Nigeria Immigration Launches First Centralised Passport Centre
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has commissioned its first-ever centralised passport personalisation centre, designed to produce up to 5,000 passports daily.
The new facility, located at the NIS headquarters in Abuja, was inspected on Thursday by Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, minister of interior, alongside the comptroller general of the service, Kemi Nandap.
Until now, Nigeria relied on multiple production centres spread across the globe. The new hub, powered by high-speed machines, represents what the minister described as a “strategic infrastructural investment that cost the government nothing.”
“With this development, the service can now personalise over 1,000 passports in just one hour,” Tunji-Ojo said. “In the past, production averaged 250 to 300 passports daily, but today, under five work hours, we can process between 4,500 and 5,000 passports.”
He added that the move would significantly reduce waiting times and eliminate delays that have long plagued passport processing in the country.
The minister also commended President Bola Tinubu’s administration for delivering on its pledge of transparency and accountability.
The development comes weeks after the NIS announced new passport fees. A 32-page passport with five-year validity now costs N100,000, while a 64-page passport with a 10-year validity goes for N200,000. The price review followed a similar adjustment introduced less than a year ago.
