ABSTRACT

Since independence, the guiding principle of Nigeria‟s Foreign Policy and the pursuit of its national interest in both its bilateral and its multilateral relationship, have remained a reflection of its perception of the international environment and internal structure. Foreign policy as a concept has been referred to as the category of action a government takes which deals with defence, security, international politics relations and international economic relations. Since the advent of the country called Nigeria foreign policy has been in place; this assertion therefore pave way for the topic of this project “Foreign Policy and Economic Development in Nigeria since 1960-2014”. The topic has its focus direction on the interrogation of the relations of both variables on Nigeria based on identified parameters (research objectives). To achieve such, a quantitative survey was carried out amongst 150 respondents within Ado-Ekiti, the state capital of Ekiti state. Also, an examination of Nigeria foreign policy and economic development was carried out under the various federal government administrations from 1960-2014 as well as three theoretical frame adopted as the research underpinnings.

The research finding was that the structure of Nigeria foreign policy is not well-tailored to meet her economic development needs. Also Nigeria needs to refocus on economic diplomacy to utilize her economic status to attract external economic assistance that can aid developments. An nee restructuring of the Principle of Nigeria Foreign policy to suit economic development agenda.

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