The Acting Comproller General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Wura-Ola Adepoju, has said that over 112,000 passport booklets are yet to be collected by applicants across the 36 states of the federation.
This was disclosed during a press briefing at the service headquarters on Thursday in Abuja, noting that the figure was as at October 5, 2023.
She stated that the service had cleared all the 204,332 passport application backlogs after the Minister of Interior Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo’s two-week deadline to the service last month.
According to Adepoju, 91,981 passport booklets have been collected so far.
The NIS boss urged applicants to visit their respective application centres to collect the travel documents, as 112, 321 lies uncollected across the 36 states in the country.
“I invite applicants who have applied for passports to come and pick them up without paying anything extra,” Adepoju said.
Adepoju further warned applicants to shun touts, urging them to contact the Service via 08067761196.
“Any personnel caught demanding bribe would be severely punished; the minister has directed that we make scapegoat of any corrupt official caught,” she said.
