Automobile Dealers, Ubani law firm drag Customs to court over raids at car marts
After days of anguish and outcries over what they described as unlawful raids and sealing of their car marts across select cities including Lagos and Abuja, the automobile dealers association is set to initiate legal action against the Nigerian Custom…
Can NIS resolve the Ganduje revelation that 90% Almajiris in Kano not Nigerians?
The recent revelation by the Governor of Kano State, Alhaji Abdulalhi Ganduje, that more than 90 per cent of Almajiri in the state are not Nigerians has raised a critical task for the ongoing E registration of non-Nigerians in the…
Heritage Bank builds, donates SERVICOM unit to NIS in Lagos office
Leading innovative financial services provider, Heritage Bank Plc, in Lagos yesterday, handed over a built and equipped SERVICOM unit to the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS). Unveiling the structure, the Comptroller General (CG) of NIS, Muhammad Babandede lauded the bank for…
How delays from NIMC systems frustrated takeoff of 10-year passport scheme
More facts have emerged on why the planned takeoff of new 10-year international passport regime failed to begin on March 4, 2019 as scheduled. It would be recalled that the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has vide a tease statement issued…
Pilgrims to SCOAN topped foreign visitors’ to Lagos, Abuja airports in 2018—Study
…As FAAN report says 4.2m Int’l passengers moved in, out of airports same period Just as the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has said a total of 15.2 million passengers passed through Nigerian airports in 227,834 aircraft movements in…
Nigerians reject N70,000 price tag for new international passport
Barely three days after the management of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) said registration and the issuance of new international passport would cost Nigerians N70,000, Nigerians have rejected the price, saying it is not in tune with current economic realities….
Wrong systems integration, cause of NIS biometric visa-on-arrival crisis—Expert
As the recent payment crisis that rocked the Online Integrated Services (OIS) of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has continued to elicit reactions, a leading payment systems integration professional, Mr. Chuks Etebo has linked the development to wrong systems integration….
‘Cabals’ involved in printing Nigerian passports in Malaysia can’t allow NSPMC—BHIU
A two months investigation carried out by the Business Hilights Intelligence Unit (BHIU), a research arm of Business Hilights publications has come out with a revelation that “Even though the upgraded Nigeria Security Printing & Minting Corporation (NSPMC) systems can…
INTELS in court to quash deportation order on foreign workers
As part of efforts to show serious interest and confidence in the Nigerian economy, upon all the frustrations being faced form several government agencies, INTELS Nigeria Limited, has approached a Federal High Court in Abuja, asking for an order granting…
FG killing Free Zones concept in Onne, 16 firms leave
More industry players are still looking at the emerging after effects of government’s onslaught on Intels Nigeria Limited, core concessionaire of Onne Free Trade Zone, in Rivers State. Already, some of the 16 companies that have decided to exit the…
