Tag: Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS)

We Are Automating Passport Application Process — Immigration

Abibat Babalola

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) says it is automating passport application process to reduce the stress and delay Nigerians experience while applying for passports. NIS Acting Comptroller General, Caroline Adepoju, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Thursday, said the Service is trying to eliminate human interface in the process of passport application. One thing Nigerians know about the Nigeria Immigration Service is the issuance of the Nigerian passport and we know the number of Nigerians that have applied for passports in the past two years have been…

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Organ harvesting: Ekweremadu, wife sue NIMC, NIS, banks

Abibat Babalola

Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, have sued the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and others over controversy surrounding the real age of David Ukpo, who was allegedly trafficked to the United Kingdom for organ harvesting by the couple. Others mentioned in the suit are the Comptroller General (C-G), Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Stanbic-IBTC Bank, United Bank of Africa (UBA), and Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc as 2nd to 5th respondents, respectively. Ekweremadu and his wife were, on Thursday, remanded in the UK police custody, after…

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BREAKING: Immigration Gets March Deadline to End Int’l Passport Scarcity

ADEOLA YUSUF

Acting CG, NIS explains how international passport application backlog will be cleared in three months   The International Passport scarcity rocking Nigeria will end by March, 2022, acting Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Isa Idris, has vowed. Platforms Africa reports that Idris who said this at a virtual press conference today, January 1, 2022, stated that the immigration has received 45,000 booklet yesterday, December 31, which will help in clearing the backlog of applications within and outside the country for international passports. Speaking on three key areas of focus for…

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