Interagency Collaboration and Effective Land Border Management in South West, Nigeria

This research concentrates on cooperation between different government institutions, and the efficient management of land borders in South-Western Nigeria. The objectives of the study sought to assess the association of restricted imports with the operational land border control in South-Western Nigeria and the association of multi-stakeholder collaboration with land border control in the region. The study’s objectives gave rise to two research questions and hypotheses, which were tested. The Stakeholders' theory was the theoretical framework for the research. The research method used in this case was survey design. The respondents' replies constituted the primary data, whilst documents from various research worked constituted the secondary data. The respondents were survey participants who filled out a standardized questionnaire. The results were analysed using Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficient and were presented in tables. The study’s findings revealed that multi-stakeholder collaboration has a significant relationship with physical land border management in South West, Nigeria, and that import prohibitions have a significant relationship with operational land border management in South West, Nigeria. flowing from the findings, the study recommended that interagency collaboration with the National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) should be encouraged so that goods that escape the nation’s borders are intercepted in the market. Also, the appropriate tariff and fines due for such goods should be imposed in order to forestall and possibly recover the economic losses that the nation might have incurred as a result of the economic sabotage called smuggling.