Nigeria’s Foreign Policy and National Development

A Study of Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration, 2015 to 2023

Abstract

Foreign Policy is a country’s strategic relation with countries and agencies of international system. A policy of tact and strategy for the actualization of enormous expectations of the national interest of a sovereign state. From this assertion, this paper examined and assessed foreign policy of Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in its essence to national development. The research design of this paper is qualitative in data collection and analysis. The study revealed positive indications and failures that trailed the conduct of Nigerian foreign policy under Buhari’s administration towards national development between 2015 and 2023. From these findings, the paper recommends for the redefinition of Nigeria foreign policy (in thrust, strategy and drive), enhanced purposeful foreign collaboration among other measures to respond meaningfully to the expectations of national development.