Nigeria Immigration Service

The Nigeria Immigration Service on Friday said it recorded 81,003 non-ECOWAS foreign nationals legally resident in the country as at August 31.

Dambazau gave the warning in a statement issued by Yakmut Alhassan, Secretary to the Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons Services Board, on Tuesday in Abuja.

Their decision was announced after a joint meeting at the headquarters of the Imo State Police Command in Owerri on Monday

The Nigeria Immigration Service has decried alleged evasion of normal immigration clearance procedures by some passengers arriving the country from foreign trips.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the athletics are participating in the ongoing 2018 African Senior Athletics Championship in Asaba, Delta.

The command’s spokesman, Yusuf Salman, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Seme that 159 Nigerians were also refused departure rights  from Seme border during the period under review.

Part of the funds, according to the President’s request, will also be given to the Department of State Service and other security agencies for the same purpose.

Spokesman of the agency, Sunday James, dismissed the speculation in a statement in Abuja on Thursday.

Investigations by the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, revealed that the NIS was now issuing the “Ordinary Visa-On-Arrival’’ to visitors coming into the country.

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 service announced Jaja’s demise in a statement signed by its Comptroller-General, Muhammad Babandede, in Abuja.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that NIS recently handed over the Do-228 aircraft to the NAF for reactivation.

The Assistant Comptroller of Immigration was found stabbed to death at his home in the Sudanese capital city of Khartoum on Thursday last week

In a statement on Saturday, spokesman of the agency, Mr Sunday James, said the Comptroller-General, Muhammad Babandede, received the news with shock.

The NBS said this in a statistics on Immigration for 2017 posted on its website.

This followed the escape of Melaye from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, where he was earlier prevented from travelling out to Morocco by policemen and operatives of the Nigeria Immigration Service.

Sunday James, the spokesman of the agency, announced this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja.

The NCS showed its class throughout the match winning the first, second and third set 25-16.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the returnees arrived at the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at 10.30pm

Ortom made the call on Monday in Makurdi when the Comptroller of NIS, Mohammed Hamis, led other senior staff of the organisation on a courtesy visit to the governor.