citizenship

Buhari Grants Nigerian Citizenship To 286 Foreign Nationals

September 16, 2022 6:11 am

The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday awarded Nigerian citizenship to 286 nationals, calling on them to be good citizens of the country to enjoy all the rights and privileges bestowed on them.

‘You have pledged your allegiance to Nigeria. When you give your love and loyalty to Nigeria, she returns her love and loyalty to you,’ the president told the awardees during an event at the State House.

The president explained that out of the 286 foreign nationals presented with certificates of Nigerian citizenship, 208 received certificates by naturalisation, while 78 got certificates by Registration.

According to a …

Liberia Signs Bill Allowing Dual Nationality Into Law

July 25, 2022 5:21 am

Liberia has signed into law a bill that allows dual citizenship, reversing a longtime ban viewed by some as hypocritical going to the fact that the elites secretly held US citizenship.

The bill, signed into law by President George Weah Friday has now been passed by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the bill now amends the West African state’s nationality law, allowing Liberians to remain citizens after acquiring a second nationality.

Liberia which was presently a country founded by Americans has a significant diaspora living in the United States. An …

India Death Toll Rises In Clashes Over Citizenship Law

December 20, 2019 3:59 pm

Six more protesters died in India Friday in fresh clashes between police and demonstrators, taking the death toll to 15 in more than a week of unrest triggered by a citizenship law seen as anti-Muslim.

The law — which makes it easier for persecuted minorities from three neighbouring countries to gain citizenship, but not if they are Muslim — has stoked fears Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to remould the world’s biggest democracy India as a Hindu nation, which he denies.

The latest deaths, in northern Uttar Pradesh where almost 20 percent of the state’s 200-million population are Muslim, …

Protests Rage In Northeast India Over Citizenship Bill

December 10, 2019 3:43 pm

Protestors in northeast India set fire to tyres and cut down trees to block roads on Tuesday in a shutdown across the region hours after lawmakers approved the government’s new citizenship bill.

The legislation, set to go before the upper house on Wednesday, will fast-track citizenship claims from immigrants from three neighbouring countries — but not if they are Muslim.

For Islamic groups, the opposition, rights groups and others this fits into Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist agenda to marginalise India’s 200 million Muslims — something he denies.

People in northeast India object for different reasons, fearing that large …