The Minister of Interior, General Abdulrahman Dambazzau (rtd), disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of a meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The minister said the last time such exercise was done was in 2013. This, he said, explained the backlog of applications.

He said government rejected 165 citizenship applications.

The minister was accompanied by the Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, andthe Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina.

Danbazau said out of 500 applications that were considered, 335 were recommended for citizenship approval to FEC and that the council gave its approval yesterday.

The 335 citizenship applications that were approved, he said, included 245 citizenship by naturalisation and 90 citizenship by registration.

He said: “The Ministry of Interior memo is granting of citizenship to non Nigerians who applied. This is a procedure that takes a number of steps. The last time this was done was in 2013. We have some backlog of these applications.

“Over 500 applications that we considered, out of these, 335 were recommended for citizenship and this memo was brought to council to that effect. Citizenship is either by naturalisation or by registration.
“There are 245 that applied for citizenship by naturalisation and the requirements to be met are clearly stated in section 26 of the constitution.

“Then there is citizenship by registration and that is what is popularly known as Niger-wives which is for women in foreign countries who married to Nigerian citizens. That is also clearly spelt out in section 27 of the constitution.

“So, the requirements are there and we considered them. Those who met the requirements, the advisory council recommended and sent to council for approval.

“So, today, FEC approved the recommendations of those who applied, 335 of them. 245 by naturalization and 90 by registration,” he said.

He explained that some of the applications were disqualified based on preliminary investigation.

http://investorsking.com/fg-extends-citizenship-to-335-foreigners/

interesting

Nice

Was expecting to see the country of those who applied for Nigerian citizenship either by naturalization or registration, but unfortunately this wasn't stated. I won't be surprised if they are from Niger, Chad and co

Interesting

Wonderful! So people still want citizenship of this Shiite hole!?

bonechamberlain:
Was expecting to see the country of those who applied for Nigerian citizenship either by naturalization or registration, but unfortunately this wasn't stated. I won't be surprised if they are from Niger, Chad and co

na those Lebanese dey plenty past...

Arabs and fulanis only.
No reasonable person unless criminals and terrorist would want Nigeria citizenship

terrorist only

the friend of my enemy is my enemy

I will be applying for citizenship by naturalization from Canada soon.

Hahahaha, it sound funny how somebody will apply for citizen in this God forsaken country.

People still apply for Nigerian citizenship? Wow and one man somewhere will be calling Nigeria a Zooooooooo

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Very strange story am sure many of them were from Chad, Niger, Benin and few Lebanese

Since 2013 only 500 applied for it while South Africa have up to 500,009 application since then till now.


Nigeria is a shiit hole

Agimor:
I will be applying for citizenship by naturalization from Canada soon.

that's better. Best of lucks