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Nigerian Foreign Policy

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OBJECTIVES AND PRINCIPLES OF NIGERIA’S FOREIGN POLICY SINCE INDEPENDENCE

The Nigerian foreign policy, since her independence, has attributed a lot to the unstable federal balance between three ethnically and politically divided federal states and in order to address this issue the political leadership sought to project Nigeria's external objectives into a wider pan-Africanist framework.

This has been the motivating force of the pre-independence nationalist movement and was for that reason a major influence in the political leadership's philosophical views and socio-political experience. The Nigerian leadership declared a foreign policy that made a close commitment to the more abstract, and less internally sensitive, continental whole, to …show more content…

Nigerian foreign policy-makers have consistently worked to ensure that irredentist and secessionist forces in Africa were contained within the existing territorial boundaries of post-independence Africa. To this end, Nigeria's political leaders played an active role in negotiating the pan-African alliance that became the Organization of African Unity (OAU) now known as the African Union.
In contrast to the more radical leaders of the time, Nigeria required an alliance that would protect the territorial integrity of these fragile states and provide at least a diplomatic weapon against any attempts from within or outside the region to alter the status quo by means of wars of aggression or …show more content…

Through the cumulative process of diplomatic and political precedent, this notion of Nigeria the 'honest-broker' in African politics has become virtually inseparable from Nigeria the 'continental leader’.
Of fundamental significance in the pursuit of Nigerian foreign policy objectives, after the civil war, was the consolidation of a regional support base. The significance of this fact was underscored by the Nigerian suspicion of "neo-colonialist complicity" in seeking to undermine the allegiance of Nigeria's neighbors and, thereby, Nigerian national sovereignty.
Apparently, Nigerian attitudes to regional interaction were influenced by the perceived need for Nigeria to re-establish its credibility within the continental system; and the projected entry of Britain, Nigeria's principal trading partner into the EEC, an event perceived as constituting some disadvantage for Nigerian economic development, in the loss of trading preference and benefits previously extended to Nigeria by

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