The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has clarified that its suspension of passport printing and issuance at the South-east and five other international stations was part of its ongoing centralisation of passport printing at its headquarters.
NIS also, before the ongoing migration of the South-east states and the five international stations, it had successfully onboarded its passport offices in the North-east and North Central states of Borno, Yobe, Benue, Kogi, Nasarawa, Niger, and Plateau, along with 35 international stations spread across Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America.
There were reports that NIS had finalized plans to discontinue passport printing at the Enugu passport office, the only facility in the zone where passports are printed.