On Friday, Trump said he was designating Nigeria as a "country of particular concern," a legal designation from the U.S. State Department for countries "responsible for particularly severe violations of religious freedom," with Trump saying that "Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria."

Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is pushing back after his U.S. counterpart designated the West African country “a country of particular concern” for allegedly failing to rein in the persecution ...