The Comptroller General of the Immigration Service (CGIS), Kemi Nandap disclosed this on Thursday while declaring open the 3rd Nationwide Sensitization Campaign on ensuring efficient Service Delivery through Zero Tolerance for Corruption which was held at the Service’s headquarters in Abuja.
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A statement issued by the Service Public Relations Officer, Akinsola Akinlabi, quoted the NIS Comptroller General, Kemi Nandap, as saying that the contactless passport application system will be introduced in Europe on February 7 (today).
Reports of the arrest got rife on social media around mid-day after controversial social media critic, Martin Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan
DCI Kenneth Udo, spokesman of the Service, disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja.
The Secretary of the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board, Ja’afaru Ahmed, made this known in a statement on in Abuja on Sunday.
Nandap gave the charge on Friday while addressing Kongolam border community in Katsina State, as part of her assessment tour to border posts in the country.
The Comptroller-General of the NIS, Caroline Wuraola Adepoju, made the revelation on Tuesday during a webinar.
The Minister also decorated six officers of the Service confirmed as Deputy Comptrollers-General.
Comptroller NIS at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, Adesola Adesokan, received them.
The Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has confirmed the clearance of about 60,000 passport backlog by the Nigerians Immigration Service in four days out of over 200,000 pending passport applications.
As countdown begins to the 4th Journalists International Forum For Migration (JIFORM) Global Migration summit in Toronto, Canada, the President of the non-profit body of over 300 journalists and other volunteers, Dr Ajibola Abayomi, has held a strategic meeting with a former Secretary of State and Minister of Immigration in Canada, Honourable Gerry Weiner and a Director of Immigration, James Metcaife.
The assurance was given during a one-day workshop in preparation for the Year 2022 International Civil Defence Day.
He made the call during a joint stakeholders dialogue on Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants on Wednesday in Abuja.
Olagbegi disclosed this via her Instagram page.
The Cross River State Comptroller of NIS, Okey Ezugwu, who briefed the News Agency of Nigeria on the incident in Calabar, said the suspected child trafficker, Maureen Awokara, was arrested on December 19, 2020 at the high sea.
The deceased, who hailed from Mokwa, Niger State, died last Thursday, while his sister passed away on Wednesday.
“The plaintiffs in the case followed the rules, and did everything they were supposed to do. They had planned to build a new life in the United States of America,” lawyer Curtis Lee Morrison, based in Los Angeles, told el Nuevo Herald.
Raphael, a Senior Immigration Inspector from the Rivers Marine Command, Nigerian Immigration Service in Onne, Rivers, was abducted alongside three others by suspected militants on Tuesday.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday declared six-month amnesty to migrants who had stayed in Nigeria beyond 90 days without resident permit.
The Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons Services Board has approved the abolition of dichotomy between holders of Bachelor’s Degree and Higher National Diploma in the services under the Ministry of Interior.