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Their tribalism is probably helped by the failure of the National Assembly to amend Part II Section 2 of the Federal Character Commission (Establishment) Act, which simply says “a married woman shall continue to lay claim to her state of origin”. The proposed amendment to include a married woman’s right to the indigeneship of her husband has been before the National Assembly since 2015!

Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 elections, Peter Obi, has congratulated Nigeria’s former Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on her recent appointment by the World Health Organization as a Special Envoy for WHO’s Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator.