Nigerian consent to US Military jet attacks in Sokoto State, north of Lagos follows Trump earlier threat to end Aid sent to this W. African nation (220 million)

16+ Tomahawk missiles fired from a Navy

ship in the Gulf of Guinea striking camps of ISIS or

Islamic State insurgents/allies

in Tangaza in Sokoto State

ground assessment will be needed in the future

among the Lakurawa

in an area widely populated by Muslim residents . . .

NIGERIAN officials had

denied the truth to the claim that they were

"allowing the slaughter of Christians" 

NYTimes.com/2025/

world/Africa/trump-nigeria-military-christians.html

world/Africa/trump-isis-strikes-nigeria-christians-facts.html

Christmas Night

8 p.m. Eastern Time

next day (Nigerian time in

other hemisphere)

washingtonpost.com/

"US Strikes ISIS in Nigeria after

Trump 'warning'/rhetoric about Christian

killings" POTUS claimed a "genocide" was going on

12/25/2025 online article