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….Calls for Global Action to Prevent Looming Genocide in Nigeria

The Ekwenche Research Institute, a United States–based human rights and research organization, has endorsed the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety)’s 16-page response to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) over its coverage of religious persecution in Nigeria.
The group also welcomed the recent resignation of BBC Director-General Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness, following what it described as “strong accusations of serious and systemic bias” within the corporation’s African Section and Global Disinformation Unit.

In a strongly worded global statement issued on Wednesday, November 12, 2025, and jointly signed by Dr. Mbajiogu Akujieze, President of the Ekwenche Research Organization; Mazi Luke Nwannunu, Secretary and Chairman of the Ekwenche Genocide Committee; and Rev. Pastor Emeka Nwachukwu, Chairman of Ekwenche Education and Culture, the Institute accused the BBC of “institutional bias” and “media reportorial compromise” that undermined objectivity and fairness in its reporting on Nigeria’s complex human rights crises.

According to the statement, “Nemesis recently caught up with them when they doctored President Trump’s recent key public speeches and twisted as well as misrepresented Intersociety’s response to BBC’s enquiries on its reports on religious persecution and killings against Christians and Muslims across Nigeria compiled for years since 2010.”

The Institute alleged that certain BBC staff members in its African Section and Global Disinformation Unit “became tools of misinformation and promoters of government falsehood using UK citizens’ public funds.” It specifically called for “a mass sack in the entire BBC,” naming Ms. Olaronke Alo, Miss Chiamaka Enendu, and Ms. Ijeoma Ndukwe as those responsible for “an odd job aimed at discrediting Intersociety’s detailed research reports.”

“The BBC’s African Section and its Global Disinformation Unit have become symbols of double standards and media manipulation,” the statement read. “We at Ekwenche welcome the resignation of the two BBC top executives, but the corporation needs total overhaul and accountability for its institutional biases, especially in relation to African human rights reporting.”

The Ekwenche Research Institute, founded in 1998 and based in Chicago, Illinois, affirmed that its independent investigations corroborated the accuracy and credibility of Intersociety’s work on religious and ethnic persecution in Nigeria. The group said its endorsement followed extensive comparative analysis of reports by international agencies, human rights bodies, and independent research organizations.

“We, the Ekwenche Research Institute, having independently researched and made authentic and accurate findings, hereby endorse as credible all statements and reports by Intersociety on the incessant killings of Christians and other ethnic and religious minorities in Nigeria,” the group stated. “Having extensively studied the Intersociety reports and compared their findings with other credible research, we strongly endorse them, especially the group’s recent works on religiously related attacks in Nigeria following a carefully planned national Islamization project to turn Nigeria into a homogenous Islamic Sultanate.”

Ekwenche also revealed that its collaboration with Intersociety dated back to 2017 when it sought evidence for the prosecution of alleged crimes against humanity in Eastern Nigeria. The documents obtained from Intersociety, it said, were forensically studied and certified by its U.S.-based lawyers, Bruce Fein and Bruce W. DelValle, PLLC, leading to a criminal complaint filed at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Geneva in 2019.

The statement emphasized that Bruce Fein, a distinguished international lawyer, had once served as an Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1982.

Ekwenche condemned the continued religious and ethnic killings in Nigeria, which it said had “assumed genocidal proportions” since 2015. It accused successive Nigerian governments of “bringing foreign Jihadist Fulani fighters into the country” and “failing to protect defenseless Christian populations and other minorities.” The Institute said the evidence of atrocities “is overwhelming and publicly documented.”

“Nigeria, once envisioned as a beacon of unity and prosperity in Africa, has become a deeply fractured and dysfunctional entity,” Ekwenche lamented. “The promises of Reconciliation, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction after the Biafran War were abandoned, plunging the region into decades of systemic leadership failure and institutional decay.”

The statement identified what it called “four major institutional collapses” that have rendered the Nigerian state untenable — a compromised judiciary, a corrupt and predatory economy, an ineffective legislature, and a rising tide of religious radicalization.

“The Nigerian judiciary, which should be the final protector of constitutional order, has been deeply compromised by executive interference and corruption,” the group asserted. “The legislature has descended into complacency and corruption, while the economy has become a tool for elite exploitation. Worst of all, the imposition of Sharia law in about 12 to 13 northern states has unilaterally overthrown Nigeria’s secular constitution.”

The Institute warned that these systemic failures and religiously motivated actions have created an existential crisis for the Nigerian federation.

“Nigeria’s territorial and political unity, constructed without the genuine consent of its constituent nations, has long outlived its viability,” the statement said. “The crisis is not merely one of bad governance but of fundamental incompatibility within a forced union driven by ethno-religious radicalism and hegemonic dominance.”

Consequently, Ekwenche called upon the international community, advanced democracies, and global human rights institutions to intervene constructively and help facilitate “a peaceful process of self-determination” for Nigeria’s diverse peoples through internationally monitored referenda or negotiated restructuring.

“We ask not for interference but for facilitation and being our brother’s keeper,” the statement appealed. “The world stood for the rights of peoples in East Timor, South Sudan, and Kosovo — why can’t they now stand for the peoples of Nigeria?”

The organization further called for Nigeria to be designated “a Country of Particular Concern” and urged the international blacklisting of entities promoting religious extremism and violence, such as the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), the Fulani Nationality Movement (FUNAM), and their alleged political and military sponsors.

Ekwenche concluded its statement with a passionate appeal for peace, justice, and accountability, describing its intervention as “an early warning before it is too late.”

“We reject violence and seek a future where all people within the current territory of Nigeria can live in dignity, free to determine their own destiny under governments they freely choose,” the statement concluded. “Nigeria must be recovered from its present state of nature — a land where the lives of cows are elevated above the lives of human beings.”

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