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ABSTRACT
The research work has examined Nigeria’s foreign policy, with a particular focus on Nigeria's West African foreign policy and its impact on trans-border crime at the Nigeria-Benin border, spanning 1999 - 2013. The study analyses the extent to which the implementation of Nigeria’s foreign policy and its strands have contributed to the illicit enterprise of transborder crime atthe Nigeria-Benin border. The study reveals that the implementation of Nigeria’s West Africanforeign policy in her interactions with countries in the sub-region, and her immediate neighbours in particular, have produced mixed results, with respect to borderrelated issues. One of such border-related challenges that has emanated from the implementations of Nigeria’s West Africaforeign policy, especially in her relations with her immediate neighbours has been the threat of trans-border crime on the country’s socioeconomic development. The study establishes that Nigeria’s commitment to broader Afrocentrism in the West Africa sub-region and her immediate neighboursled to the formulation of the foreign policy strands of good neighbourliness, commitment to ECOWAS Treaty, particularly the protocol on free movement of persons, goods and right to resident and the relaxation of her borders.And that the implementations of these strands particularly, Nigeria’s with her immediate neighbours have resulted in border-relations challenges for the Nigerian state. One of such border-related challenges is threat posed by trans-border crime. The opening of Nigeria’s border for the free movement of persons and goods encouraged the illicit enterprise significantly.
