By Michael Owhoko, Ph.D LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With athriving and fertile environment for extortion and racketeering, process for obtaining the Nigerian passport has turned the booklet into a hire purchase document where applicants pay official cost at point of application, connoting preliminary downpayment, and thereafter compelled to pay a bribe as balance in installments or…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) said the agency is automating passport application process, in order to eliminate stress and delay for Nigerians. The Acting Comptroller General, NIS, Caroline Adepoju disclosed this while speaking in an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday. Adepoju noted that the Service is trying to…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The spokesperson for Atiku Presidential Campaign Organization, Daniel Bwala has alleged that Nigeria Immigration service issued Peter Obi’s imposter international passport sharing his identity. Bwala who gave the information on Friday said that Obi should ask the court to compel the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Nigerian government to provide the impersonator whom the…
LAGOS JANUARY12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Immigration Service ( NIS) on Tuesday said about 140,000 international passports are still uncollected nationwide. The service spokesman, Deputy Comptroller of Immigration Service ( DCI) Mr Tony Akuneme, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) , when he paid an official visit to the Alausa…
LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Comptroller General of Immigration, Isah Jere Idris was yesterday 11th October 2022 conferred with the National Honours Award of the Member of the Order of the Federal Republic(MFR) by the President and Commander-in-Chief, His Excellency Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, at the International Conference Centre Abuja. The honour is in recognition of his…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Comptroller General of Immigration (CGI) IsahJere Idris has today met with top management staff of the Service, Zonal Coordinators and Comptrollers of Commands/Formationsat the Service Headquarters in Abuja for operational briefing as part of preparatory activities for the forthcoming general elections in 2023. During the meeting, the CGI reiterated government’s commitment…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As part of the ongoing reform efforts to deepen staff skills and competences as well as improve on career prospects, the Service in conjunction with the International Centre for Migration Policy and Development (ICMPD) shall kick off a Four-Day Technical Working Committee meeting at the Lagos Sheraton Hotel on 26th-29th September, 2022….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) has announced the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) as the best performing agency of government in the area of complaints resolution for the Month of August 2022 making it the fourth time in this year that the Service has been recognized as the best performing agency…