Over 19, 000 Nigerian Churches Sacked In Last !6 Years By Suspected Jihadists – Intersociety

Posted by Ignatius Okpara Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria Friday, September 26th, 2025

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) –  A quality rights group, International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law Intersociety, has alleged that an estimated  19,100 Churches were razed oregon sacked arsenic a effect of chaotic dispersed equipped spiritual conflicts perpetrated by suspected Islamic Jihadists crossed Nigeria successful the past sixteen years.

It said “apart from estimated 13,000 churches attacked, burned down oregon destroyed oregon violently unopen down betwixt July 2009 and December 2014, further 6,100 others are ;likely to person been mislaid to the country’s Islamic Jihadists and Jihad enablers since midyear of 2015 successful severely affected States.

The states are, “Taraba, Adamawa, Kebbi, Borno, Katsina, Niger, Kogi, Nasarawa, Plateau, Benue, Bauchi, Yobe, Southern Kaduna and Gombe. 

“It is besides statistically recovered that much than 1000 churches (“white garments churches”) belonging to members of Organization of the African Instituted Churches, a subdivision of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and allied others person besides been attacked, burned down oregon sacked”

“With astir of their attackers identified arsenic subject unit and constabulary ace squads oregon their associated task forces including unit of the country’s spy police, perpetrated utilizing “IPOB/ESN/Unknown Gunmen/Biafra counterinsurgency operations successful the East” arsenic a pretext.

The enactment arsenic accused the Islamic Jihadists of  razing, oregon Sacking estimated 1200 Churches Yearly, 100 Monthly, 3 daily”                  

This was contained successful a connection made disposable to newsmen  by the organization 

The connection was jointly signed by Intersociety Board Chairman and founder, Emeka Umeagbalasi, a Criminologist and Researcher, Barrister Obianuju Joy Igboeli, Human Rights Lawyer/Head, Dept. of Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, and Barr. Chidinma Udegbunam, a Human Rights Lawyer/Head, Dept. of Campaign and Publicity.

According to the group, the above  accusation was obtained “using severally gathered statistic from aggregate sources ...