The Yobe State command of the Nigeria Immigration service has intercepted a toyota hiace bus, (with registration number 10B-87GM, Gombe state) carrying 21 minors from Labule and Ibeto towns of Magama local government area in Niger State to Maine Soroa in Niger Republic. The minors between the ages of 7 and 15 years were intercepted […]
•Immigrations officers The Nigeria Immigration Service NIS has blocked about 14 persons of interest who had been flagged internationally, and prevented them from entering into the country. Interior minister, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo disclosed this today at the Service’s headquarters in Abuja when he unveiled the NIS Career Progression and Trainin...
•Civil Defence operatives on parade The federal government has approved the promotion of 20,867 senior officers across various ranks in paramilitary agencies under the Ministry of Interior. The Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire, and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB) announced this on Friday in Abuja. Addressing newsmen after the board’s meet...
•US President Joe Biden A Texas judge yesterday ordered a temporary pause on a policy that would streamline the process for spouses of US citizens to obtain legal status in the country, a blow to one of US President Joe Biden’s biggest immigration reform policies. Judge J. Campbell Barker granted a 14-day administrative stay in […]
•Favour Igiebor The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) is probing the destruction of the country’s passport by a lady and has also invited the woman for questioning. A viral video captured the female traveller identified as Favour Igiebor destroying the Nigerian Standard Passport – said to belong to her husband – at the Murtala Mohammed Interna...
•Comptroller General of Immigration, Kemi Nandap The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has suspended an Assistant Superintendent of Immigration II (ASI II), Okpravero Ufuoma, for allegedly soliciting financial gratification from a traveller. In a statement, a spokesman for the Service, Kenneth Udo, said the officer’s conduct, captured in a vid...
•Immigration officers Some officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) today in Benin, Edo State, assaulted Joy Odigie, a journalist with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Odigie had visited the Edo command of the service to interview its Public Relations Officer, Ake Kenneth, regarding a reported burglary at the command’s offices. A so...
•Immigration officers The Nigeria Immigration Service NIS has suspended one of its top personnel at the Murtala Muhammad International Airport MMIA, Lagos, Akomolafe Gbenga Michael, over multiple charges of alleged drug trafficking. Spokesman of the Service, DCI Kenneth Udo disclosed this in a statement issued today in Abuja. According to him,...
•Officers of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) The federal government has announced the date for the next stage of the recruitment exercise for the Nigeria Immigration Service and the Federal Fire Service. The Secretary of the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board, Ja’afaru Ahmed, said the recruitment would begin in ...
•Immigration officers The director general of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR), Dasuki Arabi, announced today, Friday, July 12, that after seventeen years of persistence, the government has resolved the outstanding severance benefits for 1,330 Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) officers who were disengaged during the 2006/2007 refor...
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