•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...
A Gombe State High Court has sentenced an employee of the Nigerian Immigration Service, Dabiet Gilbert, to one year in prison for a job scam. Gilbert was accused of defrauding Akoh Accoustic of N800,000 with the promise of securing a job placement with the Nigerian Correctional Services, reports The PUNCH. Gilbert’s charge read, “That you [&he...
The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has drawn the attention of Nigerians to fake and invalid employment letters in circulation purportedly issued by the service. The NIS made this known in a statement by its Public Relations Officer (SPRO), Mr Kenneth Udo, in Abuja yesterday. Udo warned desperate job seekers to exercise caution so as not [&...
•Embattled ex-Gov Yahaya Bello The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has placed former Kogi Governor Yahaya Bello on watch list. The NIS called for Bello‘s arrest at any point of exit or entry into the country by security agencies. In a letter by an Assistant Comptroller of Immigration, D S Umar on behalf of the Comptroller-General, […]...
•Sunak The UK government announced a five-point plan in December 2023 to cut net migration by around 300,000 people per year, starting in spring 2024. The plan includes the following changes to immigration rules: • Ban most overseas students from bringing their families to the UK. • Ban overseas care workers from bringing dependants. • [&helli...
•Kemi Nandap President Bola Tinubu has appointed Kemi Nanna Nandap to serve as the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS). This was disclosed in a statement today by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, saying the appointment takes effect from March 1, 2024. “DCG Nandap takes over fr...
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