Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, the Minister of the Interior, said that for the first time in 62 years, the Nigerian Immigration Service can now issue 4,000 to 5,000 passports in five hours.
He said this in a statement yesterday after visiting the new Centralized Passport Personalization Center at the NIS Headquarters in Abuja, according to Channels TV.
Tunji-Ojo claimed that with the new infrastructure, the Service could personalize more than 1,000 passports in an hour, up from 250 to 300 passports a day.
“This morning (Thursday), I went to the NIS headquarters in Abuja to see the new Centralised Passport Personalisation Centre with the Permanent Secretary, Dr. Magdalene Ajani, and the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Kemi Nanna Nandap.
“The NIS can now personalize more than 1,000 passports in one hour thanks to these strategic infrastructure investments that didn’t cost the government a kobo.
“To put this in context, the service could only record an average of 250 to 300 passports a day before this happened. But now, in less than five hours of work, the firm can send out roughly 4,500 to 5,000 passports.
He said, “This centralization ends the production of our passports at multiple centers around the world for the first time in 62 years of the service [NIS].”
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