How Nigeria plans to end statelessness – Minister
Published: 12/Oct/2019
Source: Premium Times (Abuja)
By Nike Adebowale
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar, has expressed the Nigerian government’s commitment to end statelessness by tackling gender-based violence in the country.
She said the government is determined to end statelessness ”by developing regulations to eliminate gender-based discrimination”.
She made this known on Thursday when she led a Nigerian delegation to address a high-level segment on statelessness at the ongoing 70th Executive Committee (ExCom) session of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees programme in Geneva, Switzerland.
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