A surge from the forest

That Boko Haram, a Nigerian based terrorist group, has been terrorizing every part of Northern Nigeria is no longer a new phenomenon as lives and properties are being lost on a daily basis to the insurgent's sinister activity. What is new however, is the recent onslaught of the terrorist group. In the time past, it had the habit of hiding in the forest known as 'Sambisa' from where it perpetrated its malevolence acts. However, it appears as if the carnages and horror the country has seen in recent times are not enough as the insurgent group, once believed to be hiding its face in the forest of Sambisa, is now tending towards separatist expansionism as it is laying claim to the control of some parts of the country, engaging the military in what is rapidly becoming a conventional warfare.