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Selonnes Policy Tidbits: | Despite Unbundling of Nigeria’s oil industry, overall work plan remains uncertain due to policy dissonance and uncertainties

It took several years to arrive at the unbundling of Nigeria’s petroleum and allied oil industry. The requisite legislation is in place and there has been perceptible movements, but policy …

Selonnes Consult MD/CEO Oseloka H. Obaze attend SIRA 2021 Annual PublicLecture  and Generla Assembly in Abuja

GAPS in Inclusive Participation in Nigeria’s SSRG.

Comments By Mr. Oseloka H. Obaze, MD/CEO Selonnes Consult At the FES/CISLAC Conference on Gaps in SSG/R and Possible Contributions of Civil Society and non-Traditional Security Actors,  Abuja FCT, 27-28 …

Selonnes Policy Tidbits: | Covid 19 Vaccine – Nigeria Must Attend to Most Vulnerable First.

Global best practices in any sector, requires copying or emulating policies adopted by other members of the international community to promote the welfare of their citizens. In that regard, there …

Selonnes Policy  Tidbits: |  Nigeria Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution Controversy

Nigeria’s Covid-19 response regime has been fraught with controversy from the onset. Now the distribution plan and anticipated expenses are also mired in controversy. This is a result of lack …

News Track| Leading foreign relations think tank in Africa, SIRA, gets new leadership – Owei Lakemfa is President; Obaze chairs public affairs committee

The leading foreign relations Think Tank in Africa, Society for International Relations Awareness, has elected human rights activist, labour leader and author, Owei Lakemfa, as its new President. Lakemfa, who …

Selonnes Policy Tidbits | Kankara Kidnapping marks Three Strikes

In conflict situations, strike modalities are marked by a pertinent cliché: first strike as happenstance, second strike coincidence and the third strike is enemy action. Boko Haram having claimed to …

Policy Brief 79-20 | The Strength of Government

Nigeria teeters between coercion and consensus building. The federal government should not succumb to the former, having already initiated wide-ranging consultations with national stakeholders, including governors, traditional rulers, women and …

If the Dead Could Speak, What Would Achebe Say of Present Day Nigeria?

Keynote Address by Hon. Oseloka Henry Obaze, MD/CEO Selonnes Consult Ltd.At the Fifth Chinua Achebe Literary Festival, Awka, Nigeria, 16th November, 2020   Introduction I am thrilled to have been …

Selonnes Policy Tidbits: | NEC’s setting up of State-based Judicial Panels of Inquiry on rights violations by Police, propitious, but belated

National Economic Council’s recent directive to establish of State-based Judicial Panels of Inquiry nationwide to investigate complaints of Police brutality or related extra-judicial killings is propitious, but a tad belated. …