By Omeiza Ajayi
ABUJA: The Nigeria Immigration Service NIS has assured Nigerians that the ongoing centralisation of passport booklet production will not disrupt passport processing and issuance at any of its offices across the country or at Nigerian embassies and consulates abroad.
The clarification was contained in a statement on Wednesday night by the Service Public Relations Officer, DCI Akinsola Akinlabi, who said the reform had generated public enquiries and misconceptions following the phased migration of passport production from state passport offices to the Central Personalization Centre at the NIS Headquarters in Abuja.
According to the Service, the migration is strictly an operational reform designed to modernise Nigeria’s passport issuance system by strengthening its security, integrity and efficiency, and does not affect the ability of applicants to process or obtain passports from their preferred passport offices.
“The migration of production in passport offices to the Central Personalization Centre is purely operational and does not in any way stop the processing and issuance of passport at any passport office within the country or at designated Nigeria’s Embassies and Consulates abroad,” the statement said.
