The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has achieved a significant milestone, with the capability to deliver between 4,000 and 5,000 passports in just five hours, according to Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo.
This announcement came following an inspection of the newly constructed Centralised Passport Personalisation Centre at the NIS Headquarters in Abuja on Thursday.
With this new infrastructure, the NIS can now personalise over 1,000 passports per hour, a dramatic increase from the previous capacity of 250 to 300 passports daily.
“This morning (Thursday), alongside the Permanent Secretary, Dr. Magdalene Ajani, and the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Kemi Nanna Nandap, I inspected the newly built Centralised Passport Personalisation Centre at the NIS headquarters in Abuja,” Tunji-Ojo stated.
He emphasized that these strategic infrastructural investments, which did not incur any costs to the government, have transformed the passport processing system. “To put it into perspective, long before this development, the service could only record an average of 250 to 300 passports daily. But today, under five work hours, the service can now deliver about 4,500 to 5,000 passports,” he added.
This centralisation marks a historic change, ending the production of passports at multiple centres worldwide for the first time in 62 years.
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