Bumi Tunji-Ojo, the minister of Interior, has issued a two-week timeline for the processing of the Nigerian passport
Speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, the minister said the Nigeria Immigration Service has cleared over 204,000 backlog of passport applications in the last three weeks.
“On September 7, we made a promise to sort out the backlogs in two weeks but we made it in three weeks and I sincerely want to apologise to Nigerians for that,” he said.“The Renewed Hope administration of President Bola Tinubu is one that matches its words with actions.“Visa is a privilege but passport is a right and we are happy that today, we have been able to handle over the rights of Nigerians to them.“For us, we are assured that if it can work in NIS, it can work anywhere else.
“We went into strategic meetings with the NIS and with the support of our service providers, we were able to increase printing machines to four in passport offices where we had two. Our service providers gave us the machines at no cost.
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