(Enugu-Nigeria, Sunday August 9, 2026): Joint International Report By Nigeria’s Intersociety And United States-Based Ekwenche Research Institute On Political And Armed State Actor And Armed Non-State Actor Ethno-Religious Persecution Of Defenseless Igbo Land South-East Judeo-Christians And Wanton Attacks On Their Territories And Properties Using Structural, Cultural And Physical Violence

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Under Political And Armed State Actors In South-East: Igbo Land Judeo-Christian Parents Found To Have Shunned Military Enlistment Of Their Children Because More Than 6000 Families Still Looking For Their Beloved Sons And Daughters Gone Missing Under Nigerian Military Since Jan 2021-July 2026-As Thousands Of Others Remain Untraced And Un-Accounted For Between August 2015 And Dec 2019-To The Extent That No Fewer Than 400 Remained Abducted, Controversially Labelled And Un-Accounted For In Seven Months Of Jan-July 2026: A Special Case-Study Of Widespread Abductions, Disappearances, Shootings At Close Range Outside Circumstantial Evidence, Extrajudicial And Other Unlawful Killings-Using False Labelling, Discriminatory Law Enforcements, Mass Criminalization And Class Stigmatization, Ethno-Religious Profiling And Flawed Trials At ‘WAWA’ Military Cantonment And Other Life-Threatening Secret Custodial Facilities In Northern Nigeria

Under Armed Non-State Actor And Political And Armed State Actor Conspiracy: Igbo Land South-East Found To Be Bleeding Under Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen-Led Secret And Open Terror Attacks In Conspiracy With And Inaction Of South-East Governments And The Region’s Military, Police And Intelligence Formations-Using False Denials, Cover-Ups, Apportionment Of Blames On Wrong Parties And Suppression Of Facts-To Deny Responsibility Since 2015-With Estimated 7000 Judeo-Christian Lives Lost Since April 2016 And 200 Others Estimated To Have Been Ambushed, Abducted And Killed On Roadways And Forests In Seven Months Of January-July 2026: A Case-Study Of Ezeagu And Eha-Amufu Communities’ Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen Mayhem And Circumstantial Complicity Of Enugu Government, Enugu State Police Command And Soldiers Of 82 Division Of The Nigerian Army-Enugu

IDP Camps of 16 Isi-Uzo Christian Communities Of Enugu State Sacked And Uprooted By Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen Since 2022 Till Date

Under Armed Non-State Actor Religious Genocide: Islamic Jihadists Killed 299 Defenceless And Peaceful Christians And Abducted 213 Others Across Nigeria In July 2026 Alone; Killed 150 Mostly Indigenous Hausa Muslims, Attacked And Sacked Four Churches, Abducted Two Catholic Seminarians, Killed A Catholic Reverend Father And Killed Or Abducted Four Pentecostal Pastors

Islamic Jihadists Killed 299 Peaceful Christians & Abducted 213 Others In July 2026: According to the summary of statistics, tracked, collected and archived by our Researchers and Investigators, at least 299 defenceless and peaceful Christians were killed by Islamic Jihadists in Nigeria particularly in Benue, Plateau, Southern Kaduna, Adamawa, Niger, Taraba, among others; during which no fewer than 213 others were abducted. Available statistics further estimated that 150 mostly indigenous Hausa Muslims were killed in the same month. At least, six churches came under jihadist attack, two Catholic Seminarians abducted in Enugu and Kogi, one Catholic Priest killed and four Pastors killed or abducted. The breakdown showed that Benue State recorded the highest number of jihadist killings with 65 Christian deaths, during which 30 were abducted; followed by Southern part of Kaduna State where 58 Christians were killed and 70 others abducted, making it the State with the highest number of abducted Christians in July 2026.

Plateau State came third with 55 Christian deaths and not less than 10 abducted Christians; followed by Adamawa State with 35 Christian deaths, Niger with 30 Christian deaths, Southern Kebbi with 6 Christian deaths and 18 abducted Christians. Southern Borno also recorded 20 abducted Christians, Kogi 20 abducted Christians and Edo 20 abducted Christians. There are also at least 40 Christian deaths arising from Jihadist attacks in other parts of the country including in the South-East. The above figures also included “dark figures of crime”. Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and Jihadist Fulani Bandits are also found to have taken the lead with at least 70% culpability. In the end, our Researchers and Investigators also made findings showing that average of ten Christian deaths per day and seven abducted Christians per day were recorded.

In Service to Humanity,

For: International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law-Intersociety, Nigeria

· Emeka Umeagbalasi, Criminologist and Graduate of Security Studies

Lead Researcher and Head of Intersociety Nigeria

· Chidinma Evangeline Udegbunam, Barrister-at-Law

Head, Department of Campaign and Publicity, Intersociety Nigeria

· Obianuju Joy Igboeli, Barrister-at-Law

Head, Department of Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Intersociety Nigeria

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For: Ekwenche Research Institute & Organization, Chicago, Illinois, United States

· Prof Justin Akujieze

President and Chairman of the Board

Ekwenche Research Institute, USA

Contact: +1 (773) 206-9401

· Mazi Luke Nwannunu

Secretary and Chair, Finance Committee

Ekwenche Research Institute, USA

Contact: +1 (773) 294-1997

· Rev. Father Emeka Nwachukwu

Chair, Education and Spirituality Committee

Ekwenche Research Institute, USA

Contact: +1(630) 835-4918

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