There has been an increased interest in adopting the concentric circle in analyzing Nigerian foreign policy since the time of Ibrahim Gambari as External Affairs Minister of Nigeria between 1984 and 1985. He has often argued that more will be gained if scholars and policy-makers develop the layered approach to the study of Nigerian foreign policy. By this, it means that Nigeria's interests in global affairs should be located in the physical Nigeria and her immediate night hours in West Africa, larger Africa, then the rest of the world and international organizations. This, Ibrahim Gambari and others who believe in the thesis of concentric circle argue, is the best way for Nigeria to go in protecting her interests.