Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tare da wannan matsayin na Afirka, Najeriya da sauri ta aika da sojoji zuwa Kwango
a umurnin Majalisar Dinkin Duniya jim kaɗan bayan samun 'yanci (kuma ya ci gaba da kasancewa memba tun daga wannan lokacin). Najeriya kuma ta goyi bayan dalilai da yawa na Pan-Afirka da masu goyon bayan gwamnati a cikin shekarun 1970, gami da samun goyon baya ga MPLA na Angola, SWAPO a Namibia, da kuma taimakawa adawa da ƙananan gwamnatocin Portugal na Mozambique, da Rhodesia. Najeriya ta ci gaba da kasancewa memba a cikin Movement Non-Aligned Movement. A karshen Nuwamba 2006, ta shirya taron kolin Afirka da Kudancin Amurka a Abuja don inganta abin da wasu mahalarta suka kira " Kudu-Kudancin " alaƙa a bangarori daban-daban. Najeriya kuma memba ce ta Kotun hukunta manyan laifuka ta duniya, da kuma Commonwealth of Nations. An fitar da shi na ɗan lokaci daga ƙarshen a cikin 1995 lokacin da gwamnatin Abacha ke mulki.