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Why We Inaugurated Mgt Board for Proceeds of Migrants -Nigeria Immigration

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has given the reason for inaugurating the management board of the Objects of Smuggling of Migrants Trust Fund. The new development, according to a statement by the NIS Public Relations Officer, Amos Okpu, is aimed at combating frontally the menace of smuggling of migrants by traffickers through proper management of the proceeds of the crime. Mr Okpu said the agency derives the power to inaugurate the management board from Section 97 of the Immigration Act, 2015. READ ALSO Ease of Doing Business: Nigeria Immigration Ranked…

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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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NIS Heightens Nigeria 5330km Border Security, Graduates 548 Cadets

ADEOLA YUSUF

Minister, NIS Boss task new men on roles at border   The Nigeria’s minister of interior, Rauf Aregbesola, and the acting comptroller general of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Isah Jere Idris, have reiterated the agency’s management and security of Nigeria borders covering 5,330 kilometres. Platforms Africa reports that Aregbesola and Idris who said this at the passing out parade for participants of the 47th Superintendent Basic Course at the NIS training school in Kano on Tuesday, declared to the newly inducted 548 cadets that the “overriding reason for their employment…

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