Nigerian passports FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

How Protracted Scarcity of Booklets Paralysed Activities at Passport Offices Nationwide

  For over a month and one week, there has been scarcity of passport booklets at all the passport offices of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) nationwide. This is as the federal government has approved the increase of the price of the document by September 1, 2024. THISDAY investigation revealed that the situation has created […]

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

As Immigration Sets Up Panel for Woman Who Tore Husband’s Passport

Last Saturday a woman, Favour Igiebor,  tore up her husband’s international passport on arrival at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, (MMIA), Lagos before security operatives and other travellers. She had returned from Europe alongside her husband and children and landed at the Lagos airport. Shocked and enraged security officers, including that of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) accosted her […]

TRAVEL

NIS: Over 3.6m Nigerians Migrated in Two Years to Other Countries in Search of Better Opportunities

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has disclosed that over 3.6 million Nigerians migrated to other countries within a space of two years. The Controller, Murtala Muhammed International Airport Command, Mrs. Adeola Adesola Adesokan, disclosed this in a speech during the facility tour of the remodeled ‘E Wing Arrival’ at the airport. She said data from […]

Aviation

NIMC’S Inability to Provide Applicants with Identification Number, Halts Passport Processing

The inability of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to provide the National Identification Number (NIN) to Nigerians seeking international passport and renewal, is delaying the processing of passports, THISDAY investigation has revealed. It was learnt that the development has left many passport applicants stranded and unable to obtain or renew their international passports. NIMC, […]

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Immigration Introduces Special Visa Class to Promote Foreign Direct Investment

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has concluded plans to introduce special visa on arrival, known as Business Trust Visas for foreigners who are coming into the country for the purpose of investment. Currently the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos Command of NIS said it issued 53,644 Visa on Arrival (VoA) to foreigners in 2022 and intends to double this […]