- Safiu Kehinde
Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has explained the reasons for the increment in cost of Nigerian Passport acquisition.
This was contained in a post on NIS’ official X handle.
According to the post, the increment was based on four reasons among which include cost of production.
NIS also disclosed that the increment was based on the agency’s effort to create more passport front offices and biometrics centres.
The post read in part; “4 Reasons for the Increase in Price of Nigeria Standard Passport
“Increment in passport standard and quality, ensuring that the Nigerian Passport continues to maintain the ICAO standard.
“To address cost of materials and production in view of current realities
“With the new fees, the NIS will create more Passsport front offices and biometrics centres, thereby increasing access to our facilities, decongesting the already existing centres and improving Passport production turnaround time.
” The recent increase in Passport fees would also help the Service actualise its drive for complete domestication of Nigeria Passport booklets.
“This is in furtherance of the #RenewedHope Agenda of
Mr. President to build local content”