter countries.”
He also urged these nations to review “hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of annual humanitarian, democracy, military and development assistance to Nigeria”, insisting that aid must be tied to tangible human rights protections.
The United States has already condemned recent attacks. “The Trump administration condemns in the strongest terms this horrific violence against Christians,” the White House said, pledging to make religious freedom a key foreign policy priority.
On-the-Ground Horrors
In one of the latest massacres, Islamist Fulani militants stormed Bindi Ta-hoss, a predominantly Christian community in Riyom LGA, Plateau State, killing 27 Christians.
Survivors said many victims, including women and children, were burned alive inside a church. “I lost my wife and second daughter in the attack,” said survivor Solomon Sunday. “They were burned alive.”
Beyond Nigeria’s borders, jihadist violence is also surging. On 27 July in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, 49 Christians were hacked to death during prayers, allegedly by the ISIS-linked Allied Democratic Forces.
Human rights advocates say this is part of a wider “ethno-religious cleansing” campaign across sub-Saharan Africa.
‘People Are Being Killed Like Chickens’
In Plateau State, over 165 Christians have been killed in just four months, according to Christian Solidarity International.
“People are being killed like chickens, and nothing is being done,” lamented local youth leader D’Young Mangut.
Open Doors reports that more Christians are killed for their faith in Nigeria than in the rest of the world combined.
The past decade of jihadist violence has claimed some 150,000 lives and displaced more than 16 million Christians.
A Call for the World to Wake Up
Religious leaders warn that the violence is systematic and unchecked. Bishop Wilfred Anagbe, who lost 20 parishioners in a recent attack, accused militants of seeking to turn parts of Nigeria into an Islamic State. Henrietta Blyth, CEO of Open Doors UK and Ireland, issued a stark warning to the global community: “For too long, nobody has been talking about the horrific wholesale slaughter of Christians. The Western world needs to wake up and be outraged.”
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