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THEY ARE NOT FROM OUR STATE: THE POLITICS OF CITIZENSHIP; A POLITICAL PARALYSIS TO NATIONAL INTEGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

Toyin Cotties Adetiba

Volume: 3 Issue: 3 2013

Abstract:

Citizenship no doubt is an important ingredient in the integration of groups in a multiethnic state which requires a direct sense of community membership based on loyalty to the country with rights protected by a common law. Citizenship question in Nigeria as laid on the altar of ethnicity and other primordial factors heightens sentiments among groups thereby depriving the country of the needed loyalty; thus jeopardizing national integration. This work investigates the uncivil systemic prejudiced policies; motivated by ethnic consciousness used by different states in the country to protect the socio-political and economic rights of their citizens in contemporary Nigeria

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