Strength of Government

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’s Forex Kabuki

Nigeria’s policy somersaults relating to it’s forex regime remains disconcerting and a Catch-22 situation. Any which way, the nation is bleeding. Since 2015, CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele, seems conflicted on …

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 Consult MD/CEO Oseloka H. Obaze  to speak on “Defence Budget & Spending – Implications & Options for post-Covid-19 Nigeria,” by Zoom, Tuesday 18 August 2020

Read summary of event: https://nigeria.fes.de/e/defence-budgets-and-spending-implications-and-options-for-post-covid-19-nigeria 

Members of  Senate Committee on Science and Technology call on Oseloka H. Obaze, MD/CEO Selonnes Consult & PDP Chieftan

The  Chairperson of Senate Committee on Science and Technology, Senator Uche Ekwunife (PDP Anambra Central) and her colleagues, Senator Obinna Ogba (PDP Ebonyi) Senator Saidu Ahmed Alkali (APC Gombe North) …

Oseloka H. Obaze’s two books, Waning Strength of Government & Africa’s Vision – A Second Anthology, published.

Announcing Parresia’s release of Oseloka H. Obaze’s two new (2020) books: Waning Strength of Government & Africa’s Vision – A Second Anthology.   Both books which will be available at bookstores …

Covid-19 has revealed waning strength of government –Oseloka Obaze

Federal and state governments have responded constructively to the Covid-19 pandemic within the scope of their governance abilities. But as a nation our overall response has been very weak. Some …

Interview: Nigerians Skeptical About Covid-19 Donations, Disbursements and Infection Figures – Obaze

AWKA – 12 May 2020: Mr. Oseloka H. Obaze is a diplomat, writer, public policy and governance expert and politician. He was the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the …

Selonnes Policy Tidbits: | Covid-19: A government that is Inattentive cannot beAdaptive  and Purposeful. 

Covid-19 has debunked illusions, unraveled myths, and shredded soft power of big and small nations, Nigeria included. It has upended normalcy. A government that is inattentive to outside expert opinion, …

Selonnes Policy Tidbits: |  Covid-19 Response; we must overcome groupthink.

For Nigeria to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic, the national leadership must overcome the Groupthink syndrome that is driving national response. The “Central Minds of Government” can’t do it alone. By …