Nigerians are responding to the House of Representatives’ passage of a measure that seeks to provide citizenship privileges to foreigners who marry Nigerian women.
The current rule only enables women married to Nigerian males to get citizenship.
Following a presentation by experts working with lawmakers on document amendments, the committee endorsed the bill.
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Joy Ezeilo, one of the experts, stated that the former criterion was discriminatory towards women.
The measure might be another step forward for women’s equality in Nigeria.
Nigerians, on the other hand, are not enthusiastic about the measure.
See Some Reaction Below:
Ensamy; “Wrong move, many Onyinbo that come to do business here in Nigeria will misuse it . Fly into Nigeria like today and the next day pick a girl around ikoyi registry , get married and jet out of Nigeria. Next time come and set up construction, mining, logistics etc companies with low or no tax as a Nigerian citizen. Shocked shocked.”
Timoleon; “Advantages of being a Nigerian citizen? Taaaa! Even the Nigerian women aren’t marrying the foreign nationals so that their husbands can become Nigerians. The women are marrying to aid their escape from Nigeria and to become nationals of a country other than Nigeria.”
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Adefemi007; “What are the advantages of being a citizen of Nigeria in the first place?”
Inoki247; “Lol so if a foreigner marry person she go turn Nigerian automatically. We wey b Nigeria abg wetin b d Advantage… Bkuz me I neva see the advantage of been a Nigeria wey u say mak anoda person come become citizen, Country wey don full already wey we no see d resources share u wan come add to it….”
Penguin2; “This is what feminists should be expending their energy on; not teaching women to learn karate and be kicking their spouses.”
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