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FG announces contactless passport renewal for Nigerians

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.Says Tinubu’s leadership changing narrative without compromising national security By Ukpono Ukpong The Federal Government has revealed plans to introduce contactless passport solution, which will enable Nigerians to renew their passports without visiting passport offices. This

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Nigeria partners India to curb use of fake Nigerian passports to enter India

Ihesiulo Grace 6 February 2023 0

By Ukpono Ukpong The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has expressed the readiness of Nigerian government to cooperate with India on total eradication of fake Nigerian passports into India. Ogbeni Aregbesola gave this assurance while receiving the Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Gangadharan Balasubramanian, who was on a courtesy visit to his office in […]

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625,000 passports issued in five months – Aregbesola

Ihesiulo Grace 22 June 2022 0

By Ukpono Ukpong The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has said that no fewer than 625,000 passports has been issued to Nigerians desirous of acquiring the travel document in 2022 alone. Aregbesola disclosed this yesterday at the Rollout of the Enhanced e-Passport for Delta and Edo States, which held at the Passport Office Headquarters, Benin, […]

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Passports with unverified addresses to be deactivated

Ihesiulo Grace 12 April 2021 0

Ukpono Ukpong Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has ordered Nigerian Immigration Service to deactivate all passports with unverified addresses. Aregbesola handed down the policy directive at the maiden edition of the quarterly performance review meeting of Service Providers engaged by the Ministry and its Agencies in Abuja. He also disclosed that going forward, no

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FG establishes ‘Express Centre’ to help Nigerians to get passport in 72 hours

Ihesiulo Grace 5 April 2021 0

The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, on Sunday said the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) would soon start issuing passports to applicants in the 774 local government areas in the country within 72 hours. The minister, according to a statement issued by his media aide, stated this when he addressed journalists at the inauguration of the […]

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Breaking: Immigration suspends processing of Passports, Migrant e-Registration

Ihesiulo Grace 23 March 2020 0

By Ukpono Ukpong, Abuja Following the current outbreak and spread of the dreaded Coronavirus otherwise known as COVID-19, the Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service, Muhammad Babandede, has ordered the temporary suspension of processing of passport and Migrant e-Registration. According to a statement signed by the Service Public Relations Officer, Sunday James,

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Justice Ngwuta’s usage of 7 passports not genuine mistake- Witness

Ihesiulo Grace 6 October 2017 0

An official of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Nuhu Tanko Kutana and the 3th prosecution witness in the trial of Justice Sylvester Ngwuta of the Supreme Court on Friday told a Federal High Court in Abuja that the usage of four diplomatic passports, two standard international passport and one ECOWAS passport simultaneously was not a […]