IMMIGRATION

Despite Improved Efforts, Applicants Squeak over Cumbersome E-visa, Passport Renewal Processes

Although the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has significantly improved the processes of obtaining e-visa and passport renewal in order to encourage investors and others travelling to Nigeria, complaints persist over the difficulties encountered in the processes, a development that is giving intending travellers a serious concern. For instance, the applicants said it takes too long […]

Uko FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Furore over Scrap of Visa on Arrival Policy

Travel experts, Immigration and other Nigerians have thumbed down on the plan by the federal government to scrap visa on arrival policy, saying that the decision is ill-conceived and urged the Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo to withdraw the decision and do more consulting in order to take a better decision that will benefit […]

TRAVEL

The Flipside of Air Travel Experience in Nigeria

Nigeria has so much to offer the world, from its culture to tourist destinations, but foreigners who may want to visit the country face hostility at Nigeria’s airports due to actions of security operatives. Over the years travellers leaving and coming to Nigeria narrate harrowing experience about the hostility, harassment and extortion that go on at the […]

Airports

FG Moves to Protect Passengers at International Airports

Recently, the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, hinted that the federal government has concluded plans to streamline the screening of passengers at the international airports and deploy security equipment to reduce human interface in order to end the allegation of the harassment of travellers by security operatives. It is also hoped that […]