The headquarters of the Nigeria Immigration Service has denied allegations of a shortage of passport booklets in the country, following complaints from some Nigerians. Nigeria
The Nigeria Immigration Service has denied allegations of shortage of passport booklets in the country.
An investigation carried out by a NAN correspondent at the NIS headquarters in Abuja, revealed that applicants were seen waiting to collect their booklets. “When we have people thronging to the headquarters even with the workforce, you are going to overstretch them talk less of the transitional period where we are talking of migrating to the new passport,” he said.
NAN reports that the service had said that it would begin issuance of the new 10-year enhanced e-passport from April 29.President Muhammadu Buhari had on January 16, officially launched the new e-passport.
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