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Opinion: Nigeria, the African Giant: In Need of Foreign Policy Direction, By Owei Lakemfa

Its actions…in 2015, showed a marked commitment to regional security and an integrated collective response to terrorism… We can integrate these with our other concerns such as international crimes…to develop a comprehensive foreign policy and a framework to execute it.

The Buhari administration can claim that it put in place the Nigerian Economic Diplomacy Initiative . With all due respect, this is no foreign policy; at best, it would be a paragraph written into such a policy. Even the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dr.

The Babangida regime…had an imaginative ‘Concert of Medium Powers’ foreign policy, credited to its foreign affairs minister, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi. Under this, in 1987, sixteen countries, picked on the basis of their perceived powers in various regions of the world, came together to try to steer the world away from the two super powers.

 

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