Tag: NIS
Nigeria’s Kemi Nandap emerges chairperson of ECOWAS immigration heads
Comptroller-general of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) Kemi Nandap has emerged as chairperson of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) heads of immigration...
Buhari inaugurates NIS technology building, urges improved security
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to improve surveillance and control around the nation’s borders to check the activities of...
Egypt-bound girls arrested in Lagos with tampered passports
Immigration officers on Thursday arrested two girls at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos with tampered passports.
Due to "an imposed fake identity of the true...
#EndSARS: Why we seized Modupe Odele’s passport – Immigration
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) on Thursday night said it has the powers to restrict movement following concerns it seized the passport of an...
Anthony Joshua visits Ikoyi Passport Office
Unified heavyweight boxing champion, Anthony Joshua, was at the Ikoyi Passport Office, Lagos on Thursday, two days after registering for his Nigerian national ID...
All Africans can come to Nigeria without visa from 2020 –...
Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, says the Federal Government has approved that all Africans can enter Nigeria without a...
Loyalty to Nigeria non-negotiable – Aregbesola
Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbosola, has said that the
loyalty of Nigerians to the country is non-negotiable.
Speaking on Thursday in Benin at the opening ceremony...
FG reorders closure of land borders for elections
The Federal
Government has reordered the closure of the nation’s borders for the Presidential
and National Assembly elections scheduled to take place on Saturday.
Comptroller-General,
Nigeria Immigration Service...
FG orders re-opening of borders
Following a
change in date for the general elections, the Federal Government has ordered
the re-opening of all the nation’s borders which were closed due to...
9-month-old baby, others rescued from traffickers in Katsina
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Katsina State
Command, has rescued a nine-month-old baby and nine other minors from suspected
human traffickers.
Katsina NIS Comptroller, Ajisafe Olusola, disclosed...