NewsRescue-<\/em> When will Nigerians be accorded the full-fledged rights of citizens in their country, irrespective of whatever region of the country they are born and bred?<\/p>\nThis question has remained a mirage. One of the undoings of Nigeria, Africa\u2019s most populous nation, is the stifling problem of \u201cindigeneity\u2019\u2019 as conditioned by the citizenship law.<\/p>\n
Indigeneity and problems of citizenship in Nigeria make a person born and bred in Lagos, Ibadan, Kano or any other part of the country not a true member of his society, contrary to what obtains in the United States and other \u2018developed\u2019 countries.<\/p>\n
This is because an Igbo man can not contest\u00a0 governorship of Katsina state or a Hausa man, with Nigerian citizenship status, cannot contest election in Lagos, even though he was born and bred there and has contributed to its development.<\/p>\n
An Itsekiri man living in Oyo State for over 25 years, making necessary contributions to the development of the state, is not regarded as an indigene of the state.<\/p>\n
Irrespective of the number of years he has spent in Oyo State, he and all members of his family are still regarded as settlers and non-indigenes, hence, they cannot have access to or benefit from what is purely reserved for the indigenes, even if such indigenes have not been in Ekiti State for over 30 years.<\/p>\n
In Lagos, for instance, calling yourself a Lagosian, doesn\u2019t guarantee you the full citizenship rights, even though you were born and bred there, know only Yoruba and have no worthwhile connection to anywhere else.<\/p>\n
Read further: http:\/\/newsrescue.com\/nigerians-nigerian-rethinking-nigerias-citizenship-laws\/#ixzz4Bqe3Tzm6<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Toluwani Eniola NewsRescue- When will Nigerians be accorded the full-fledged rights of citizens in their country, irrespective of whatever region of the country they are born and bred? This question has remained a mirage. One of the undoings of Nigeria, Africa\u2019s most populous nation, is the stifling problem of \u201cindigeneity\u2019\u2019 as conditioned by the […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[499,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","category-uncategorized","region-nigeria-fr","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-490","item-theme-citoyennete-interne"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14050,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14049\/revisions\/14050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}