![Polish_20220622_110022328.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmWoqyJ1sQUkuuGwyPzfDS94wbD3X3tr1g6xV4Ag8L46DE/Polish_20220622_110022328.jpg) [Source](https://unsplash.com/photos/lUaaKCUANVI) Greetings to you dear kids, Welcome to today's class. Today we will be talking about citizenship and naturalization. Meaning of citizen, merits and dismerits of having foreigners in our midst will also be discussed. At the end of this lesson there will be an exercise which you are all expected to participate.

# Meaning of Citizen

A citizen is someone who live in and is born in a particular country. For example, I live in Nigeria and I was born in Nigeria so I am a Nigerian citizen. A citizen has rights and responsibilities at where him or her live. ![jeison-higuita-tHcbQEzWSFs-unsplash.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmcZxZS5yMvQ2HfxjSUSVNG4NkyCxBccfehLXJPG2NqXJQ/jeison-higuita-tHcbQEzWSFs-unsplash.jpg) [Source](https://unsplash.com/photos/tHcbQEzWSFs)_{A citizen of a country} ## Outstanding qualities of a good citizen * A good citizen volunteer and is also active in the community. * A good citizen protect his or her environment * A good citizen is compassionate * A good citizen respect other people's properties * A good citizen works hard to follow the rules and regulations of his or country * A good citizen does not indulge in vicious habit * A good citizen is self-sacrificing, him or her put others people's interest ahead of his own. At this point some may asked, what about those that lives with us but are not from my country. Those ones are called foreigners. ## Who is a foreigner? A foreigner is a person who lives and works in another country other than where he was born. For example if I travel to United States of America live there and works there, I am a foreigner. Every country has foreigners living and working in it just as their citizens lives and work in other countries. This brings us to why foreigners live and work in our country. ### Reasons why foreigners are in our midst These are reasons why foreigners live in our society. * **Some work in their country's embassy:** Almost all countries on Earth have their embassies in Nigeria. In this embassies, their nationals are there working as representative of their home country. The head of any embassy is the ambassador or high commissioner. * **Some foreigners are in our midst because of sports competitions:** It will be in form of football, volleyball, handball, swimming, Chess and many others like field and track events among others. Events like the one mentioned above brings in foreigners for days, or weeks to our country. * **For studies and training:** Many people travel to different countries in the world for studies. For example in Nigeria we have many west African students studying on scholarship in many Nigerian schools. We also have many Nigerian citizens studying in the United States of America, Canada, England etc. * Some foreigners are in our midst as expatriate workers hired by our country to work in some of our healthy technical and sophisticated machines in the refineries, GSM companies and in our educational sectors. ![scott-blake-x-ghf9LjrVg-unsplash.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZjw9sw427DU29oUbtAutJV96Q8xKXcseszkebczUTmEW/scott-blake-x-ghf9LjrVg-unsplash.jpg) [Source](https://unsplash.com/photos/x-ghf9LjrVg)_{foreigners working as engineers in another country} * Some work and live in our midst as employees of International Organisations such as the United Nations organisation (UNO), The African Union(AU), Economic Community of west African states (ECOWAS) etc. ## Advantages of having foreigners in a midst * The coming of foreigners to Nigeria put an end to some evil practices in our culture. Some of the evil culture are human sacrifice, killing of twins babies etc. * Foreigners in our midst came with new scientific ways of diagnosing and curing diseases which have no answers prior to their coming. * Foreigners who stay in Nigeria have played a major roles in the educational sector. Many are in the universities teaching and researching. * Nigerian petroleum sector is being pioneered by foreigners, they have the technology of exploration. * In the construction sector they have played many major roles. Big Bridges and roads in Nigeria are built by foreigners example, Julius Berger and strabag. Let now consider some of the disadvantages of foreigners living in our midst. ## Disadvantages of foreigners being in our midst * Many of them repatriate home our money, thereby depleting our net national product (NNP) * Some of them are cheat, they dupe the citizens and the government. * Some who came to Nigeria has subjected Nigerians to errand boys even when Nigerians are qualified for some good positions. * Some foreigners come as spies to spy on our oil sector, especially to see how they can be involved in oil bunkering. # Naturalization Naturalization is a process of where a foreigner apply to be granted citizenship in another country. This can be done by applying to the presidency through the Federal ministry of Internal affairs. When the application is granted, such a person is said to be a citizen by naturalization. As a result he has right to all duties and obligations in the country. Naturalization is also called acquired citizenship. However, an applicant must fulfill some conditions before becoming a citizen of another country. The following are some conditions an applicant must met in order to become a citizen of another country. * He must be 18 years and above. Applicants below this age are not allowed. * He must have live in that country for some years, at least 10 years. * He must have displayed beyond doubt some good characters or behaviour. * He must have made some valuable contributions to the growth and development of the country. * He must be willing to live in the country. He can travel but must return to the country when he is through with what made him or her travel. # Homework task 1. Define citizen in your own words. 2. Explain who a foreigner is. 3. State 5 essential qualities of a citizen 4. State 3 merits and demerits of having foreigners in our midst 5. In not less than 50 words, state why people naturalize **Note:** Your answers should be peculiar to your country **Rules** * You must be a verified kid (No parent assistance) * Your homework post should be at least 300 words. *Post in steemkids Community and set aside at least 10% beneficiary to @steemkidss. * You must belong to any of these clubs, club5050 club75 and club100 * Use the hashtags "learnwithsteem, steemexclusive, yourcountry, assignment and your club status as part of your hashtag. * Drop your entry link at the comment section. All participants who perform well will be rewarded. Cc @steemkidss @ngoenyi @goodybest @eliany Written by @udyliciouz

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