On 25 February 2014, fifty-nine boys were killed at the Federal Government College of Buni Yadi in Yobe State, Nigeria.

[2][1] The Federal Government College is a boarding school located in Buni Yadi, a town in Yobe State, Nigeria.

Militant groups have increasingly focused on targeting civilians since May 2013 when President Goodluck Jonathan authorized the military to eliminate the resistance.

In late February, the government shut the Nigeria–Cameroon border in an attempt to keep militants from launching attacks in Nigeria and then fleeing into Cameroon.

[4] The militant group Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is sinful", has targeted schools for violent attacks on a number of occasions.

[5] Abubakar Shekau, suspected leader of Boko Haram, issued a video statement in mid-February 2014 promising to continue the group's campaign against western values and threatening to broaden the scope of attacks.

[6] President Goodluck Jonathan called the Federal Government College attack "callous and senseless murder ... by deranged terrorists and fanatics who have clearly lost all human morality and descended to bestiality".

[6] Boko Haram is suspected to have started the attack as part of its fight "to create an Islamic state" in Nigeria's mainly Muslim north.