Attacking Gates, attacking vaccines: How conflict, religion and conspiracy theories drive COVID-19 misinformation in Nigeria | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

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Since the beginning of the pandemic, local conspiracy theories connected to Bill Gates have circulated in Nigeria. Last year a false rumour by The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) spread online in Nigeria and internationally that Gates had bribed the Nigerian government $10 million to pass a law to test vaccines on children. False […]

Kaduna has a 50/50 division between Christians in the South and Muslims in the North. Indigenes of southern Kaduna who have rejected Islam and consequently come under attack from the dominant Hausa-Fulani Muslim community have turned to Christianity, which appeals both as a reprieve and alternative.

YWAM as an organisation does not consider itself right-wing evangelical and is pro-vaccination, with many of their missionaries already vaccinated. Mr Michael Kurams, one of the national leaders and base leader of Youth With A Mission, Jos, Plateau State, tells us that there are still some divergent personal views concerning healing and COVID-19.

Azzaman’s preachings are highly political, often centring on the issue of religious conflict. He is vocal and aggressive about the plight of Christians in Southern Kaduna who also identify with the middle belt. “The recent killing in Jos is a continuation of an entrenched agenda against the people of the Middle Belt and by extension the people of the South by the core North,” he said.

“You could see that when the Miango people, that is the Irigwe people of Bassa local government, were attacked for over 5 days with over 500 homes destroyed and almost 100 people mostly women and children massacred in the most barbaric manner imaginable, there was no word from anybody, from the federal government.

 

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