Nigerian Immigration Service to start home delivery of passports in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Kano, and Abuja from June 2024.
Delays were due to a lack of data centres, according to Minister of Interior Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo.
Home delivery for Nigerians abroad will begin in the US and UK, with initial testing to ensure effectiveness.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that starting June 2024, the Nigerian Immigration Service will begin home delivery of passports in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Kano, and Abuja, according to the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo.
The minister made this announcement on Friday while inspecting the electronic gates at the new terminal of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.
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He explained that delays in implementing home delivery were due to a lack of data centres. For Nigerians in the diaspora, the service will initially launch in the United States and the United Kingdom, with preliminary testing to ensure its effectiveness.
His words: “We have completed the whole solution but when we came on board, we realised that the data centre was not really there. We were leveraging a private company data centre and we appreciate them for that assistance. We think that it is better to create a permanent solution to problems rather than quick fixes.
“We could have done it in February but we had to build our data centre from scratch to be able to keep the integrity of our data and national security intact. This is more important. It is disgraceful that NIS is 61 years old and NIS is a custodian of biometric data of Nigeria and we believe that NIS should be in charge of the data of Nigeria.
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“It is not acceptable that this data is domiciled in a third party and that is why we have been able to do this,” he said.
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