Report Ranks Nigeria As world ’s Third Most Terrorised Country

The 2015 Global Terrorism Index, GTI, has ranked Nigeria as
the third most terrorized country in the world up from the
fourth position it occupied last year.
Of
the
162
countries of the world that have been worst hit by terrorist
attacks, Nigeria, in the latest ranking, follows Iraq and
Afghanistan, who were ranked first and second respectively.
Pakistan and Syria are ranked fourth and fifth to complete
the top five most terrorised countries.
The only countries in Africa closer in ranking to Nigeria are
Somalia and Libya which occupied the eighth and ninth
positions respectively.
The report, released on November 16, 2015 by the Institute
for Economics and Peace, said the Islamist terror group in
Nigeria, Boko Haram, overtook ISIS in 2014 to become the
most deadly terrorist organization in the world.
The 2015 GTI report observed that Boko Haram, in 2014,
was also able to spread outside Nigeria to launch two
deadly attacks in neighbouring Cameroon, killing 530
people.
Cameroon, the report said, did not record any death from
terrorism between 2000 and 2013 until Boko Haram struck
in 2014.
It was however made clear that although the GTI report was
published in November 2015, the data used in producing it
were gathered last year.