You can live wherever you want in Nigeria.
One of the fundamental human rights every Nigerian enjoys is his or her right to live in any state or city in Nigeria of his choice whether or not he is from that region, state or city.
Every Nigerian has a right to peacefully cohabit in any area of their choice, you have the fundamental right to acquire properties in any part of Nigeria, build and settle in as much as you are complying with the local laws that rules that region.
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Most Nigerians are not aware of this right. They really do not know that a Fulani indigene or a Kanuri born or a Hausa man has the right to move to any state in the eastern Nigeria, acquire a property, build and settle there with his family and carry out his business. It is his fundamental right to live in any city of his choice, so also an Igbo man, an Ijaw man or a yoruba, an Ogoni man have it as his fundamental right to move to any deep part of the Northern state, acquire a property or properties, settle there and run his business there.
Every citizen of Nigeria, irrespective of your skin, your colour, your sex, your tribe, your religion and your language has it as a Fundamental Human Right to acquire or purchase properties in any region, own properties in any state, live in any location of his choice within Nigeria, trade and carry out his business in any part of the country.
This right was duly provided in s.43 of the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria, 1999 and it reads thus: Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, every citizen of Nigeria shall have the right to acquire and own immovable property anywhere in Nigeria.
