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NIS intercepts irregular Cameroonian immigrant On Muhammad-Babandede CG Nigeria Immigration Service The operatives of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) have intercepted a Cameroonian on a commercial vehicle during a routine stop and search operation in a Joint Border Patrol Checkpoint at Ikom, Cross River. The Spokesperson of the Service, Mr Sunday James, in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, said the joint operation led by Mr Umar Mala of the service was able to identify the irregular immigrant. James said the irregular immigrant by name Sally Kisob, was suspected to have entered the co...

Punch Newspapers Sections The Nigeria Immigration Service on Sunday said there were no armed herdsmen in the country. The NIS spokesman,  Sunday James, who stated this in an interview with one of our correspondents in Abuja, also said there had been tight security at borders since the introduction of the Migration Information and Data Analysis Systems. Recall that the Federal Government had in November 2019 installed the MIDAS,  a border management technology at three international airports, 14 land and two sea borders to check irregular migration, human trafficking and other cross-border c...

Daily Post Nigeria Published The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mr Muhammad Babandede, has provided an update on the ongoing 2020/2021 recruitment into the service. Babandede said that NIS invited 70,000 applicants for examination and only 50,000 appeared and sat for the examination across the country. He said that 6,000 candidates would be shortlisted for final physical screening and only those that are fit and qualified will be recruited as officers of the NIS in the next two weeks. According to him, appointment into the Service is neither for sale nor for the...

Investigations by Daily Trust show a spike in cases of banditry, kidnapping, ethnic conflicts, cult clashes, among others, with perpetrators relying on increased availability of small arms, according to experts. Nigeria occupies an area of 923,768 square kilometers, extending to 1,127 km east-west and 1,046 km north-south. It is bordered by Chad on the north-east, Cameroon on the east, Gulf of Guinea on the south, Benin Republic on the west and Niger on the north-west. With a total boundary length of 4,900 km, of which 853 km is coastline, the country’s borders with Benin and Chad are 773k...

Punch Newspapers Sections Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has failed to summon a meeting of the Nigeria Police Council for the past 21 months despite the rising insecurity in the country. Investigations by our correspondent indicated that the last time the council met was on May 23, 2019, when it confirmed the appointment of Abubakar Adamu as the substantive Inspector-General of Police at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The President had on January 15, 2019, appointed Adamu as acting IGP following the retirement of IGP Ibrahim Idris. Adamu’s app...