October 06, (THEWILL) – The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has said about 112,351 passport booklets are yet to be collected by applicants across the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as at Thursday, October 5, 2023.
Acting Comptroller General of the Service, Mrs. Wura-Ola Adepoju, disclosed this when she spoke with newsmen on Thursday, in Abuja.
Adepoju said the Service had cleared all the 204,332 passport application backlogs following the ultimatum issued by the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo.
“91,981 passport booklets have been collected so far. There are 112,351 others not yet collected,” she said.
The NIS boss called on applicants to go to their respective application centres to collect the travel documents.
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