Nigeria: Immigration Promises Improved Border Security, Pension Package

3 November 2024

The Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has resolved to ensure an enhanced pension package for retired officers and also sustain the deployment of relevant cutting-edge technology to improve border security.

The resolutions were made at the weekend during the closing ceremony of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, Comptroller-General Annual Conference 2024 with the theme: Enhancing Border Security and Migration Management in a Globalised World: Challenges and Opportunities for Nigeria.

Comptroller-General of NIS, Kemi Nandap, said this when she presented the resolutions agreed upon at the forum.

Her words: "The conference resolved that the service shall continue to collaborate and synergise with relevant agencies and stakeholders. The service shall sustain the deployment of relevant cutting-edge technology to improve border security and migration management through automated visa insurance and passport application processes and draw a strategic plan that aligns with the Federal Government of Nigeria's initiatives on foreign direct investments and tourism that will attract improved funding.

"The service shall restructure and improve operations at the divisions of immigration offices in all 774 local government areas in the country to strengthen intelligence and proactive engagement with border communities in Nigeria, and shall, in line with the tenets of the Renewed Hope Agenda, engage in other processes, re-engineering and develop a strategic plan to promote professionalism, patriotism, discipline, and similar, service to people."

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