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Policy Brief No. 24-1 |Nigeria’s Malgovernance, Misgovernance and Bad Governance

A recent trending photo of the leaders of the BRICS nations hobnobbing and holding hands across-the-chest, spoke eloquently to the group’s vital missing link and presumptive member. That photo brought …

Selonnes Policy Tidbits: | ECOWAS Unglued And Unbundled

#BuFMaNxit is here. Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have jointly decided to exit ECOWAS. The move is unheralded, but not entirely unexpected. If the UK could exit the EU, then …

Discourse Event: |Failure in governance is an endpoint of the political titration and Government’s abdication its accountability and responsibility to protect.

On Friday 30th December, 2023, upon invitation, the MD/CEO of Selonnes Consult Oseloka H. Obaze was the guest on the Atlanta Discuss with Ade podcast hosted by Ade Balogun. The …

Selonnes Policy Tidbits: | FY 2024 Budget not Contingent on FY 2023 Budgetary Performance.

During the presentation of the FY 2024 budget estimates, on 29th November, 2023, assertions were made to the effect that “aggregate revenue of 11.045 trillion naira was projected to fund …

A Nation Mired in Self-Deceit

  Impunity, duplicity and deceit are negative attributes of personal character. When these are wittingly contrived to become attributes of our national character, then, we are as a nation mired in a quagmire. Edmund Burke, along with some great philosophers, offers …

Selonnes Policy Tidbits: |Kidnapping In Nigeria Hit Military Nerves

As it was once in Lebanon, so it is now in Nigeria. Without hesitation, it should be said that Nigeria is becoming the kidnap capital of the world. Kidnap for …

Oseloka H. Obaze, MD/CEO Selonnes Consult to deliver the maiden Frontier Discourse Lecture, on 2 October 2021 at Enugu

Frontier Discourse~Meet the Keynote Speaker, Mr. Oseloka H. Obaze – https://pacesetterfrontier.com/2021/08/21/frontier-discoursemeet-the-keynote-speaker-mr-oseloka-h-obaze/

Selonnes Pundit’s Choice: | Africa needs more than US military aid to defeat terror – Buhari

“That is why we in Nigeria have begun building a train line from the southern coast through the north-east to Niger, our neighbour. My government has been accused of wasting …

Selonnes Pundit’s Choice: |  One War, Many Fighters

Friday| August 13th, 2021   Daily Analysis  In July 2021, about 1000 hunters were inducted to join the multitude of state-sanctioned groups holding forth against Jihadist fighters in Nigeria’s northeast zone. …

Policy Brief 83-21| Whither Nigeria’s Manifest Destiny to Lead Africa? 

Ejeviome Eloho Otobo & Oseloka H. Obaze   There was a time when Nigeria’s leadership role in African affairs was taken for granted. Nigeria was deemed Africa’s bellwether, a notion …