Lead Pastor of The Transforming Church, Reverend Sam Oye, has cautioned the Federal Government against seeking foreign military assistance to tackle insecurity, warning that adopting what he described as a “foreign interventionist” approach could destabilise the country and complicate its security challenges.

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‘… move an aircraft carrier group into the Gulf of Guinea and … deploy fighters and perhaps long-range bombers to conduct strikes’

Nigerians were jolted last week after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to invade the country over what he called a “Christian genocide.” Trump’s fiery remarks, made during a rally in Texas, accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of failing to protect Nigeria’s Christian population from systematic killings in the North and Middle Belt.

Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State has rejected claims suggesting that Christians in Nigeria’s South-East are victims of a religious genocide, describing such assertions as false and misleading.