Passports: No More Complaints – Minister Tells CG NIS

Passports: No More Complaints – Minister Tells CG NIS

Adeboye   21:28:00   No comments:

The Minister of Interior, Lt Gen. Abdulraham Dambazua (rtd) Wednesday charged the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mr. Mohammed Babandede, to end complaints concerning the issuance of International Passports to Nigerians.

The Minister gave the charge at the headquarters of the Ministry in Abuja, while decorating the New Comptroller General of Immigration.
Also, the Minister told the Controller General of Nigeria Prisons Service, Mr. Ja’afaru Ahmed, who was also decorated, to add value to the Prison Service.
The Minister explained that their appointments were based on merit as they were screened along other officers.
Addressing the audience before decorating the CGs, Dambazua said: “We are here to decorate the Comptroller Generals of Immigration and Prisons respectively.
“These appointments were approved by Mr. President after going through rigorous selection which opportunities were opened to quite a number of very senior officers and of course these appointments are trust from the Nigerian public to you. You are now going to be in the public eyes, the expectation is very high. Do not look at this as personal, you are hear to serve the public on whose tax you survive, therefore l want to urge you that immediate, after your decoration go and setting down and hit the ground running.”

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Nigerians Decry Procedure For Replacement Of Lost International Passports

Nigerians Decry Procedure For Replacement Of Lost International Passports

Adeboye   20:16:00   No comments:

Nigerians seeking for the replacement of their lost International Passports or replacements base on change of name have decried the strenuous processes they face in doing this. They are alleging that they spend about N100, 000 to replace their passports as they have to travel down to the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS Headquarters in Abuja to obtain a fresh passport.

According to one Nkechi, who was at the Headquarters of the Immigration Service last week to replace her passport for change of name due to marriage, she had spent one week in Abuja in a hotel waiting to have her passport replaced.
She explained that she came in from Port Harcourt to replace her passport because of marriage and she had been staying in the hotel.
Nkechi is one among the numerous applicants who travelled to Abuja in other to replace their passports
But the Immigration Service has come in defence of the policy that all lost passport or replacement of passport base on change of name must be done in Abuja at the Headquarters of the Service.
According to the spokesperson of the Service, Deputy Comptroller immigration, Mr. Kings Ekpedeme the policy is to avoid multi issuance of passports to individuals.

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