Category: Chapter 3. Citizenship
Chapter 4. Section 33. Right To Life
(1) Every person has a right to life, and no one shall be deprived intentionally of his life, save in execution of the sentence of a court in respect of a criminal...
Chapter 3. Section 32. Power to make regulations
(1) The president may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Chapter, prescribing all matters which are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are...
Chapter 3. Section 31. Persons deemed to be Nigerian citizens
For the purposes of this Chapter, a parent or grandparent of a person shall be deemed to be a citizen of Nigeria if at the time of the birth of that person such parent...
Chapter 3. Section 30. Deprivation of citizenship
(1) The President may deprive a person, other than a person who is a citizen of Nigeria by birth or by registration, of his citizenship, if he is satisfied that such a...
Chapter 3. Section 29. Renunciation of citizenship
(1) Any citizen of Nigeria of full age who wishes to renounce his Nigerian citizenship shall make a declaration in the prescribed manner for the renunciation. (2) The...
Chapter 3. Section 28. Dual citizenship
(1) Subject to the other provisions of this section, a person shall forfeit forthwith his Nigerian citizenship if, not being a citizen of Nigeria by birth, he acquires...
Chapter 3. Section 27. Citizenship by naturalisation
(1) Subject to the provisions of section 28 of this Constitution, any person who is qualified in accordance with the provisions of this section may apply to the...
Chapter 3. Section 26 . Citizenship by registration
(1) Subject to the provisions of section 28 of this Constitution, a person to whom the provisions of this section apply may be registered as a citizen of Nigeria, if the...
Chapter 3. Section 25 . Citizenship by birth
(1) The following persons are citizens of Nigeria by birth-namely- (a) every person born in Nigeria before the date of independence, either of whose parents or any of...