For years, Nigerians and the entire world are inundated with tales of woes about degenerated services being rendered by the country’s public service.
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The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has commenced 24/7 production of passport booklets and issuance to applicants within a week after data capturing.
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.
With a thriving and fertile environment for extortion and racketeering, process for obtaining the Nigerian passport has turned the booklet into a hire purchase document where applicants pay official cost at point of application, connoting preliminary downpayment, and thereafter compelled to pay a bribe as balance in installments or in full, depending on the deal reached with Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) officials involved in this underhand deed. This is the practice nationwide.
The Acting Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service, Wuraola Caroline Adepoju, has approved the immediate reposting of 15 Passport Officers in a bid to strengthen the ongoing passport reform process.
This was contained in a statement issued by Sola Fasure, Media Adviser to the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola.
This was contained in a statement by the Service’s Public Relations Officer, Tony Akuneme, in Abuja on Saturday.
This was revealed by the Controller General of Immigration, Isah Jere Idris, during a virtual media interaction on Saturday.
Justice Inyang Ekwo also vacated the Dec. 21, 2021 order directing the NIS to pay N2 million fine for alleged failure to release the passport of former Governor of Rivers, Peter Odili, days after the prayer was granted.
Justice Inyang Ekwo handed out the order as a condition for the hearing of an application, filed by the NIS and its Comptroller General, for a stay of the court’s October 18, 2021 judgment, ordering them to release Odili’s passport and offer him a written apology.
Jere directed the taskforce to proceed to the Ikoyi Passport Office to ensure all existing backlog of Passport applications were cleared within one week.
Ishola stated this when he received Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) who paid him a courtesy call at the Mission House in London.
The new Comptroller of the command, Safiya Mohammed, announced this on Tuesday in Ibadan, at a sendoff for Usman Babangida, the outgoing Comptroller.
Babandede, while briefing newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja, said that a new passport regime would take effect from same date.
The NIN is mandatory for all Nigerians and eligibility is a dash to the enrolment centre where all your bio data is captured through a series of clicks on the computer mouse. Once your data is collected, you are given a transaction slip and depending on where in the universe is done, you are either given a NIN slip indicating enrolment, or you submit your phone number and email address for further communication.
Olagbegi disclosed this via her Instagram page.
Recall that she was stopped by the Nigerian Immigration Service from travelling outside Nigeria on November 1st.
Recall that The Eagle Online earlier reported that Odele’s passport was seized by the Nigerian Immigration Service on Tuesday, while attempting to leave the country for her birthday celebration.
Ngwuta was among seven superior court judges that were arrested between October 7 and 8, 2016 after operatives of the Department of State Services raided their homes in what it termed a “sting operation”.
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