It got to a point that the NIS, under the watch of its former Comptroller-General, Mohammed Babandede, halted applications for new and renewal of passports to enable the service to clear backlogs of passport applications.
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Babandede made the announcement at a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja.
Babandede made the announcement at a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja.
Ali made this known at a joint news conference with his counterpart from Nigeria Immigration Service, Mohammed Babandede, in Abuja on Monday.
Speaking during a meeting with border stakeholders, comprising freight forwarders and security agencies on Thursday at Seme, Ali said the closure was not intended to hurt anyone but to protect the nations interests.
Ali gave the warning on Saturday in Calabar while addressing a joint parade of officers and men of the service and those of the Nigeria Immigration Service during an inspection visit to border posts in Cross River State.
The Nigeria Immigration Service in July issued no fewer than 2,194 visas on arrival to foreigners who arrived through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
A women’s rights activist, Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, has called for a state of emergency in the health sector in Nigeria, to check the menace of drug abuse and its effects.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, says the Federal Government has stepped up measures to address challenges of smuggling and insecurity at the nation’s borders.
The Nigeria Immigration Service has expanded its Visa-on-Arrival counters at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
Comptroller-General of Immigration Mohammed Babandede said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Marrakech, Morocco on Wednesday.
Felix Uche, the State Comptroller of NIS, said this on Tuesday during the launch of the boat at the Nigerian Navy Jetty in Calabar.
Mohammed Babandede, Comptroller-General, Nigeria Immigration Service, has said that the issuance of Nigerian Passport with 10 years validity will commence in December, 2018.
In a report made available to The Eagle Online, the Immigration Officer disguised as the second-in-command of the Nigeria Immigration Service in charge Lagos and and Ogun States
The Comptroller-Nigeria of the NIS, Mohammed Babandede, said this on Monday in Abuja, while delivering a lecture entitled: “Irregular Migration and Border Security Management in Nigeria’’ at the Nigerian Army Resource Centre.
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The Nigerian Immigration Service, headed by Mohammed Babandede, oversees the issuance of the country’s international passports, while the Service is under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, with Lieutenant General Abdulrahman Dambazau as Minister.
The NIS boss, who appeared before House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on the Disappearance, Return and Reinstatement of Maina, explained that the fugitive ex-pension boss holds a US passport, a Nigerian passport and another Nigerian passport that has expired
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The NIS said the condition applied to both first-time applicants and those renewing their expired document