Nigeria Immigration announces collection of passports, fresh enrollments

The Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, has reported planned assortment of handled international IDs.

He additionally said new enlistments for candidates welcomed through SMS would start soon.

NIS representative, Sunday James, gave the update in an announcement on Thursday.

The advancement followed the staged and progressive facilitating of lockdown in Lagos and Abuja from May 4.

Nigeria Immigration said from May 4 to May 15, there will be an assortment of cleared travel papers at the Service Headquarters Abuja and all the identification workplaces across the nation.

"Except if the states that are encountering a total lockdown taking into account their exceptional circumstance and the express government's situation on COVID-19. Just candidates welcomed by SMS through their cell phones are relied upon to turn up on the planned dates.

"On May 18, there will be steady enlistment for just improved identifications at the accompanying areas that issue it: Immigration Service Headquarters Abuja, Ikoyi, Alausa, Kano Main Passport Office and Port Harcourt.

"On May 25, all Passport Offices across the country are to work a continuous handling and enlistment with severe consistence with social separating, wearing of facemasks and utilization of hand sanitizers.

"All administrations at our Diplomatic and Consular Missions will be coordinated by the individual missions dependent on nation circumstance," the announcement included.