Foundation urges end to Nigeria’s non-aligned foreign policy
Naija News • 2d ago
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A group, Foundation for Peace Professionals (PeacePro), has called on the federal government to abandon the country’s outdated Non-Aligned foreign policy.
According to the group, the policy has outlived its usefulness in “today’s fast-evolving global power dynamics.”
In a statement released Friday, its executive director, Abdulrazaq Hamzat, argued that Nigeria must adopt a new foreign policy framework, “Nigeria-Aligned,” designed to prioritise the nation’s security, economic interests, and sovereignty over diplomatic sentiment and historical nostalgia.
Hamzat noted that the global system was no longer defined by the cold war era neutrality, but by fierce competitions over security, energy, technology, trade, migration, and influence.
The statement read in part, “Non-al...