By Kazeem Ugbodaga Kemi Badenoch, leader of the UK Conservative Party, has sparked controversy by claiming she cannot pass Nigerian citizenship to her children due to her gender. The statement, made during a CNN interview with Fareed Zakaria on July 20, 2025, was part of a critique of UK immigration policies, which Badenoch described as overly lenient compared to Nigeria’s. Badenoch, born in Wimbledon in 1980 to Nigerian Yoruba parents and raised partly in Lagos, argued that immigrants exploit the UK’s immigration system in ways their home countries would…
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