The officers were arrested for allegedly trying to facilitate the trafficking of six underage girls to Omar and Kuwait on an Ethiopian Airlines flight.
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Babandede stated this on Tuesday in Makurdi while fielding questions from newsmen.
Addressing the newly-promoted officers on Tuesday in Bayelsa State, William Oche, the Comptroller of the Command, urged them to be more dedicated to their duties and brace up for more responsibilities
She said that the suspects had been handed over to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons alongside the victims
The Comptroller of the command, Muhammad Rabi’u, made the disclosure in Katsina on Thursday at the decoration of 121 newly-promoted officers of the service
In a Staff Posting Order vide NIS/ABJ/1027/VV/T111/562 dated 2nd September, 2015, the incumbent spokesperson of the NIS, Assistant Comptroller CPP Obua has been moved to Lagos Command while Deputy Comptroller, Ekpedeme King has been deployed to replace him as the Service Public Relations Officer.
Girish Narayan Sanadhyaha, a Hindu of 3B, 2nd Street, Osbourne Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos, has held several positions in Nigeria, among which were being the former Managing Director NIPCO Plc and the Chief Executive Officer of Lekki Port in Lagos State
In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the verbal directive led to the total withdrawal of the stated personnel from the border posts in the two states, leaving the posts unmanned
Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has called on the officers and men of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to be more vigilant to check the influx of foreigners into the state.
NAN also recalls that in March, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, in a statement announced the setting up of a committee to assist the Paramilitary Board in conducting a fresh exercise
Some of the delegates made further recommendations on the submissions made by the committee
HURIWA reasoned that if the current state of heightened insecurity and terrorism is not checked through a combination of strategies, including a border fencing project, then sooner rather than later, the business and investment climate in Nigeria will deteriorate and Nigerians may begin mass exodus, thereby crippling such huge businesses as the thriving cement industry in Nigeria
Haruna said the service arrested 170 illegal immigrants, out of which 80 were screened and ascertained that they had no genuine permits to live in Nigeria
He said that government carried out the repatriation because many Nigerians abroad could not make ends meet and had no source of income, which made living difficult while others were in countries being ravaged by conflicts
Jere made this known during interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Dutse, the Jigawa State capital