National interest

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” …

Selonnes Policy Tidbits: | The World According To Biden

Hope waxes eternal. And so it is, for the United States and the rest of the world, with the swearing in of Joe Biden on 20th January as the 46th …

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 …

Current Policy Briefs on pressing security issues in Nigeria.

Selonnes Consult is proud to have collaborated with  Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) in producing two seminal policy briefs dedicated to interrogating two pressing security issues in Nigeria:  Governing and Securing …