The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has suspended an Assistant Superintendent of Immigration II (ASI II) for allegedly soliciting financial gratification from a traveller. NIS’s Comptroller General, Kemi Nandap, made this known in a statement issued by the Service Public Relations…
Automation of passport application begins January 8 — Minister
The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, on Monday, confirmed that the passport application automation process will begin operation on January 8, 2024. The minister had announced in December that the Federal Government was working to ensure a full automation system…
Couple in court for assaulting housegirl, Teacher arraigned for beating pupil, Lagos cultists remanded and more
What is a city without crime? thisislagos descends into the Lagos underground to search out the baddest guys committing the craziest crimes in LasGidi. Couple in court for rape, assault of 19-year-old house girl (Punch) An Ogudu Chief Magistrates’ Court…
Immigration dismisses 4 personnel, demotes 14 over corruption
The Nigeria Immigration Service has dismissed four personnel, demoted 14 others and punished 18 more over corruption charges. The NIS spokesperson, DCI Tony Akuneme, disclosed this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja. He said the discipline was part…
NIS hands over Libya-bound 17-yr-old-girl to NAPTIP
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has handed over to NAPTIP, a 17-year-old girl from Oyo State arrested in Kebbi while allegedly on her way to Libya. The girl was traveling alone when she was arrested by immigration personnel in Yauri…
Immigration Service dismisses 8 personnel, redeploys 100 at MMIA
The Nigeria Immigration Service NIS has dismissed eight of its personnel and sanctioned 18 others for various offences ranging from indiscipline to employment racketeering and other forms of corrupt practices. In addition, about 100 of officers and men hitherto attached…
*3 clerics re-arraigned for alleged rape, abuse of corpses in Lagos (Vanguard)*Court orders lawyer to produce suspect in $32m fraud case (NewTelegraph)
3 clerics re-arraigned for alleged rape, abuse of corpses in Lagos (Vanguard) Three clerics were on Wednesday re-arraigned in an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court by the Lagos State Government on an eight-count charge of rape and abuse…
*Shakeup in NIS as Ikoyi, Festac, Alausa get new PCOs (Sun)*Danish denies killing Nigerian wife, daughter (Nation)
Shakeup in NIS as Ikoyi, Festac, Alausa get new PCOs (Sun) The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), has moved the three Passport Comptrollers (PCOs) in Lagos and replaced them with new ones. The PCOs affected are Ikoyi, Festac and Alausa. The…
COVID-19 third wave: Immigration must be vigilant, says Sanwo-Olu
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has urged the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to be vigilant and save the country from an imminent third wave of the coronavirus pandemic. The governor, who spoke against the background of the rising positive cases,…