Nigeria, Jan. 29 -- In 2009, as the country surged to the end of the first decade of the new millennium, there was a mammoth shift in Nigeria's security dynamics and apparatus.

Suddenly, Nigeria found itself in places it was not ordinarily used to being, fighting enemies it was not used to. This seismic shift in Nigeria's security considerations was in no little measure all thanks to the terrorist sect, Boko Haram.

There are many theories about how the group evolved and resolved into arguably the most formidable enemy of the Nigerian state. Many Nigerians believe it was a carefully crafted invention of Nigeria's hidden enemies who needed an offensive against the Nigerian state for their aims from a group malleable to them. If this was t...