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New year resolution was to get 12 essays published in 12 different mags and journals, apart from my #EngagingBorders column @daily_nigerian. Well, it's April 4th and piece no. 4, centred around #Pankshin, has just been published in @SisiAfrika_ Magazine. Sharing in a bit.

2020 new year resolution was to publish twelve nonfiction pieces, apart from my #EngagingBorders column. My first piece will be out today, on #Biafraland and the ways the romanticised pasts can turn up crippled presents. It'll be out in a premier German outlet. Watch this space!

My twentieth #EngagingBorders essay for @daily_nigerian deals with the similarities between #EndSARS and Government of Nigeria, particularly as regards the "problems" of strategy and leadership (the lack thereof). It's a long one. #share. Emails welcome.
https://t.co/6GVVWsXPo6
1. In an earlier #EngagingBorders essay on healthcare in the northeast, I noted a subsidiary narrative Boko Haram deploys to undermine the state ... that Nigeria does not care about citizens, indicated by everything from a lack of basic identification...
https://t.co/DIK7GUagyN
My nineteenth #EngagingBorders essay for @daily_nigerian centres on #Bardo where village women raised N1,000,000 to buy a car to convey pregnant women to the hospital. Self-help & apathy have serious implications on internal security & the social contract. #Thread

My nineteenth #EngagingBorders essay for @daily_nigerian centres on #Bardo where village women raised N1,000,000 to buy a car to convey pregnant women to the hospital. Self-help & apathy have serious implications on internal security & the social contract.
https://t.co/DIK7GUagyN
My eighteenth #EngagingBorders piece for @daily_nigerian weaves a nexus between the idea of "ungoverned spaces" and the policing problem in Nigeria. Enjoy and #share Comments welcome.
https://t.co/JoaDkBQ1aM
My seventeenth #EngagingBorders piece for @daily_nigerian It concludes the 'Boko Haram et al' series. #read #share https://t.co/xI2VYEoJy9 via @LinkedIn
My #EngagingBorders essay for @daily_nigerian this week deals with the “triangle of terror”—financing, operations and intelligence—that undergirds all terrorist groups. . . and why I think the ordinary Nigerian citizen should know about this.
https://t.co/aN9qRLQMlh
Thank you all for your patience. My #EngagingBorders essay this week is out @Daily_Nigerian. It deals with fishing and what we must do to get it right.
https://t.co/t3PyP9qzK8
"Oga Gambari, Nigeria needs a strategy management Ojuju" is my salute to the new Chief of Staff. My fourteenth #EngagingBorders piece for @daily_nigerian is now live. Comments, emails welcome. Read, retweet, share. https://t.co/pOoJDRYpH8
After a 2-week hiatus, my #EngagingBorders byline at @daily_nigerian is back. Thank you for the emails and calls while I was off. Here's the thirteenth piece. Feedback always welcome.
Boko Haram: Public health is a national security issue, by Richard Ali https://t.co/nbp7uxvziI
No weapons of procrastination and power failure fashioned against my @Daily_Nigerian column shall prosper. Ayam the Riquid Metal for nothing? Draft finished and sent off. Feeling good with myself. #EngagingBorders
My #EngagingBorders essay this week thinks around the FGN/National Security Adviser's 'National Action Plan on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism' and what's not happened with it. Just published in @daily_nigerian. Comments, emails always welcome.
https://t.co/WVnSVjvNsq
My #EngagingBorders piece for @daily_nigerian is up. Central image is of the American folk hero, Evil Eye Fleagle. My concern this week? The implications of Nigeria's #coronavirus and #CrudeOilCrash whammies to state stability. Oh, and Bertrand Russell.
https://t.co/Qs1CRneHQu
#EngagingBorders essay #10 for @daily_Nigerian is live and it evokes Cassandra. Like her, I warn of a looming danger that encompasses healthcare in IDP camps, Boko Haram's key propaganda and why this government needs to, well, govern. And fast. Seriously.
https://t.co/WCOJd2iSrH
Hello everyone, it would seem my #EngagingBorders essay for @daily_nigerian this week is running late. Will give a heads-up when it's live. Here's appreciating the splendid work newspaper editors and journalists do in this #CoronaVirusInNigeria lockdown period. You're heroes too.
My @Daily_Nigerian article for the week involves Abubakar Shekau and Idriss Deby. Coronavirus and China also make it in. Read, share, emails are welcome. #EngagingBorders
https://t.co/RNS9nAWLyl
No. 8. Buhari and the virus, STRATCOM and underlying issues, by Richard Ali - Daily Nigerian #EngagingBorders https://t.co/lY7hkQg0fJ
👇🏾My sixth @daily_nigerian #EngagingBorders piece is contemporary. Nothing in #Nigeria is more in-your-face than #coronavirus magana. To this topic I've added medical research, security issues, cooperation...
How did I do? Oya, read, share, send emails.🇳🇬
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