The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has announced that the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has extended the commencement of the new passport regime earlier scheduled for June 1, 2021, by one week, to June 8, 2021.
This is to clear the backlog of teeming applicants turning up to collect their passports across various issuing centres, a situation that is now creating congestion.
This disclosure is contained in a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer of NIS, Mr. Amos Okpu, on behalf of the Comptroller-General of NIS, Mr. Muhammad Babandede on Tuesday, in Abuja.
Babandede noted that NIS had made significant progress in clearing the backlog of passport applications with a total of 230,500 applications cleared and passports produced.
