The Federal Executive says it deported 828 unlawful immigrants in 2024 as a part of its intensified efforts to battle abnormal migration and beef up nationwide safety.
The Minister of Internal, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, disclosed this at a media parley in Abuja on Tuesday.
Highlighting the federal government’s achievements, the minister mentioned, “In the last one year, 137 victims of trafficking were intercepted, and in 2024 alone, 828 foreigners were repatriated by the Nigerian Immigration Service.”
As a part of broader reforms, the federal government applied measures to modernise border operations and immigration techniques.
Those come with integrating Nigerian passports into the Global Civil Flying Organisation Nation Key Listing, permitting seamless verification international, and creation a centralised Visa Commendation Centre in Abuja to streamline visa processing.
To help those tasks, an 8.3-petabyte information centre—the biggest in Nigeria—has been built, and a solar-powered infrastructure was once presented to safeguard uninterrupted operations.
A Command and Keep watch over Centre now supplies real-time tracking of all land and breeze access issues, boosting surveillance functions.
The minister famous that the NIS additionally cleared a backlog of “200,000 passport applications within three weeks in 2023 and issued 1,836,533 passports in 2024.”
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