FG inaugurates new passport office in Lagos to 'address shortage gap' | TheCable
January 31, 2023 7:01 AM
The office was established by the Nigeria Immigration Service to further ease application, processing, and collection of the Nigerian international passport.no less than additional 14 passport front offices would be created in Lagos because the state accounts for 50 percent of all applications across the country.
“We will therefore need not less than 15 of these front offices in Lagos alone, to be able to cut the application waiting period to one week. “We are privileged to be witnessing the commissioning and take-off of this legacy project by the honourable minister of interior, Rauf Aregbosola, the purpose of which is to decongest traffic at the Ikoyi, Festac, and Alausa passport offices and bring services closer to indigenes of the largest local government area in Lagos state and its environs.
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