Frank Wolf: “I think we need to make sure that they are participants.”

Despite our analysis and recommendation, the State Department has only recognized the severity of the religious freedom violation in Nigeria twice.

We are not affording them the same protections when they're clearly, clearly an attacked religious minority.

Our conclusion from that visit and many others, the ongoing research continues to be that the government of Nigeria is perpetrating and tolerating a systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of freedom of religion or belief.

The profound disagreement USCIRF with the State Department's decision not to designate Nigeria as a country of particular concern.