“The northwest’s problem is not ungoverned spaces as wonks like to say, but spaces governed by criminal sovereigns.” - James Barnett Bandits, Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād (JAS), or simply referred to as Boko Haram, the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP), Jama’atu Ansarul Muslima fi Biladis Sudan (Ansaru). They constitute an alphabet soup of terror groups in the business of stone-hearted killings and wanton destruction of properties across the length and breadth of northern Nigeria. So why should anyone waste precious time trying to make what may seem like...