Dozens Killed in Nigerian Market Bombing That Points to Boko Haram

The report added that just two terrorist groups, ISIS and Boko Haram, are now jointly responsible for 51 per cent of all global fatalities from claimed terrorist attacks.

“Hand in hand, we will rid our land of terrorism”, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari said in a tweet.

Last Friday, President Buhari traveled to Yola, the capital city of the northeastern state of Adamawa, where he visited Nigerian troops and told them that he believed Boko Haram “are very close to defeat”.

“Boko Haram, which pledged its allegiance to ISIL as the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) in March 2015, has become the world’s deadliest terrorist group, causing 6,644 deaths compared to ISIL’s 6,073”, it said.

On Wednesday afternoon, two female suicide bombers killed 11 people in a market in the northern city of Kano, according to the BBC.

The extremist group, which has killed thousands of people in the region, is accused of kidnapping over 200 schoolgirls from Chibok in eastern Nigerian state of Borno previous year.

The twin suicide bombing comes only a day after another attack in the northeastern town of Yola killed at least 32 people.

“There is no doubt that the arrests of the suspected terrorists are important milestones which show the synergy of effort in the fight against terrorism and insurgency in Nigeria among the security agencies and the public”.

A more deadly attack in November 2014 killed more than 100 people at the central mosque.

But according to the Kano Command Police Commissioner, Muhammad Musa Katsina, only three people died with eight injured.

Analysts say Nigeria’s military is too thin to hold ground and that as it takes one area, the extremists slip into another in the vast arid spaces dotted by forests in the northeast.

Dasuki, a retired army colonel, denies the accusations.

Facebook activated its “Safety Check” feature following Tuesday’s blast, after users said it seemed that deaths elsewhere didn’t matter as much as the deaths in Paris.

Dasuki said he was proud that in the final months under his watch Nigeria’s military ousted Boko Haram from its self-declared Islamic caliphate.