National Security

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 Team Participate in Second Abuja Dialogue 

Select Peace and Security Experts gathered in Abuja, Nigeria on 15-16 October, 2019 for the Second Edition of Abuja Dialogue co-funded by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation and the European …

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 64/19:  Is Nigeria Still a Regional Hegemon?

Ejeviome Eloho Otobo & Oseloka H. Obaze*  “Nigeria’s status as a regional hegemon risks further regression, absent the restructuring of its governance arrangements, creatively tackling its myriad security challenges, promoting …

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 

Nigeria’s revenant security trends

“We are a nation in denial. Rising insecurity in Nigeria did not happen in a vacuum. The “indicators of conduciveness” were discernible.”

Selonnes Consult Policy Brief 62/19:  Receding, Emerging and Resurging Issues and Trends in the Security Sector

Paper Presented by Mr. Oseloka H. Obaze, MD/CEO of Selonnes Consult, Awka, Nigeria  At the CISLAC-FES Multi-Stakeholders Forum on Peace and Security Challenges in Nigeria, At the Consort Luxury Suite …

Selonnes Consult Policy Brief 61/19: Is Nigeria Bedeviled By The “Ungoverned Space” Syndrome?

Ejeviome Eloho Otobo and Oseloka H. Obaze  Ungoverned space is a new concept applied to an old problem, namely the lack of effective government presence in parts or places within …

Policy Brief 54/18:   Chinese Silk Road; Debt Peonage for Nigeria?

Ken Chendo & Oseloka H. Obaze  Introduction China is out to conquer the world, and many countries have fallen victim to its geopolitical game. Yet there is an emergent corollary; …