Breaking: BBC Report Exposes Intersociety’s Fake ‘Christian Genocide’ Narrative in Nigeria

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has exposed the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), accusing the group of fabricating and exaggerating figures to push a false narrative of “Christian genocide” in Nigeria.

In a damning report by its Global Disinformation Unit, the BBC revealed that Intersociety and its allied organisations have for years circulated unverified statistics claiming that over 125,000 Christians were killed and 19,000 churches destroyed by jihadists and state-backed forces since 2009.

The BBC investigation found that these figures—widely cited by foreign lobbyists and Western conservative groups—were not backed by credible evidence or traceable data. When pressed, Intersociety reportedly failed to produce detailed records, names of victims, or verifiable sources for its sensational claims.

According to the report, the organisation’s exaggerated claims have been recycled across advocacy networks sympathetic to separatist and ethnic causes in Nigeria’s South-East, amplifying religious tensions and distorting the country’s complex insecurity crisis.

Independent data monitors such as the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) have long maintained that Nigeria’s violence is multi-layered—driven by crime, poverty, and governance failures—rather than a coordinated campaign against Christians.

Founded in 2008 as an election monitoring group in Onitsha, Intersociety has increasingly shifted its focus to religious persecution claims, often adopting alarmist rhetoric that aligns with the messaging of separatist movements.

The BBC warned that such misinformation could further poison Nigeria’s delicate inter-religious balance and mislead global policymakers into taking misguided positions on the country’s security situation.