Constitutional Rights

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 …

Policy  Brief 75-20 |Nigeria In the next 36 months

Ejeviome Eloho Otobo. & Oseloka H. Obaze   Ever before the first ballot in the 2019 presidential elections was cast, some members of Nigeria’s leadership elite, across the political spectrum, …

Selonnes Policy Tidbits: | Covid-19: Time to Recalibrate and Synergize Response

Sooner or later parts or whole of Nigeria will be locked down again. The alternative is too scary to contemplate. Nigerians don’t mind staying home so long as they have …

We Must Forge National Consensus, Restructure For Nationhood To Be Sustained – Obaze

Remarks Attributable to Hon. Oseloka H. Obaze, MD/CEO Selonnes Consult and the PDP 2017 Gubernatorial Candidate in Anambra State Year 2019 was an extremely difficult and challenging year for Nigerians. …

Selonnes Consult Policy Titbits: Hate Speech Bill Insidious and Unnecessary

The shrinking of Nigeria’s civic space should bother Nigerians. Whereas hate speech,  fighting and inciting words should be decried, those  who in a democratic setting craft extremist laws meant to …

Policy Brief 67/19:  Waning Strength of Government

Oseloka H. Obaze || Promoting democracy requires constant shielding of its sustaining institutions. That’s moral and strategic imperative. The expedient practice of mixing accepted international democratic norms, with self-serving precepts …

Selonnes Consult Policy Brief  63/19: Folly and Falsities of Ruga Settlements

Oseloka H. Obaze*   The Ruga policy is fraught with folly and falsities. It has unquestionable ethnic coloration; and its processes are bereft of full disclosure. Indubitably, Ruga is not …

Selonnes Consult Policy Brief 57/18: Vanquishing Gender Imbalance in Nigerian Politics

https://www.academia.edu/39893657/Vanquishing_Gender_Imbalance_in_Nigerian_Politics 

Policy Brief 55/18 -Pitfalls of Nigeria’s hyper-monetized electoral value chain

Chima Christian and Oseloka H. Obaze   Money politics and campaign finance remain topical and disconcerting issues in Nigeria. They are also policy issues that have further compounded by vote-buying …

Rule of Law in Nigeria

Ejeviome Eloho Otobo and Oseloka H. Obaze Speaking at the 58th Annual NBA Conference in Abuja recently, President Muhammadu Buhari proclaimed that “the rule of law must be subject to …