Strategic international relations predispose states to relate with nations for mutual benefits and protect national security and territorial integrity accordingly. These bilateral and multilateral relations are guided by codified legal templates in principles, letters and spirit of international law. Ideally, foreign intelligence collection should be within the ambit of international law amongst allies at least to ensure mutual trust and respect. However, in real life situations, the applications of international laws and respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity is usually jettisoned on the altars of secrecy and national security even amongst close allies. The work therefore evaluated the need for extensive legal reforms that will usher in responsible and actionable foreign intelligence collection and management that takes into account national sovereignty, equity and mutual respect in the comity of nations. The prescribed legal reforms are intended to attenuate inequality and disrespect for weak and small nations by the ‘super powers' of the world, thus creating a world order that will foist deeper cooperation in the global quest for security, peace and development. To achieve all these, the work adopted the doctrinal cum historicist approach which involves scrutinizing legal propositions/doctrines and content analysis of data from primary and secondary sources such as statutes, books, journals, gazettes, government publications, declassified intelligence, and such other data that were logically and objectively presented for coherence and logic as required by this kind of research enterprise.