A total of 4,591,055 passports have been produced by the Nigeria Immigration Service between August 2019 and May 2023.
It stated that a total of 342,766 visas were issued within the years under review.
A breakdown showed that 70,582 were issued in 2019; 70,874 in 2020; 94,681 in 2021; 78,282 in 2022, while between January and May 2023, a total of 28,347 visas were issued by the service.The total number of international traveller movement into the country between August 2019 and May 2023 was put at 9,433,218.
In 2019, 1,123,754 movements were recorded; 1,579,667 in 2020; 2,750,846 in 2021; 2,998,306 in 2022 and 980,645 in 2023. Within the period under review, more than 150,000 stolen and lost travel document records have been uploaded into the INTERPOL’s database.All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.
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