More than 5000 passport applications have been abandoned at Ikoyi Passport Office since the resumption of issuance on June 8, 2021, THISDAY has learnt. THISDAY also learnt that everyday applicants throng to the office and leave without positive response from the Nigerian Immigration Service officials. One of the applicants who wished to renew his passport […]
The Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Service (CGIS), Muhammad Babandede has said that the era of multiple identities is over with the new passport that is integrated with National Identification Number (NIN) and biometric Verification Number (BVN). Babandede made this known yesterday at the official commissioning of projects for the Nigerian Immigration Service undertaken […]
Touts who assist applicants at the passport offices in Lagos located at Alausa, Festac and Ikoyi rake in about N3.9 billion annually in connivance with some officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), THISDAY has learnt. THISDAY investigations gathered that the official cost of the passport, including the cost of lost case and change of […]
