{"id":171370,"date":"2025-07-26T13:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/dabiri-erewa-denies-badenochs-nigerian-citizenship-claim"},"modified":"2025-07-26T14:44:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T13:44:36","slug":"dabiri-erewa-denies-badenochs-nigerian-citizenship-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dabiri-erewa-denies-badenochs-nigerian-citizenship-claim","title":{"rendered":"Dabiri-Erewa Denies Badenoch&#8217;s Nigerian Citizenship Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has taken a swipe at United Kingdom Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch, over her recent claim that Nigerian law prevents her from passing citizenship to her children because she is a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Dabiri-Erewa stated this on Friday, when she appeared as a guest on \u2018Hard Copy\u2019, a programme on Channels Television, describing Badenoch\u2019s remarks as \u201cmisleading\u201d and \u201centirely untrue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the NIDCOM boss, Badenoch\u2019s claim was against Section 25(1)(c) of the 1999 Constitution, which says a person born outside Nigeria qualifies for citizenship if either parent is a Nigerian citizen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut that is not true. Don\u2019t divulge false information. You go on international media and spin a lie \u2014 that is a lie \u2014 that is not even true. And I\u2019m sure people have responded,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She further argued that denigrating one\u2019s country publicly must be challenged, and while Nigeria supports its diaspora, no one can be forced to love their homeland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not true, so why tell us something that is not true? Do you know the number of Nigerians we have in the UK in the political space who are doing very well? We don\u2019t have to focus on one person, but when you denigrate your country, we reply to you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not about me, or the President, or you \u2014 it\u2019s about Nigeria. You can\u2019t lie about your country, and then we keep quiet. There are many who are doing very well politically. So ours is to continue to work with every Nigerian in the diaspora, but you can\u2019t force anybody,\u201d Dabiri-Erewa said.<\/p>\n<p>Badenoch had made the controversial claim during an interview, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s virtually impossible, for example, to get Nigerian citizenship. I have that citizenship by virtue of my parents. I can\u2019t give it to my children because I\u2019m a woman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYet loads of Nigerians come to the UK and stay for a relatively free period of time, acquire British citizenship. We need to stop being naive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has taken a swipe at United Kingdom Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch, over her recent claim that Nigerian law prevents her from passing citizenship to her children because she is a woman. Dabiri-Erewa stated this on Friday, when she appeared as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":171369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[811,18094,254],"class_list":["post-171370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-abike-dabiri-erewa","tag-badenoch","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dabiri-Erewa Denies Badenoch&#039;s Nigerian Citizenship Claim - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has taken a swipe at United Kingdom Co ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dabiri-erewa-denies-badenochs-nigerian-citizenship-claim\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dabiri-Erewa Denies Badenoch&#039;s Nigerian Citizenship Claim\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has taken a swipe at United Kingdom Co ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dabiri-erewa-denies-badenochs-nigerian-citizenship-claim\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-26T12:37:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-26T13:44:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753524995.088482.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"533\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dabiri-erewa-denies-badenochs-nigerian-citizenship-claim#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dabiri-erewa-denies-badenochs-nigerian-citizenship-claim\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Dabiri-Erewa Denies Badenoch&#8217;s Nigerian Citizenship Claim\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-26T12:37:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-26T13:44:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dabiri-erewa-denies-badenochs-nigerian-citizenship-claim\"},\"wordCount\":363,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dabiri-erewa-denies-badenochs-nigerian-citizenship-claim#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753524995.088482.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Abike Dabiri-Erewa\",\"Badenoch\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dabiri-erewa-denies-badenochs-nigerian-citizenship-claim#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dabiri-erewa-denies-badenochs-nigerian-citizenship-claim\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dabiri-erewa-denies-badenochs-nigerian-citizenship-claim\",\"name\":\"Dabiri-Erewa Denies Badenoch's Nigerian Citizenship Claim - 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