Once again, the merchants of moral sermon from across the Atlantic have mounted their pulpit, wagging fingers and quoting scripture about “religious freedom” in Nigeria, as if Washington suddenly found a conscience between its drone strikes and regime-change escapades.
Now, Nigeria is being told it’s on the CPC blacklist, accused of “religious persecution.” Oh, how noble! The same America that flattened Iraq for oil under the guise of “Weapons of Mass Destruction” and bombed Libya into the Stone Age in the name of “humanitarian intervention” now wants to save Nigerian Christians from extinction. What a beautiful lie dressed in diplomacy and perfumed with hypocrisy.
The Real Agenda: Gunning for China, Not Saving Souls
Let’s stop pretending this is about faith. Washington’s sudden interest in Nigeria’s “religious crisis” is simply the newest chapter in its long, desperate attempt to reassert dominance in Africa, a continent China now quietly leads in trade, infrastructure, and technology.
The United States was humiliatingly booted out of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso, its troops told to pack up their democracy manuals and leave. Meanwhile, Beijing built roads, refineries, and railways. So what’s left? Narrative warfare.
They couldn’t stop the Belt and Road Initiative, so they’re now preaching about the “Belt of Terror.” They lost Africa’s minerals to Chinese diplomacy, so they’re back with the Bible and sanctions. The “CPC blacklist” is nothing but a political cudgel, a way to paint Nigeria as a failed state ripe for intervention, surveillance, and control.
Nigeria’s Blood Is Not a Religion
Let’s be brutally honest, the mindless killings in Nigeria spare no one. Christians are slaughtered in their sleep, Muslims are butchered in mosques, and even unbelievers are caught in the crossfire.
To the terrorists, faith doesn’t matter, only profit does. They don’t quote the Quran or Bible when they sell stolen gold and lithium from Zamfara and Nasarawa to foreign buyers. Their only gospel is greed.
So when foreign analysts twist Nigeria’s pain into a religious persecution story, they insult the dead and blindfold the living. The insecurity crisis is not holy war, it’s dirty business. A multi-billion-dollar enterprise of arms trade, illegal mining, and political complicity.
The Hypocrisy of the “Saviours”
It’s amusing how America measures morality.
If you trade in dollars and obey Washington’s commandments, you’re a “strategic democracy.”
If you tilt toward BRICS, explore yuan settlements, or invite Chinese tech firms, suddenly you’re “persecuting minorities.”
They quote the Fraser Mining Index to downplay Nigeria’s resource value, as if lithium, coltan, uranium, and gold deposits care about bureaucratic rankings. Afghanistan wasn’t “attractive” either until the U.S. discovered its $1 trillion lithium deposits.
It’s the same imperial reflex, repackaged for modern consumption: control the narrative, justify the intrusion, seize the advantage.
The Final Truth
America’s moral outrage is not about Nigerians, it’s about Nigerian minerals. It’s not about “freedom of religion”, it’s about freedom of access to strategic resources. It’s not about human rights, it’s about geo-rights.
And as the old Western order continues to crumble, Nigeria must stop being the laboratory for global propaganda experiments. We must mourn our dead, Christians, Muslims, and unbelievers alike, and reject both the terrorists who kill us and the foreign powers who exploit our grief.
The world doesn’t need more saviours in camouflage or suits. It needs honest partners. And America, sadly, hasn’t been one for a long time.
Ultimately
The greatest threat to Nigeria isn’t from those who shoot bullets, it’s from those who shoot narratives. Every war begins with a story. And this one, like Iraq and Libya before it, begins with another Washington bedtime story, that they care about your faith.
They don’t. They care about your future lithium reserves.
By Hon. Chima Nnadi-Oforgu
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