The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) says about 97,000 issued passport booklets still remain uncollected across the federation
The Nigeria Immigration Service says about 97,000 passport booklets remain uncollected across the country.Akuneme said half of the uncollected passports are in Lagos.
He added that there is difficulty reaching some of the owners of the unclaimed passports due to a lack of proper documentation caused by third-party involvement in the process.“Some of them engaged agents to help them in their passport processing, and these agents might be doing for a lot of persons,” the NIS spokesperson said.
“They end up dropping wrong contacts and thereby making it difficult to reach out to the owners of these passports when they are ready for collection. This is a big challenge. “There are booklets issued that are not collected. It is ironic. We don’t have a problem with booklets. We don’t have a shortage of booklets.“What we have had in the last one or two years is a sudden upsurge in the number of Nigerians wanting to travel. We felt it was also related to COVID-19.”Nigerians that NIS would commence “decisive steps” to fix the scarcity of passport booklets in the country.
Nigeria Latest News, Nigeria Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
NIS warns against sexual exploitation of minors in border communities - Punch NewspapersWorried by the high rate of sexual exploitation of minors and abuse of female migrants around border communities the Nigeria Immigration
Read more »
Nigerians Condemn Outrageous Tuition Fees’ Hike Across Universities, UNIMAID, UNIBEN, Others | Sahara ReportersBacklashes have continued to trail the recent increments in school fees of various publicly owned universities in Nigeria. SaharaReporters learnt that certain federal universities have hiked their students' tuition fees by more than 100% in the last 12 months. The University of Maiduguri in terror-ravaged Borno State, Northeast, was among the first to raise tuition. The institution hiked their medical students' tuition to N238,000 in January, up from less than N100,000. Tuition fees for law students were raised from N26,000 to around N104,000.
Read more »
FG to develop contingency plans to mitigate oil spills, protect wildlife | TheCableThe federal government says it would develop an effective oiled wildlife contingency plan to protect wildlife in the event of oil spills.
Read more »
Old videos being circulated to dent our image, says Nigeria high commission in UK | TheCableThe Nigeria high commission in the UK has asked members of the public to disregard old videos of the embassy making the rounds online. In a statement, the embassy said
Read more »
'They don't speak for us'--Ohanaeze disowns youth council | TheCableThe Ohaneze Ndigbo worldwide, the Igbo socio-cultural organisation, has disowned the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide
Read more »
Infinix launches all-new AIGC-Powered Folax voice assistant | TheCableInfinix has announced an all-new upgraded version of its intelligent voice assistant, Folax. The upgraded Folax features a highly expressive 3D digital human character and enhanced language abilities brought by
Read more »