The president must start from the time-honoured precept that foreign policy is an extension of domestic policy.
President Tinubu alongside the US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard, and the deputy chief of mission to Nigeria, Rolf Olson.
But even as domestic policies will rightly dominate his attention in the first few months, interests will also be high with regards to the direction of the country’s foreign policy and its relations with the rest of the world. For good reason, Nigeria’s foreign policy in the last decade, indeed after the Obasanjo presidency, has been rudderless and ineffectual for the most part.
Focusing the country’s foreign policy to better handle the country’s security challenges will require increasingly efficient and effective partnerships with key actors in the global arena. The rise of domestic terrorists over the past decade-and-a-half, and their strong links to international non-state actors, demands a foreign policy that is strongly linked with the nation’s defence policies.
Focusing the country’s foreign policy to better handle the country’s security challenges will require increasingly efficient and effective partnerships with key actors in the global arena. The rise of domestic terrorists over the past decade-and-a-half, and their strong links to international non-state actors, demands a foreign policy that is strongly linked with the nation’s defence policies.
One practice of the last decade that President Tinubu should put an end to is the shuttle diplomacy that sees the president of Nigeria joining other African heads of state to honour invitations from individual Asian, European and American leaders. In the past decade, African leaders have sat down at the capitals of great and not-so-great powers including the United States, France, Turkey, India and China.
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