The committee of the House of Representatives established to further alter the 1999 Constitution has adopted the bill seeking to confer citizenship rights on foreigners married to Nigerian women.

The committee adopted the bill following its presentation by consultants working with the lawmakers on the amendment of the document.

It is potentially another progress for women towards equality at the ongoing public hearing on the review of the Constitution.

The lawmakers had agreed to the creation of extra seats for women in federal and states constituencies, although, the 35 per cent affirmative action was rejected.

Joy Ezeilo, one of the consultants working with the committee, while presenting the recommendation of the consultants, said existing provision in the constitution is discriminatory against women.

The existing law only allows citizenship by registration to be conferred on foreigners married to Nigerian men.
She said the bill seeks to amend section26 (2a) of the 1999 Constitution by opening citizenship by registration to male and female.

The Deputy Speaker, Idris Wase, who chairs the committee, while speaking on the bill, called for more clarification on the specifics regarding the bill.

According to him, even in Nigeria, there are differences in culture as regards the rights of spouses in Nigeria.

Despite the concerns, the bill was adopted by the lawmakers.


However, the proposal would still follow Nigeria’s rigorous constitutional amendment procedure, including passage by both chambers of the National Assembly, approval of at least 24 of the 36 state legislatures and presidential assent.

Timoleon:
Advantages of being a Nigerian citizen?

LtChisom:
Nigeria Next presidiot.
It shall never be well with scammers.
On the scale of failures, this one will be epic.
No be this thing say make we youths join the military and be chewing cassava day and night?
Kai! At least we knew buhari had dementia but this one has taken it up to another level. This is a hybrid of
dementia 3.1
schizophrenia 4.5
Parkinson's disease 5.0
Alzheimer’s 10.2 hence his dementia
Chronic high blood pressure 5.4
Huntington’s disease 7.0
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease 4.2

PVC means Permanent Voters Card but the idiot forgot, Buhari will be way bester(sic) than this vagabond but some illiterates even educated complicated buffoons will try to repackage this skeletal malignant bag of cancerous tissues as their president. Its like they love chewing cassava.
This is buhari pro max + loading, una teeth go grind concre if you keep your path along this dirty, selfish and greedy direction.
At least buhari had only ear problem and rusted skull, this one has noting in his skull, no organ in him is functioning well hence his continuous trip to france to recharge his battery, change his piston and rings and do his wheel balancing. This old man has noting to offer Nigerians but some 30k live support bastards already sold their destinies and souls including those of their unborn children on a paltry sum.

So am going to invite some chair persons to deliberate on what they have to say.

Over to you guys:
N/B: from today I will be referring this thing as narco cos drugs have finished his internal organs, na patch patch life support the narco dey use live now.

How can Nigeria be the first country to have a president that doesn't brush his teeth?
Make una check am.

Yoruba muslims will keep betraying this country to doom.

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Am publicly declaring my support for osibanjo for now.