Truthshotcrazy:

Yes they want to make nomadic Fulani Nigerians-indigenes of southern and north central states closer to their porous border.These people will not rest until this country is totally fulanised. Any Fulani nomad who wandered with his cows from Mali, Mauritania or elsewhere without valid travel documents to graze the cows in kogi or Bauchi will now claim statelessness and be granted citizenship thus becoming indigenes of those states & local governments they went to graze cows. From there thy breed more in the land, populate a portion of the region, start dragging lands with aborigines and will also start dragging for representation of fulanis in House of assembly .This is their plan.to flood the country with fulanis, grant all citizenship, fulanise/Islamize Nigeria.

You cannot compare this with the Russian Crimea or Donbass case sha. It’s quite different and more sensitive. Donbass in today Ukraine is mainly a Russian language speaking region. Despite Ukrainian being official language in Ukraine, over 70% of residents in Donetsk, Ukraine & 68% in Luhansk, Ukraine speak Russian according to 2001 census. Mali, Mauritania etc these stateless guys are flooding from was never part of Nigeria. Ukraine , just like Georgia,Lithuania,Latvia, Estonia, etc was a part of USSR with capital Moscow in the past. (Only Biafra or Yoruba nation should it secede in 2095, canbe called a part of Nigeria in the past for a similar analogy.)

The Russian crimea, Donbass case is a very sensitive matter erupting extreme reactions from all quarters since their history is intertwined. Take one of the founding fathers of Kherson,a city in Ukraine for example, IVAN GANNIBAL(1735-1801) and proudly listed among their heroes Past NOTABLE PEOPLE OF KHERSON UKRAINE IN ITS WIKIPAGE. He was born in ESTONIA, USSR, helped found the USSR city of Kherson in southern Ukraine, in 1779, was Buried in a Cemetery in Saint Petersburg. His father, was Abram Gannibal, who was brought to Tsar of Moscow from Africa and gifted as a servant to Peter the great to serve in his palace, was adopted by Peter the great as godson, rose to great heights in Russia empire under the Tsar, & his son IVan was a successful military man.

The Russian Crimea, Donbass case is quite sensitive with their history intertwined. They are like a case of father and children fighting each other. They should learn to compromise, carry out peaceful negotiations, conduct referendums and stop this unnecessary war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donbas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Gannibal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kherson

You present a brillant argument.

It's too late, the country is already deep in tribalism

God bless you. You're intelligent.
According to Nigerian constitution, no Nigerian can be stateless. Whatever state your parents came from automatically becomes your state. If your parents were not Nigerians, you too are not Nigerian, full stop! Statelessness shouldn't be an issue. Of course there's ulterior motive.

MrMcJay:
Does it now mean that a fulani pastoralist who waltzed into Nigeria from Mali, Mauritania or anywhere else without valid travel documents and is grazing his cows in Kogi or Ondo will now be granted citizenship simply because he claims to be stateless?

The ones in the forests will now claim to be indigenes of those states where they are and then they will give them a local government there. From there, they will get State House of Assembly seats and will start dragging land with the landowners.

That is how the crisis in Jos North started. They want to replicate the nonsense on a national scale.

No wonder Buhari said "only God can police the borders" when he was asked about the porous borders of the North. Meanwhile, the Southern borders were fully locked. This was their plan. Flood the country with fulanis and grant them citizenship all across the country.

Iagos:
Which one is statelessness? Tell them to come to my lagos. It is no man's land

Your Lagos indeed! "Awa omo eko amorawa awon atohun rinwa won mo arawon".The indigenes know themselves and the non indigines know themselves
LAGOS IS NOT A NO MAN'S LAND.

This is what you get when you don't keep records. Who is Nigerian? What accounts for those individuals online that claim that they are Nigerians yet are always cussing Nigeria and praising other African nations, are they really Nigerians? Why are so called Nigerians building universities in Benin Republic with Delta money? Why does Nigeria want to build railways for Niger Republic? Why when borders were closed so called Nigerians were more concerned about Togo? Is Atiku Cameroonian or Nigerian? Is the president Nigerian or from Niger Republic?

Actually, when you begin to view many so called Nigerians as not a actually Nigerians in origin but perhaps from other countries that grew up in Nigeria, the tragedy of Nigeria and why many hate Nigeria begins to make sense. They hate Nigeria because maybe they are not actually Nigerians. I've met both Hutu and Tutsi in the UK that loved Rwanda in spite of the butchery that occurred. And I mean these people were refugees in UK, given asylum by the UK in the aftermath of the atrocities, not recent Rewandies
But someone will claim that they are Nigerians and would be slagging off Nigeria eyeballs red with hate. Who else does this anywhere in the world? Now our so called leaders with questionable origins want to grant everyone in Nigeria citizenship. We are talking of refugees, nomadic Heardsmen, bandits, terrorists - everybody!

Hopefully this news is just one of the many fake items posted on Niaraland.

No one is stateless, make the effort to ascertain the origin of relevant persons, and document the hell out of them, rather than lazily grant mass citizenship in the form of amnesty to save cost. Remember Nigeria is targeted.

Eagba:
.if I'm to support you, you have to add no religion identification on all official document.

I more than agree to this as well. Move Nigeria to a truly secular state.