Nigeria, Feb. 19 -- Nigeria has been fighting terrorism for more than a decade now. The country has managed to keep the guns blazing, if only barely. The price of a war that is for the soul of Nigeria is quite heavy for a country that had known relative peace. Communities and families have been turned upside down, with livelihoods uprooted.

As Nigeria has fought an assortment of well-drilled and well-oiled non-state actors, a common question on the lips of many Nigerians has been, who is doing the drilling and the oiling?

Boko Haram, the umbrella terrorist organization fighting Nigeria for more than ten years now started as a sore in Maiduguri the Borno State Capital. This was before it exploded into a full case of hives. Residents and ...