ration of African states from colonisers both in material and financial ways. Falola and Ihonvbere (??) state during the Shagari regime, the then President Shagari stated that the support would be diplomatic, moral, material and financially. For example, during the Cold War era, Nigeria's spearheaded an anti-apartheid position in Africa and in world politics led gaining support from the United Nations and other international organisations. The activities of Nigeria continued in the post cold war era in which on the 6th July 1990 ECOWAS members met to mandate a peacekeeping force called ECOMOG to try to bring peace in Liberia. However, there was need for ECOMOG to expand its peacekeeping operations to other countries in the region including, Sierra Leone and Guinea Bissaue. Throughout, Nigeria had an upperhand in those operations.
             Given that ECOMOG came at the right time to show that Africa could manage its own conflicts due to superpowers fearing sending troop due to Somalia incidents, Ni
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