Nigeria, Aug. 25 -- Every year on 21 August, the world pauses to honour victims of terrorism. In Nigeria, that pause is never a simple act of remembrance. It is a reckoning - one that asks us to say the names we know, acknowledge the stories we have not heard, and refuse the comfort of forgetting. The dead and the living - widows and widowers, children who suddenly became heads of households, farmers too afraid to enter their fields, young women returning from abduction to a chorus of suspicion - are not statistics in a ledger. They are our neighbours. Any observance that does not place them at the centre becomes performance, not tribute. To remember in Nigeria is not merely to mourn the dead - it is to reckon with the living whose surviv...