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Trump. Mrs. Florence Okah-Avae, host of the radio programme, Mending Minds with Flo, on Unilag Radio FM 103.1 and wife of my former Oga, Architect Justus Okah-Avae, invited me to her radio programme last Tuesday The topic: The Proposed Cancellation of US Citizenship by Birth, its Social Implications for Nigerians. The US President, Donald Trump, has expressed his intention to cancel this constitutional provision under the 14th Amendment, which guarantees automatic US citizenship to children born on American soil, be they children of American citizens, illegal immigrants or visitors to America with non-immigrant visas. What are the social implications for us? Personally, whatever America decides to do is not of interest to me. The question is why are Nigerians acquiring dual citizenship for themselves and/or their children? It is because they have lost faith in Nigeria. They have lost faith in the government.

The Nigeria Intervention Movement, NIM, yesterday, commended former President Olusegun Obasanjo, for urging Nigerians to join forces to bring about a Coalition for Nigeria that will rescue the country from the impunity of the two dominant parties in Nigeria; PDP and APC.   It will be recalled that Obasanjo earlier yesterday charged Nigerians to henceforth seek their political and economic salvation in the direction of a political third force outside the two dominant parties in Nigeria; PDP and APC, whom he said have both grossly disappointed the people of Nigeria. In a statement by Deputy Director General, Media, Communications, Publicity, Mallam Naseer Kura, the NIM said: “NIM affirms that Obasanjo’s historic clarion call to the Nation at its formative stage has profoundly validated the initiative of NIM’s Conveners to facilitate an all inclusive, non partisan pan Nigerian political third force to rescue the country from the impunity and lack lustre performance of traditi...