Nigeria maintains 200 country and bloc relationships. Only 12 are load-bearing; 119 exist mainly on paper. What keeps each one alive — oil, debt, diaspora, education — is tagged below.
relationships out of 200 carry real weight — the ones that survive a change of government because something material (oil, credit, people) runs through them. The remaining 188 are working or formal.
Large Ghanaian trader community in Nigeria; large Nigerian community in Ghana. Both countries expelled each other's nationals at scale (1969 and 1983). The human relationship is far more turbulent than the formal diplomatic one.
Largest bilateral trade relationship within Africa. MTN (South African) is Nigeria's largest mobile operator by some measures. But xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa are recurring and have produced boycott threats. The relationship is substantive on paper and turbulent in practice.