E-border operations to commence 2021, says Immigration boss (Punch)

The Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service, Muhammad Babandede, has said the Federal Government’s planned electronic border monitoring will commence fully in 2021.

Babandede, who made the disclosure at the NIS management retreat in Lagos on Friday, said the e-border would enable officials to see real time online situation of the country’s borders.

He said the programme would be implemented in two years where the 4,047 kilometres of land borders, covering 86 border-control post, comprising six mega-control posts, 16 medium-control posts and 64 mini-control posts, would be monitored.

The Federal Executive Council in April approved N52bn for the electronic monitoring of Nigeria’s borders. Read more