Policy Making

Guest Policy Topic: | Are Africans (Nigerians) immune to Coronavirus?

“It will be beyond recklessness and irresponsibility to relax the present ongoing social distancing measures in the inane belief that Nigerians have some innate or acquired resistance to COVID-19 virus…..African …

Policy Brief 73-20 | Lack of Resilience Strategy Hobbles Nigeria

Ejeviome Eloho Otobo and Oseloka H. Obaze* A well-worn cliché states that those who “Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail.” That has been Nigeria’s fate in battling the Covid-19 pandemic. …

Guest Policy Topic: | This is how we conquer Covid-19

Jeffrey D. Sachs | April 6, 2020 | CNN.com Jeffrey Sachs is a professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. The opinions expressed in this …

News track: | COVID-19: Experts urge FG to consider expatriate law on Chinese doctors

A former United Nations Diplomat, Mr Oseloka Obaze, has called on the Federal Government to establish that Nigerian doctors’ capacity and competence were inadequate before opening the country’s doors to …

Selonnes Policy Tidbits: | Covid-19: We must monitor the R-Value in the 36 States

It is imperative to commence mandatory testing in all 36 states simultaneously for those who are symptomatic and even asymptomatic. The reason is simple. If you contain infection rates in …

Selonnes Consult MD/CEO Mr Oseloka H Obaze Participates in e-Consultations on UN75 African Region (March 30 – April 12)

The Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development (SCDDD), The Stimson Center, Global Challenges Foundation, Together First and UN2020, are jointly hosting formally an E-consultation for UN75 African Region, to …

Selonnes Consult Policy Tidbits: |  Use Scientific and Evidence-based measures to contain Covid-19

Solutions to mitigating the Covid-19 pandemic will be scientific and evidence-based. Social distancing, self-isolation, stay home orders and quarantine of the infected is the way to go; the public policy …

Guest Policy Topic: | If Covid-19 is not beaten in Africa it will return to haunt us all

March 25 2020 By Abiy Ahmed   – The writer is prime minister of Ethiopia and the 2019 Nobel Peace prize laureate | https://www.ft.com/content/c12a09c8-6db6-11ea-89d-41bea055720b | There is a major flaw …

Selonnes Consult MD/CEO Obaze Calls on FGN  to empower states proactively to grapple with COVID-19

Time for FGN to empower states proactively to grapple with COVID-19 – Obaze  Mr Oseloka H. OBAZE , the MD/CEO of Selonnes Consult, is diplomat, politician, writer, policy consultant and …

Nigeria Is Dying 

Oseloka H. Obaze  Nigeria faces an existential threat. Slowing but surely, Nigeria is dying. Its demise will not be by implosion and a bang as some had forecasted; but by …