Nigeria clears 200k passport backlog, cuts issuance time to two weeks

Nigeria’s beleaguered passport issuance system is witnessing a revolution lately with a huge backlog of 204,332 passports cleared in three weeks by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS).

In a recent press conference, Minister of Interior Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, whose ministry oversees passport issuance in Nigeria, said one novelty is that the travel document will from December be delivered in maximum two weeks after biometric enrollment, Arise News reports.

In September, Tunji-Ojo gave a two-week ultimatum to the NIS to print …

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