{"id":177501,"date":"2025-09-03T13:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/boko-haram-attacks-muslims-and-christians-ali-ndume"},"modified":"2025-09-03T14:25:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:25:48","slug":"boko-haram-attacks-muslims-and-christians-ali-ndume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/boko-haram-attacks-muslims-and-christians-ali-ndume","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram Attacks Muslims and Christians Ali Ndume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The lawmaker representing Borno South Senatorial District, Ali Ndume, says Boko Haram terrorists are blind to faith, stressing that they attack Christians, Muslims as well as those who don\u2019t believe in either of the two religions.<\/p>\n<p>The Senator urged Nigerians, particularly the media, to avoid the temptation of profiling victims of the terror gang\u2019s atrocities and unite to defeat the insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>Ndume made the appeal in a statement he issued in Abuja on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal lawmaker was reacting to reports of weekend attacks in Ngoshe village, Gwoza Local Government Area and Mussa community in Askira-Uba Local Government Areas of Borno State.<\/p>\n<p>In the two separate incidents, the insurgents killed five farmers in Ngoshe and Mussa villages over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that of those killed, two were Muslims in Ngoshe while the three killed in Mussa were Christians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is unethical and unconscionable for any media outlet to drive the narrative that Christians are the targets of these attacks by the terror group in Borno, or anywhere in the North Eastern part of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe forces behind these mindless killings are blind to faith and tribe. We should avoid this dangerous profiling which can distract us. It has the tendency of doing us more harm,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The lawmaker representing Borno South Senatorial District, Ali Ndume, says Boko Haram terrorists are blind to faith, stressing that they attack Christians, Muslims as well as those who don\u2019t believe in either of the two religions. The Senator urged Nigerians, particularly the media, to avoid the temptation of profiling victims of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":177500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[5743,45,254],"class_list":["post-177501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-ali-ndume","tag-boko-haram","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Boko Haram Attacks Muslims and Christians Ali Ndume - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The lawmaker representing Borno South Senatorial District, Ali Ndume, says Boko Haram terrorists are blind to faith, str ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/boko-haram-attacks-muslims-and-christians-ali-ndume\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Boko Haram Attacks Muslims and Christians Ali Ndume\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The lawmaker representing Borno South Senatorial District, Ali Ndume, says Boko Haram terrorists are blind to faith, str ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/boko-haram-attacks-muslims-and-christians-ali-ndume\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-03T12:16:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-03T13:25:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1756893385.629448.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"956\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/boko-haram-attacks-muslims-and-christians-ali-ndume#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/boko-haram-attacks-muslims-and-christians-ali-ndume\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Boko Haram Attacks Muslims and Christians Ali Ndume\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-03T12:16:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-03T13:25:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/boko-haram-attacks-muslims-and-christians-ali-ndume\"},\"wordCount\":231,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/boko-haram-attacks-muslims-and-christians-ali-ndume#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1756893385.629448.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Ali ndume\",\"Boko Haram\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/boko-haram-attacks-muslims-and-christians-ali-ndume#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/boko-haram-attacks-muslims-and-christians-ali-ndume\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/boko-haram-attacks-muslims-and-christians-ali-ndume\",\"name\":\"Boko Haram Attacks Muslims and Christians Ali Ndume - 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