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President Muhammadu Buhari has come out to direct Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, to improve surveillance and control around the nation’s borders. He recently revealed this via a statement by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, and Nigerians have been reacting. According to him, Buhari gave ...

The Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola has come out to say that the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) still has problems meeting the number of applications for Nigerian passports yearly. Mr Rauf Aregbesola recently revealed this today during the virtual inauguration of the newly completed Office Complex of the NIS, ...

Japhet Omojuwa who was arrested alongside Uche Briggs for staging a protest at NSCDC headquarters Abuja over the death of some applicants of the recently concluded NIS test has been released. Their arrest caused a lot of protest on twitter with El-rufai and Oby Ezekwesili also lending their voices See ...

Report pouring in from Abuja has it that twitter activist and public speaker, Japheth Omojuwa and another protester Uche have been arrested. Live Tweets from Twitter has it that Omojuwa is still in NSCDC custody. Original plan of the protest was to carry multiple coffins to Abba Moro’s house. Reports ...

� Reacting to the incident, movie critic and producer, Charles Novia wrote “It’s quite sad to hear that young Nigerians lost their lives in the Nigerian Immigration Service job interview. Now, in a nation where there are no jobs for the millions of youths, the pictures and process of this ...

�Interior Minister Abba Moro has denied responsibility for the deaths of over a dozen job applicants at the Nigeria Immigration Service exam centres across the country yesterday. Seven applicants had died in stampedes in Abuja, while at least four died in Port Harcourt and two slumped and died in Minna, ...