The federal government of Nigeria has approved in increase in the cost of obtaining the country’s passport. The spokesperson of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), KT Udo announced the new passport fees in a statement released on Wednesday. Udo said the increase of the passport fee by the federal government is “part of its efforts […]
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The Nigerian Senate has directed its Committee on Interior to urgently investigate the circumstances leading to the delay of issuance and renewal of the Nigeria passport by the Nigerian Immigration Services. The Upper Chamber also mandated the committee to investigate the contract award for the production of passports and revert to it on the findings […]
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The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has secured the conviction of three civil servants and a businessman for defrauding one Alhaji Bala Rabiu of N900,000 for fake Immigration jobs purportedly secured for six of his children. The convicts, Jibrin Babagana, a businessman, Mohammed Rabiu Isa, a civil servant with the State […]
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The Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, have sued the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and others over controversy surrounding David Ukpo’s real age. Others mentioned in the suit are the Comptroller General (C-G), Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS); Stanbic-IBTC Bank; United Bank of Africa (UBA) and Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc […]
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The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has disclosed the real age of Nwamini David Ukpo, the man at the centre of the alleged transplant saga involving former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice. The Comptroller General of NIS, Isa Jere, stated Ukpo is actually 21 years and not 15 as reported in many […]
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The Nigeria Immigration Service has raised an alarm over plans by suspected foreign insurgents to attack the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and its environs. Reports had it that the NIS made this known in a letter dated December 23, 2021, signed by the Land Border Patrol Commander, Edirin Okoto, on behalf of the Acting Comptroller General […]
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The Federal Ministry of Interior has spoken on the fire incident that took place at the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) on Sunday, 10 January, 2021. According to a statement by Muhammed Mangal, Director, Press and Public Relations of the Ministry on Monday, 11 January, 2021, there was no life lost in the incident while no […]
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The comptroller-general of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mohammed Babandede, has tested negative for COVID-19. Recall that comptroller-general had tested positive for the disease after he returned from the United Kingdom on March 22. He went into self-isolation afterwards. In a tweet on Tuesday, Babandede said he has tested negative twice for COVID-19. “I just receive […]
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Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has commenced registration for the issuance of the new 10-year electronic passports to Nigerians. NIS public relations officer, Sunday James disclosed this on Monday, when he took journalists around the data capture centre in the federal capital territory (FCT). The new passport is expected to integrate details of enrollees as captured […]
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The Federal Government of Nigeria has strongly condemned the assassination of a Nigerian immigration attaché, Habibu Almu, at the Nigerian Mission in Khartoum, Sudan. According to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Tope Elias-Fatile, on Friday, the federal government described the killing as “unfortunate”. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has received an […]
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