The federal government has directed the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), to with immediate effect, put an end to the payment of fines by Nigerians holding dual citizenship at the nation’s International Airports. The minister of Interior, Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau […]
The Burundi deputies of the National Assembly unanimously adopted on Wednesday, September 19th, 2018, a draft law on the country’s accession to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. The Convention, formally establishing the legal status of […]
BUJUMBURA, 19 septembre(Xinhua) — Les députés de l’Assemblée nationale (chambre basse du Parlement bicaméral burundais) ont adopté à l’unanimité, mercredi, un projet de loi portant adhésion du pays à la Convention de 1954 relative au statut des apatrides. Cette Convention, […]
L’Assemblée Nationale a analysé et adopté à l’unanimité deux projets de loi, l’un portant adhésion de la République du Burundi à la convention de 1954 relative au statut des apatrides et l’autre portant adhésion à la convention de 1961 relative […]
“The purpose of this Act is to record and regulate essential facts about South Sudanese so as to create legal document for use in establishment and protection of civil rights of individuals by creating a data source for compilation of […]
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the immediate commencement of the implementation of a strategic roadmap for Digital Identity Ecosystem in Nigeria at its meeting, held on Wednesday September 12th, 2018 and chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR. The […]
By Zakariyya Adaramola The Federal Government says it is enforcing the mandatory use of the National Identification Number (NIN) beginning from January 1, 2019. The Director-General of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Engr. Aliyu Abubakar Aziz, disclosed this in […]
By Feyi Fawehinmi I was never a fan of the now former Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun. I’m also not a fan of the NYSC programme – as I wrote here in December 2016, the programme is an immoral and unfair […]
REGISTRAR-General Mr Tobaiwa Tonneth Mudede has agreed to issue a passport to United Kingdom-based Zimbabwean journalist Violet Gonda, who last week unsuccessfully applied for the travel document because she was “blacklisted”. Gonda, who returned home early this year after spending […]
By Layse Farias and Charlotte Arnaud In August, an ambitious data collection exercise was jointly launched by UNHCR, the Government of Cote d’Ivoire, and the National Institute of Statistics (INS) to map and improve data on statelessness in the country. […]
The controversial family’s motivation included that it has invested R25bn in SA, employed 7,000 people and was involved in social upliftment projects. The chairman of a parliamentary inquiry had to call for order on Thursday when MPs sniggered and others […]
Ra’eesa Pather The home affairs portfolio committee will begin hearing testimony under oath about how Gupta brothers Rajesh and Atul were granted permission by Home Affairs to become South African citizens, in an investigation that might provide additional support to […]