(3) The President may withhold the registration of any declaration made under
subsection (1) of this section if(a) the declaration is made during any war in
which Nigeria is physically involved; or
(b) in his opinion, it is otherwise contrary to
public policy.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section.
(a) "full age" means the age of eighteen years
and above;
(b) any woman who is married shall be deemed
to be of full age.
30. (1) The President may deprive a person, other than a person who is a citizen of Nigeria by birth or
by registration, of his citizenship, if he is satisfied that such a person has, within a period of seven
years after becoming naturalised, been sentenced to imprisonment for a term of not less than three
years.
(2) The President shall deprive a person, other than a person who is citizen of
Nigeria by birth, of his citizenship, if he is satisfied from the records of proceedings
of a court of law or other tribunal or after due inquiry in accordance with regulations
made by him, that (a) the person has shown himself by act or
speech to be disloyal towards the Federal
Republic of Nigeria; or
(b) the person has, during any war in which
Nigeria was engaged, unlawfully traded with the
enemy or been engaged in or associated with any
business that was in the opinion of the president
carried on in such a manner as to assist the
enemy of Nigeria in that war, or unlawfully
communicated with such enemy to the detriment
of or with intent to cause damage to the interest
of Nigeria.
31. For the purposes of this Chapter, a parent or grandparent of a person shall be deemed to be a
citizen of Nigeria if at the time of the birth of that person such parent or grandparent would have
possessed that status by birth if he had been alive on the date of independence; and in this section, "the
date of independence" has the meaning assigned to it in section 25 (2) of this Constitution.
32. (1) The president may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Chapter, prescribing all matters
which are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed
for carrying out or giving effect to the provisions of this Chapter, and for granting special immigrant
status with full residential rights to non-Nigerian spouses of citizens of Nigeria who do not wish to
acquire Nigerian citizenship.
(2) Any regulations made by the president pursuant to the provisions of this section
shall be laid before the National Assembly.