The Federal Government has announced a two-week timeline for the processing of passport applications, with an assurance that the era of Nigerians waiting for months to get their international passports will be over soon.
Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo gave the assurance in Abuja at a media parley to review his directive to the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to clear over 204 thousand backlog of passport applications.
Tunji-Ojo, who apologized to Nigerians that clearance of the backlog has spilled into three weeks as opposed to the two weeks deadline he gave, however omened officers and men of the NIS for working day and night including weekends to meet with his directive.
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