Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in March. The group killed 185 people during an attack at the same market in Kano in January 2012.
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A blast struck a market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Yola on Tuesday evening, killing 32 people and wounding 80 others, both the Red Cross and National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said.
The twin suicide bombing comes only a day after another attack in the northeastern town of Yola killed at least 32 people.
The Institute of Economics and Peace at the University of Maryland has released its Global Terrorism Index 2015 and it shows that Boko Haram was responsible for more deaths than any other militant group in the world previous year.
At least 105 soldiers from the battalion and two senior officers were feared “missing” following the attack on Wednesday, security sources said. In late October, a suicide bombing attack at a mosque in Yola killed 27 people. Nigeria’s military says troops freed 338 captives, mainly children and women, in raids on Boko Haram camps in northeast Nigeria.
“President Buhari reassures Nigerians that his administration is very much determined to wipe out Boko Haram in Nigeria and bring all perpetrators of this heinous crime against humanity to justice”, presidential spokesman Garba Shehu said.
In comparison, ISIS is believed to have killed 6,073 people in the same period.
Nigeria-based Islamist militant group Boko Haram was known to be responsible for 6,644 of those deaths, more than any other terrorist group, the report found. Seventy-seven percent of the group’s victims were private citizens.
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?
Buhari on Wednesday ordered the arrests of several former high-ranking officials allegedly linked to fraudulent and fictitious arms contracts totaling $5.4 billion, one of his advisers, Femi Adesina, said in a statement.
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Mr Buhari has set his military commanders a deadline of the end of next month to crush the rebels, who have increasingly taken to attacking border areas of neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon.
