A Qur'anic verse instructs us that for every hardship there is relief. All people of faith in Yobe and Borno states had taken solace in this eternal, divine assurance during the bitterest and most sanguinary moments of Boko Haram violence that saw the entire northeast region drenched with the blood of innocents.
Their faith in Allah's instructive promise is bearing fruits. In more ways than one, the last few weeks have given a comforting materiality to this promise of relief after every adversity. For the fourth straight month now, not a single gunshot has been heard in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, which for many months had been the theatre of Boko Haram's butcherly fury.
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