Pax Nigeriana

Could the Nigerian military intervene in African conflicts such as the South Sudanese Civil War or the Moroccan invasion of the SAR successfully and if they could what would be the implications. Not limited to these wars.
 
Nigeria's huge population and oil gives it a heft when it comes its West African region, but lacks the political and economic institutions that would enable it to project force well enough that it could impose stability in its region. It can do well enough against military pygmies, but simply can't project overwhelming deterrent force.
 
You'd need an early POD if you want a Nigeria Wank.

I suggest you go with both Northern and Southern Cameroon acceding to Nigeria in 1961 instead of just the North acceding to Nigeria. This gives Southern Nigerians more power in the republic and so the 1966 coup d'état never happens by disaffected southern soldiers, and so there's no counter coup by northern soldiers either, and the entire Nigerian civil war is butterflied away. Plus they get more land and oil.

So no war, and by the current year Nigeria has a strong, uninterrupted tradition of democracy. This stability would give you the Nigeria that your asking for here.
 
Could the Nigerian military intervene in African conflicts such as the South Sudanese Civil War or the Moroccan invasion of the SAR successfully and if they could what would be the implications. Not limited to these wars.

Nigeria tends to intervene within West Africa. Outside of West Africa, it'll go as a part of UN peacekeeping missions.
 
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