Journal of Data Analysis and Information Processing, 2015, 3, 168-174 Published Online November 2015 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/jdaip http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jdaip.2015.34017 How to cite this paper: Kolade, O., Olayinka, A.A., Sunday, F., Adesoji, O. and Olubusola, I.F. (2015) Detection of Stego-Ima- ges in Communication among the Terrorist Boko-Haram Sect in Nigeria. Journal of Data Analysis and Information Pro- cessing, 3, 168-174. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jdaip.2015.34017 Detection of Stego-Images in Communication among the Terrorist Boko-Haram Sect in Nigeria Owoeye Kolade 1 , Ajayi Adedoyin Olayinka 2 , Fadugba Sunday 1 , Obayomi Adesoji 1 , Isinkaye Folasade Olubusola 1 1 Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria 2 Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria Received 9 August 2015; accepted 21 November 2015; published 24 November 2015 Copyright © 2015 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract Nigeria was listed as a part of terrorist states by United States of America as a result of Islamic group (Boko Haram Sect) attacks and other activities in the nation. It has also been discovered that the group employs “steganographic” schemes as a secure means for transmitting their hidden information to each other via Internet and social networks. The group has killed thousands of people since their increased insurgency in July, 2009. These challenges have affected the nation’s foreign policies, political and social economic developments. This research addresses the chal- lenges by employing forensic technique using blind steganalysis approach to detect the presence of the hidden messages in images. Image Quality Metric is employed for extracting the features, and logistic regression is trained as the classifier to predict the stego-images. We show the effec- tiveness of the method by conducting test and analysis with 319 images varying in size and style. The result shows that the performance of the method is better than other steganalysis methods. Keywords Stego, Staganalysis, Logistic Regression, Boko-Haram Sect 1. Introduction The awareness of insecurity in Nigeria has placed an increasing focus on the need for security of life and prop- erties. According to [1], terrorists are now communicating using steganographic means via the Internet. In Nige-