Barely seven days after Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu’s 10-minute visit to Plateau State, where at least 28 Christians were massacred in a Palm Sunday Islamic terrorist attack, fresh attacks have struck again. Islamic jihadist terrorists, on Easter Sunday, stormed Mbalom and other predominantly Christian communities in Gwer East LGA, Benue State, killing at least 10 people. A similar ill fate was recorded by two Christian churches — ECWA and St. Augustine Catholic Church — in Ariko, Kaduna, after Islamic terrorists stormed both churches murdering five worshippers, and abducting 31 others mid-service.

“Allahu Akbar” were the chants of last weekend’s bloodthirsty Islamic terrorists with visible facial identity who shot, hacked and macheted dozens of unarmed residents to death. The attack, which drew global attention, forced a visit of the state governor and the nation’s president to the state.

But Governor Caleb shielded himself from the grieving community with an armoured tank while President Tinubu left the Jos airport after 10 minutes for lack of electricity. Both leaders failed to outline clear efforts to unmask and prosecute the terrorists to the fullest extent of the law.

The pattern behind these attacks is neither new nor ambiguous. In 2023, a Christmas Eve Islamic terrorist attack in Plateau State left over 140 dead and 300 injured. The year before, Boko Haram Islamic terrorists killed Christians in Benue State on Christmas morning. During Lent and Easter of 2025, more than 240 Christians were massacred in attacks on villages in Plateau and Benue states, some mid-worship. According to Open Doors’ World Watch List 2026, 3,490 of the 4,849 Christians killed for their faith worldwide in the past year were in Nigeria — roughly 72 percent of all such murders globally.

While Nigerian authorities and a large chunk of pro-liberal Western media attempt to frame the killings as climate-induced farmer-herder disputes, the calendar pattern—killings on Christmas. Palm Sunday. Easter—makes the argument for an ongoing systematic Christian genocide irrefutable.

Justice for the victims of Jos, Kaduna, and Benue can never be fully served until the perpetrators of these attacks are unmasked, arrested, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But how likely is this, many ask, especially from a government that openly recruits Islamic Jihadist terrorists with high Christian massacre records into its military in the name of “repentance” and “rehabilitation?”