Nigeria’s Foreign Policy and Insecurity: Addressing the Missing Links and Reoccurring Issues

Stephen Chioke, Chibuike Chris Umeokafor
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Insecurity is the biggest problem in Africa and nothing meaningful has been done by several sovereign states in Sub-Saharan Africa to stem the tide and its effects on nations all over the region. To this end, security has risen to be the dire need to be considered through the lens of foreign policy as an integral part of public administration and governance in Nigeria. Therefore, this paper specifically explored the missing links that gave rise to the problem of insecurity from foreign policy perspective; and the reoccurring issues that the ebb and flow of her foreign policy posed to Nigerian public space with major focus on Buhari’s Administration. Secondary data was employed to analyse the broad and specific objectives of this paper through a descriptive and explanatory method. The missing link in Nigeria’s foreign policy and security challenges spotted in the analysis are political ideology, globalization, poorly unchecked borderlands, and high rate of migration of criminal elements. The paper discovered some reoccurring issues in Nigeria’s foreign policy and security challenges. The paper concluded that all is not well with the country, because while the protectionist policy under President Buhari to a great extent blocked foreign trade, it left security of borderlands at the mercy of corrupt security personnel. Based on this, all hands must be on deck to exterminate the current tide in the wave of insecurity ravaging the country at all costs.
尼日利亚的外交政策与不安全:解决缺失环节和反复出现的问题
不安全是非洲最大的问题,撒哈拉以南非洲的几个主权国家没有采取任何有意义的措施来遏制这一浪潮及其对整个地区各国的影响。为此,安全问题已成为迫切需要从外交政策的角度加以考虑的问题,是尼日利亚公共行政和治理的一个组成部分。因此,本文专门从外交政策的角度探讨了导致不安全问题的缺失环节;以及尼日利亚外交政策的起伏给尼日利亚公共空间带来的反复出现的问题,重点关注布哈里政府。本文采用了二手数据,通过描述性和解释性方法对本文的广泛和具体目标进行了分析。在分析中发现,尼日利亚外交政策和安全挑战中缺失的环节是政治意识形态、全球化、边境地区不受约束以及犯罪分子的高移民率。本文发现了尼日利亚外交政策和安全挑战中一些反复出现的问题。论文得出结论认为,尼日利亚并非一切顺利,因为布哈里总统领导下的保护主义政策在很大程度上阻碍了对外贸易,但却使边境地区的安全任由腐败的安全人员摆布。有鉴于此,各方必须齐心协力,不惜一切代价消灭当前肆虐该国的不安全浪潮。
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