President buhari's foreign engagement and Nigeria'S Domestic Problems

It is an obvious fact in International Politics that domestic issues (national interest) determine and shape a country's foreign policy. This becomes more real when the present administration in Nigeria is taken as a point of departure. Coming on the heels of the “change” platform, Auhari identified the core problems of Nigeria to be in the areas of insecurity, corruption and a battered economy during his campaign for the office of the president in 2015. This study has as its major objectives, x-raying how these core problems have been solved especially judging from the numerous foreign engagements of President Buhari administration. The paper reveals that while the administration has significantly made impressive impact in the areas of security and war against corruption, the performance in the economic sector is dismally poor. The paper therefore recommends a more robust economic policy through the engagement of economic experts and industrialists to lend a helping hand in the troubled economic sector as a way of guaranteeing good living standard of Nigerians.