US Lawmakers To Hold Fresh Hearing On Nigeria’s Insecurity

The United States Congress is about to carry one other listening to on insecurity in Nigeria, with lawmakers anticipated to look at assaults on Christian communities and the Federal Government’s efforts to guard residents within the Middle Belt.

The listening to, scheduled for Thursday, November 12, will likely be convened by the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa and chaired by Congressman Chris Smith.

Titled “One Year Later: Assessing Nigeria’s Efforts to Protect Christians and Secure the Middle Belt”, the session will assess the Nigerian authorities’s response to assaults, efforts to deliver perpetrators to justice and measures to guard weak communities.

According to a discover from Smith’s workplace, the listening to may also study the function of extremist teams within the violence and attainable steps the United States might take to handle the state of affairs.

The listening to will function two panels of witnesses, together with US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Frank Garcia and Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour Riley Barnes.

Other witnesses anticipated to look are Nina Shea of the Hudson Institute, Ryan Brown of Open Doors US and Oge Onubogu, Director of the Africa Programme on the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.

Smith stated the listening to can be his 14th congressional listening to on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria.

The growth comes amid renewed consideration from the Trump administration and American lawmakers to assaults on Christian communities in Nigeria.

In October 2025, US President Donald Trump redesignated Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern over alleged violations of non secular freedom.

The designation has since featured prominently in discussions between Nigerian and American officers, with the Federal Government sustaining that insecurity within the nation impacts folks of various spiritual backgrounds and shouldn’t be characterised solely as spiritual persecution.

The listening to will happen on the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington DC and will likely be streamed reside on-line.