Boko Haram insurgency insurgency spread to neighboring Cameroon, Chad, and Niger thus becoming a major regional conflict. In 2015, a coalition offensive forced Boko Haram to retreat into the Sambisa Forest. The insurgency took place within the context of long-standing issues of religious violence between Nigeria's Muslim and Christian communities. Boko Haram has been called the world's deadliest terrorist group, in terms of the number of people it has killed. Nigeria was amalgamated both the Northern and Southern protectorate in 1914, only about a decade after the defeat of the Sokoto Caliphate and other Islamic states by the British which were to constitute
One Day in the Haram and interviews many of the employees of these departments, to ascertain which departments and employees would be the best fit for the film. "One Day in the Haram" is a film about the Haram in Makkah, told through the eyes of the workers. The workers represent the human face of the Haram, and the film explores the work they do as well as the spiritual motivation of the employees. Hussain organised the film across the 5 daily prayers (Fajr, Dhur, Asr, Magrib and Isha) focusing on the jobs carried out by different departments of the Haram within these time frames.