Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo has assured Nigerians that automation of passport application process will begin from January 8, 2024, saying that the people will be able to apply and complete their passport application process online without human contact.
“We are good to go live,” Tunji-Ojo said on Monday in Abuja during an inspection of facilities of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) alongside the Comptroller General (CG) of the Service, Wura-Ola Adepoju.
Read him: “We are starting the training and on January 8, the solution will be live and direct for Nigerians to have a good feel, a sweet experience based on the Renewed Hope of Mr President.
“We have been able to reduce human contact in passport acquisition to the minimum,” the minister said, adding that the new initiative will enhance the security architecture of the country as well as the comfort and convenience of Nigerians.”
The Minister added that the government wanted to bring an end to the era of people bringing fake documents for passport application, even as he announced that the Service now have document verification officers across all local government areas in the country to scrutinize passport applications in the country.
Tunji-Ojo added that this process would hasten data collection, capturing, and collection of passports.
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