{"id":76388,"date":"2025-10-09T15:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76388"},"modified":"2025-10-09T15:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:28:09","slug":"senate-dismisses-christian-genocide-claims-by-us-senator-ted-cruz-bill-maher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/09\/senate-dismisses-christian-genocide-claims-by-us-senator-ted-cruz-bill-maher\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Dismisses \u2018Christian Genocide\u2019 Claims by US Senator Ted Cruz, Bill Maher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Senate has dismissed allegations of a \u201cChristian genocide\u201d in Nigeria made by US Senator Ted Cruz and TV host Bill Maher, describing them as false and dangerous to national unity.<\/p>\n<p>At Thursday\u2019s plenary, lawmakers debated a motion sponsored by Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume (Borno South), titled \u201cUrgent Need to Correct Misconceptions on the Purported \u2018Christian Genocide\u2019 Narrative in Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senator Magatakarda Wamakko (Sokoto North), condemned the claims as \u201coutright misinformation aimed at destroying our nation,\u201d while Senator Sumaila Kawu (Kano South), warned they could inflame religious tensions and strain diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Jimoh Ibrahim (Ondo South), urged a review of Nigeria\u2019s counter-terrorism framework, stressing the need for strategic and intelligence-driven responses.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy followed Cruz\u2019s podcast remarks alleging systematic killings of Christians in Nigeria, a view echoed by Bill Maher and Van Jones.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has since refuted the claims, insisting the country\u2019s security challenges stem from terrorism and banditry, not religious persecution.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate resolved to collaborate with the executive arm to strengthen counter-terrorism efforts and correct what it termed a \u201cdistorted foreign narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; The Senate has dismissed allegations of a \u201cChristian genocide\u201d in Nigeria made by US Senator Ted Cruz and TV host Bill Maher, describing them as false and dangerous to national unity. At Thursday\u2019s plenary, lawmakers debated a motion sponsored by Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume (Borno South), titled \u201cUrgent Need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,1681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76390,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76388\/revisions\/76390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}