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Since independence, with Jaja Wachuku as the first Minister for Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Relations, later called External Affairs, Nigerian foreign policy has been characterised by a focus on Africa as a regional power and by attachment to several fundamental principles: African unity and independence; capability to exercise hegemonic influence in the region: peaceful settlement of ...
Brazil–Nigeria relations are the current and historical relations between the Federative Republic of Brazil and the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Brazil and Nigeria maintain a traditional and diversified relationship, with a strong Nigerian influence on Brazilian cultural and social formation. [1] Both nations are members of the Group of 77 ...
Sheriff F. Folarin is a United States-based Nigerian professor of international relations, who teaches at Texas State University and serves as a visiting professor at the Center for Conflict Management at University of Rwanda and Rwandan Defense Force Command and Staff College in Rwanda. [1] He is also a professor-at-large at Ife Institute of ...
Nigerian politics takes place within a framework of a federal and presidential republic and a representative democracy, in which the president holds executive power. [5] Legislative power is held by the federal government and the two chambers of the legislature: the House of Representatives and the Senate. The legislative branch of Nigeria is ...
Nigeria–United States relations. Bilateral relations between the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the United States of America were formally inaugurated when Nigeria attained its independence from Britain in 1960. In the 21st century, they have entailed an important, if occasionally uneasy, alliance, following a more chequered diplomatic past.
Petroleum politics have been an increasingly important aspect of diplomacy since the rise of the petroleum industry in the Middle East in the early 20th century. As competition continues for a vital resource, the strategic calculations of major and minor countries alike place prominent emphasis on the pumping, refining, transport, sale and use ...
Nigeria Vision 2020. Secularism in Nigeria. Nigeria's reaction to the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence. Nigerian Political Bureau of 1986. Nigerian presidential inauguration. Nigerian region governors and premiers in the First Republic. Nigerian senators of the 8th National Assembly. Nigerian senators of the 9th National Assembly.
The Nigerian film industry is known as Nollywood (a blend of "Nigeria" and "Hollywood") [322] and is now the second-largest producer of movies in the world, having surpassed Hollywood. Only India's Bollywood is larger. Nigerian film studios are based in Lagos, Kano, and Enugu, and form a major portion of the local economy of these cities ...