Nigeria now ranks 2nd most terrorised country in the world

Jihad Analytics (JA) – a report by a global terrorism research/analysis group – has placed Nigeria as the second most terrorised/attacked country in the world between Iraq and Syria.

The research organization, which speciallizes in collating data on terrorists’ activities worldwide, in the report released on Friday, disclosed that in its half year findings made between January to June 2022, Nigeria recorded 305 attacks, while Iraq recorded 337 terrorists’ attacks to emerge first. Syria had 142 terrorist’s attacks, placing it in third position.

The JA report, which noted that it relied on global and cyber open-source intelligence and data, attributed most of the attacks to the Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorist group.

However, the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has consistently reiterated its resolve to tackle insecurity in the country, and put an end to insurgency.

The presidency, on several occasions, had announced how the troops had decimated, degraded and neutralised terrorists in different parts of the country.

The Report emerged at a time the Federal government claimed to have spent over N11 trillion as security budget since coming into office in 2015, which included the acquisition of several Tucano fighter jets to crush the terrorists.

A breakdown of yearly budgetary allocations to the Ministry of Defence revealed that in 2015, security got a total budget of N626.39 billion.

In 2016, the allocation rose to N978.72billion in 2016, N1.12trillion in 2017, N1.26trillion by 2018, N1.33trillion in 2019, N1.71trillion in 2020, and N1.87trillion in 2021, while in 2022, the budgetary allocation was increased to N2.27trillion, which was an increase of 262.39 per cent from the initial allocation in 2015.