The Islamic State wasn’t the deadliest terror group last year

Meanwhile, the death toll from Tuesday night’s suicide bomb attack in Yola, the Adamawa State capital has risen to 34, with 85 other people seriously injured and undergoing treatment in different hospitals in the state.

“Thirty-two people were killed and 80 have been injured”, a Red Cross official who asked not to be named told Reuters.

The US State Department on Wednesday condemned the “horrific bombings” that hit two cities in northern Nigeria and killed dozens. Since May, when the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari took office, the group has killed over 1,000 people.

No organization has yet claimed credit for the attack, but it is consistent with the behavior and within the territory of Boko Haram, a militant Islamic group that has been responsible for thousands of deaths in Nigeria since 2003.

Media reports had indicated that the Army may have lost about 150 of its men to an attack by Boko Haram insurgents in Gudunbali, Borno State.

According to reporting by the BBC, Boko Haram, which has drew worldwide attention for kidnapping Nigerian schoolgirls past year, forces young girls to become suicide bombers.

Usman, a colonel, said a closer look at the suspect showed he was number 28 among suspected Boko Haram terrorists declared wanted by the Nigerian Army last month. The report documented acts amounting war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Boko Haram, drawing on 377 interviews, including 189 with victims and eye-witnesses to attacks by Boko Haram; 22 with local officials; 22 with military sources; and 102 with human rights defenders.

On Wednesday, a new report found Boko Haram is the world’s deadliest extremist group.

This week, Mr Buhari accused the previous administration’s national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki, of pocketing more than $2bn that had been allocated for warplanes, helicopters and other military gear to fight Boko Haram. The group narrowly beat out ISIS, which was responsible for 6,073 deaths by terrorism in 2014.

Why aren’t we seeing an avalanche of stories of this massacre on prime time news or on the front pages of all the major newspapers?

“If they can recruit from Boko Haram they will recruit from those groups for operations in the United States”, says Wuco.