US Nigeria Law Group

08/29/2026

A Roman Catholic priest from Nigeria who’d been preparing to leave the U.S. over a visa issue died last week, according to church officials in Mass.

08/28/2026

HUDSON INSTITUTE EVENT:
Nigeria’s Insecurity & the US Response - Lawyer Ogebe, top U.S. players speak at Washington think tank

-Tinubu was with us protesting govt 30 yrs ago now his govt is sponsoring protesters against activists

-Things have changed - advocates used to protest govt, now govt protests advocates

-Tinubu changed Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense to Christians after CPC but the most important personnel change should be Christian VP

-NSA & AGF tried in Jackson pardon state cases but 8 Christian kids held by Kano still

-Keep US troops till after elections

-Fulani attacks are 222 years of jihad in world’s longest war

08/28/2026

28
August 2026
IN-PERSON EVENT
Nigeria’s Crisis: Islamist Terrorists, Violent Nomadic Herders, “Bandit” Gangs, and the US Foreign Policy Response
FRIDAY (6p.m. Nigeria)

28
August 2026
FRIDAY 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

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IN-PERSON EVENT
Speakers:
Matthew Boyse Hudson Institute

Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Father
The Rev. Fr. Remigius Ihyula
Former Director of the Catholic Makurdi Diocese Commission on Justice, Development and Peace, Benue state, Nigeria
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Joshua Meservey
Senior Fellow
Amb Nagy
Ambassador Tibor Nagy
Former Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs; Former U.S. Ambassador to Guinea
Ogebe
Emmanuel Ogebe
Nigerian-American Human Rights Attorney
Judd Saul
Judd Saul
Director, Equipping the Persecuted
Greg Simpkins
Greg Simpkins
Former Staff Director, House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa; Co-director, Habari Network; Podcast Host, Real Talk Habari
Nina Shea

Nina Shea
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Religious Freedom
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More Christians are killed for their faith in Nigeria than in any other country in the world. On October 31, 2025, President Donald Trump designated Nigeria a country of particular concern under the International Religious Freedom Act for having “engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom.”

Join Hudson Institute and the Ben Franklin Fellowship for a two-panel discussion examining United States policy as it confronts the crisis of terror in Nigeria. The event will feature Senior Fellows Matt Boyse, Joshua Meservey and Nina Shea, as well as Greg Simpkins, former staff director of the US House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa.

The first panel will cover the current state of play in Nigeria, including the upcoming 2027 national elections and possible considerations for US policymakers. The second panel will analyze policies to address militia attacks that freely target Christians.

To request an RSVP, please reach out to Nico Huergo at [email protected].

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08/28/2026

08/26/2026

in 2000, then President Bill Clinton’s visit to Nigeria featured a historic address to the Nigerian National Assembly. An unprecedented moment in U.S.–Nigeria relations that reinforced support for democratic governance and stronger bilateral cooperation.

this marked the first time a U.S. president spoke to Nigeria’s legislature during an official visit.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0uzicpb1Is

08/26/2026

Animal farm…

Catholic Bishops were told in the Villa that all is fair in politics. So why Did Richard Nixon resign as US President for covering up Wtergate wiretapping. But the statement speaks to a mindset. And mindsets are everything.

They depict a worldview. Germans sum it up well in the word Weltanschauung, a complete philosophy of life. As what leadership does most is set the tone of culture we can see the effect of that mindset in the pervasive impunity in the land.

My personal experience shows how the citizen in Lagos, for example, is sandwiched between the terrōr of area boys, LASTMA, and thieves.

A driver who drops me at the airport at 7am on Sunday experiences engine overheating near Obalende. Within minutes he is str!pped of every kobo on him by area boys within watchful gaze of LASTMA officials near their Sura Centre, As the area boys moved on LASTMA moves in, threaten and then tows the car, extorting nearly 100k, most of which they refused to offer a receipt for.

This is how social order collapses when impunity reigns.

08/26/2026

BREAKING: Bauchi Police Release 16-Year-Old Jennifer To Parents After Alleged Forced Conversion To Islam

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08/26/2026