Nigeria: FG Orders NIS to Deploy More Personnel to Secure Borders

1 September 2015

The Federal Government has ordered the newly decorated Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Martins Kure Abeshi to deploy more personnel of the service to all Nigerian land borders to checkmate the influx of illegal immigrants.

The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Interior, Abubakar Magaji gave the directive while speaking at the decoration ceremony of the new NIS Comptroller General on Tuesday in Abuja.

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