AN EVALUATIVE STUDY OF THE RELATIONS BETWEEN NIGERIA AND US, 1999-2019

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In conducting diplomatic relations between countries, always national interests come first before the table of agreement. Relations where national interest cannot be projected that relation is said to be of no use, since the countries involved in the agreement cannot benefit. In Nigeria-United States relations, both the two countries benefit from one another that is why their relations is still in existence in the apex level. United States in interested in Nigeria’s oil that is the reason that oil companies owned by United States existed in Nigeria. While on the Nigerian side, her citizens are employed, and it raises the demand of Nigerian oil by the United States. Data were gathered using primarily. This paper adopted theory of liberalism (from the intergovernmentalism aspect) which viewed the relations of states in the world from the side of cooperation, so that there will be no escalation of conflicts between or among states in the world. This paper made use of simple percentage in analysing the gathered data. The paper addresses the problem whether petroleum is the major commodity of economic relations between Nigeria and United States; also, it looked at whether Nigerian economy developed because of her relations with United States. From the gathered result, result has shown that there are other variables in the development of Nigeria’s economy and not only because of her relations with United States. Lastly, the paper recommends that; there is need for Nigeria to place focal acquisition of skills, technologies and capital investment, and not to depend on exportation of primary commodities only.