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Policy Brief No. 24-5 | Nigeria’s Opposition Abet APC’s Grim Governance

  Disfranchised Nigerians continue to rebuke the Tinubu Administration for its lackluster governance performance. That is as it should be. On balance, the APC Administration also hasits defenders and apologists. …

Selonnes Policy Tidbits: | ECOWAS Unglued And Unbundled

#BuFMaNxit is here. Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have jointly decided to exit ECOWAS. The move is unheralded, but not entirely unexpected. If the UK could exit the EU, then …

Selonnes Policy Tidbits: | Banditry -Nigeria’s Worst Snubbed Problem

Banditry -Nigeria’s worst snubbed problems- is the continual forced removal of indigenes from their homesteads and ancestral homelands via terrorism, visceral violence, butchery, massacres, displacement and occupation that is creating …

Selonnes Policy Tidbits: | COP28, Co-Opt or Cop-Out

Now that the dust of Nigeria’s profligate COP28 jamboree has settled, it is time for unvarnished assessments and reality check. Nigeria, so far, and perhaps for long, may not experience …

Selonnes Policy Brief  84-21 | 2023: Three Categories of Presidential Aspirants

Ejeviome Eloho Otobo & Oseloka H. Obaze*   In the past few months, three major developments have pushed the 2023 elections to the fore front of national public discourse. In …

Selonnes Policy Tidbits: | Nigeria and Indonesia – Diplomacy and the Rule of the Game

Diplomatic incidents happen. Some are innocuous and others, so egregious that nations are ready to go to war. It is all about honour, reciprocity and respecting the rules of the …

Selonnes Consult MD/CEO Oseloka H. Obaze At Sapientia TV “Citizens Forum” Pilot Recording 

Today, 3 August 2021, Oseloka H. Obaze, MD/CEO of Selonnes Consult made a debut appearance on Sapientia TV “Citizens Forum” Pilot Recording.   During the hour-long exchange, Obaze and the …

Policy Brief 82-21| Nigeria’s Divergent Tales of Fishermen and Herdsmen

Ejeviome Eloho Otobo & Oseloka H. Obaze*   In Nigeria, two important traditional food and agricultural occupations face existential threats. The fishermen in the coastal areas of the country and …

Policy Brief 81-21| Biden’s Likely Policy Orientation Toward Africa

Ejeviome Eloho Otobo & Oseloka H. Obaze* “U.S. support for Africa should transcend the promotion of democracy, and include actions on a range of economic-related issues, in particular support for …

Policy Brief 80-21| The World According To Biden

  Oseloka H. Obaze   Introduction   While indeed Biden will not underscore Pax Americana, he cannot gloss over it or abandon it entirely. What stands jettisoned is the “America First” …