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385 Candidates Received Nigerian Citizenship.
385 candidates received Nigerian citizenship.
“The applicants received approval after fulfilling all statutory and regulatory requirements for the award of Nigerian citizenship.”
NewsReport Indicated that following the FEC meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday, the Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola, informed State House reporters of this.
According to the minister, the categories of citizenship granted to the applicants are naturalization and registration.
The FEC today approved the granting of Nigerian citizenship by naturalization to 317 applicants and Nigerian citizenship by registration to 68 applicants.
“The applicants got the nod after meeting all the constitutional and administrative requirements for the grant of Nigerian citizenship.”
He said that the council also approved the full business case for a project on the National Fire Detection and Alarm System incorporating life safety systems, networking, monitoring, and dispersion in real-time.
According to him, the project will be a public-private partnership arrangement.
“At the completion of this, subscribers, Nigerians who so desire, will subscribe to an automatic fire alarm system that, if you have it in your house, will raise an alarm at each of the fire service stations nationwide, be it state or federal, to prompt firemen and officers to any such emergency.”
“It is going to be a cloud-based system, using the best modern technology, fully digitized to facilitate prompt response to any distress or emergency on fire.”
“It is at no cost to the government, but the subscription will be determined at the end of the entire process; it is not yet determined,” he said.
