This article examines the politics of public policies characterised by increased securitisation of Nigeria’s national boundary from 2014 to 2017. While the regulation appears on paper to discourage transborder crime, capital outflow and sustain a favourable balance of payment, the existing armoury of West African border literature argues otherwise. What is new in the transborder dynamics of West Africa? What informs government’s border policies in Nigeria? In answering these questions, this study provides a template for a reassessment of the gap between borderlands theory and policy in West Africa. The approach is comparative based on the critical analysis of oral interviews, government trade records, newspaper reports and the extant literature. The article provides a platform for rethinking of the nexus between governance and development in West Africa from the securitisation and neo-patrimonial perspectives. It concludes that effective border management in Nigeria is set aback by misguided and dysfunctional elitist-centred regulations that are devoid of the realities on the ground.

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2014-2017年尼日利亚的边境证券化和国家政策政治

本文研究了以2014年至2017年尼日利亚国界证券化为特征的公共政策政治。尽管该法规似乎在纸上旨在阻止跨境犯罪，资本外流并维持良好的国际收支，但西非边界文献的现有武器库反对。西非的跨国动态有什么新变化？什么使政府在尼日利亚的边境政策有所了解？在回答这些问题时，本研究为重新评估西非边界理论与政策之间的差距提供了模板。这种方法是基于口头访谈，政府贸易记录，报纸报道和现有文献的批判性分析进行比较的。本文提供了一个平台，可以从证券化和新世袭视角重新思考西非治理与发展之间的关系。结论是，尼日利亚的有效边界管理因缺乏实地现实的，误导且功能失调的以精英为中心的法规而受挫。