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Immigration Service resumes passport issuance
The Nigerian Immigration Service will begin to accept applications for passports from June 1, 2021, the Comptroller General of the service, Mohammed Babandede, has disclosed.
The Comptroller General stated this while briefing the Journalist in Abua, explaining that reopening acceptance of applications followed the decision to clear all backlog this month.
He said from the first of next month, every application will take six weeks for the booklets to be collected.
He called on all Nigerians who have applied for the booklets to check for text messages alerting them for collection.
Mohammed Babandede further said the service has been repositioned to deliver on her mandate.
The Nigeria Immigration Service had closed all passport issuance offices on the 17th of this month to enable it clear all backlog of over sixty thousand booklets as directed by the Minister of Interior Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.
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