On 6 March 2022, West Africa Weekly reported on how President Buhari"s government has been influencing the publication of investigations carried out by the Nigerian branch of Amnesty International (AIN). In March 2022, the Australian-based Institute for Economics & Peace published its Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2022, with details about Nigeria on page 25, apparently overlooking the activities of Fulani militants. Frans Veerman, Managing Director of World Watch Research (WWR) gives some background information: "If the details reported in the West Africa Weekly are correct, Nigeria"s Department of State Services (DSS) has been seeking "˜collaboration" with AIN for some time, with the aim of preventing news about human rights abuses and security failure from getting into policy circles. Ex-AIN staff claim that, under Country Director Osai Ojigh (who took up her position in 2016), several research missions and press releases were cancelled, reports were watered down and a member of DSS joined the research staff. In February 2021 sensitive documents were removed from the AIN office through acts of burglary. If these reports are correct, it shows how easily governments can influence NGO reporting." Frans Veerman continues: "GTI relies on UK-based Dragonfly"s Terrorism Tracker (whose method-ology and definitions were published in August 2021). According to GTI 2022, there were 448 fatalities caused by terrorism in Nigeria in 2021, the lowest level since 2011. The report states that these killings were carried out by: ISWA[P] (36%), Boko Haram (8%), Indigenous People of Biafra (12%), Unknown and Other (44%). In comparison, WWR in cooperation with Nigerian partners listed 4,650 jihadist related killings of Christians alone (in the reporting period: 1 October 2020 - 30 September 2021, WWL 2022 Violence Article, March 2022), on top of which a further 1,330 Muslims lost their lives to jihadist activity (Observatory of Religious Freedom in Africa, December 2021). Apart from GTI"s very low statistics, what WWR cannot understand is the silence surrounding the attacks by Fulani militants which are occurring in many areas of Nigeria. This was a fact highlighted by GTI itself in earlier publications; indeed, GTI 2015 was the first to name Fulani militia attackers as the 4^th deadliest‚  terrorists in the world (Independent, 19 November 2015). It would seem that there has been political interference to remove references to Fulani terrorism. Both Christians and Muslims in the affected areas in Nigeria are being let down by such political decisions."