JAMB - Government (2002 - No. 3)

Citizenship in a modern state expresses the status of a person who possesses full political rights.

This is so as a person who is a legal member of a state is citizen of that state. He must also owe allegiance to that particular state he resides and then enjoys full civil and political rights and will be ready to put his life at stake in defence of that country whenever occasion calls for that