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CITIZENSHIP AND ITS CONCEPT

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INTRODUCTION     citizenship is a term that is used to express the status of individuals who passes full political and legal rights in a state.      It can also be define as a membership of a given state.some scholar in 2016 described citizenship as a membership in specific nation-state and the formal right and obligation that this membership entails.It connotes status and identity .     some scholars in 2012 posits that citizenship has three aspect,namely the citizens have a say in political decision making; access to courts of laws that are manned by co-citizens;who judge according to rules that equally applies to all citizens;and a guarantee of minimum socio-economic conditions of existence. therefor, citizenship connotes a status as well as well as a legal relationship that exist between an individual and the state. The relationship translate into performance of duties as well as obligations by the citizen on one hand and on the other hand ...