 Nigeria has moved to sixth in the latest global terrorism index, GTI, following successes in the fight against Boko Haram insurgents. The country dropped two places from fourth, a position it has occupied since 2017. The GTI published by an independent and non-profit think tank, the Institute for Economics and Peace IEP, indicated that Nigeria, Syria and Somalia are the only nations among the ten most affected by terrorism to get an improved score from 2020 to 2021. Aholding to the report, there was a decline in the number of terrorism-related deaths in Nigeria. It attributed this to the deaths of Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shikal and the federal government's effort at the feet of the group.