NIS advocator, Sunday James, disclosed this in AN interview with the News Agency of Nigerianation (NAN) on Monday morning in Abuja.
He aforementioned the functionary of the NIS, Muhammad Babandede, had directed that henceforward all payments for passport process should be done on-line and thru selected banks.
He aforementioned the NIS boss had, in an exceedingly circular, directed all passport management officers to not enable money payments in any of the passport premises.
“All payments in reference to passport process area unit to be done by candidates through banks to get application ID and reference range on the NIS portal and not through a personal or touts,” Mr. James said.
This followed reports by PREMIUM TIMES exposing entrenched corruption at passport offices, wherever Immigration officers connive with touts to tear off candidates.
According to him, the NIS CG has conjointly ordered an investigation into allegations of passport felony at some passport offices in Lagos with a read to sanitising the system.
Mr. James thus urged passport candidates to confirm that every one classes of Nigerian passports fees were done on-line.
“Passport candidates area unit thus powerfully suggested to go to the NIS web site World Wide Web.immigration.gov.ng to verify the approved fees for all classes of Nigerian Passports and age teams before creating payments,” he added.
He aforementioned the management of all passport offices are directed to stick all data needed at the premises to guide candidates in line with the manager orders.
He urged Nigerians to direct any criticism or enquiries to 07080607900 and therefore the email address nis.servicom@nigeriaimmigration.gov.ng.
The advocator suggested candidates against condescending touts or agents so as to confirm economical service delivery.
The NIS boss had vowed to kill corruption within the operations of the NIS as a part of efforts to reposition the Service and guarantee economical service delivery. (NAN)
Customs officers fired (dismissed ) over 661
rifles foreign into Nigeria
The Nigeria Customs Service has fired/ dismissed four of its officers WHO were found blamable within the importation and clearing of the 661 action mechanism rifles taken over at Tin will Island Port earlier within the year. The officers were found to own lawlessly free a instrumentation load of arms when allegedly grouping bribes. The officers’ dismissal was confirmed last weekend by the general public Relations Officer (PRO) of The Nigeria Customs Service; adult male Joseph Atah. tho' he gave no any details concerning the fired officers, our sources hinted that they could be a number of those that were arraigned before a Federal state supreme court in Lagos recently. The officers area unit Mahmud Hassan, Oscar Okafor, syntactician Achinulo, Matthew Okoye, aforementioned be at giant, and Salihu Danjuma.
They were speculated to have conspired to import
661 action mechanism rifles into
the country from Turkey through the Apapa Port in Lagos, employing a
40-feet instrumentation, that they incorrectly claimed contained steel doors. To facilitate the prohibited importation, the defendant allegedly cast variety of documents as
well as a bill of loading,
a kind M and a Pre-Arrival
Assessment Report. it absolutely was
gathered that the defendant
allegedly cast a bill of loading issued at Constantinople on Jan nine, 2017, claiming that it
absolutely was issued at Shanghai, China. within the cast
bill of loading, they allegedly stuffed “steel door” because the content of the instrumentation rather than rifles. it absolutely was alleged any that they offered a bribe of
N400,000 to a political candidate
of The Nigeria Customs Service hooked up to the Federal
Operative Unit to influence the aforementioned
officer to not conduct a
“hundred per cent search on the 40-feet instrumentation
with range PONU 825914/3.” The
prosecution conjointly alleged
that the primary defendant, Hassan, corruptedly gave N1 million to
government officers at the Apapa Port so
as to stop the search of
the instrumentation by Customs officers.
The Customs professional but explained that it
absolutely was those concerned
within the initial case that are fired, adding that officers concerned within the
second case involving importation of 440 items of rifles at Tin will
Island Port have solely been
suspended. On the officers, the Customs professional
said: ”I will tell you that the
officers concerned within the arms scandals each the one that happened at Mile two and therefore the one at Tin will are fired and therefore the suspects face
prosecution. the entire cases of
the arms area unit still in
court {this is|this is often|this will
be} the abundant I can tell you
for currently. All the suspects area unit below prosecution.”
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