The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry
of Interior in Nigeria Abubakar Magaji has revealed that the country has
started issuing biometric visas, which have been designed to effectively block
people that should not enter the country.
Magaji disclosed this at the
End-of-Year Dinner and Award Night of the Nigeria Immigration Service in Abuja.
“Nigeria is the only country in
Africa that is issuing biometric visas. It started this year, but we have
already launched it. I know the biometric visa is going to block many people
that we don’t want to come to Nigeria,” he said.
While urging the agency to do more
in the coming year, Magaji assured it of the continued support of the ministry
that supervises the NIS. The Chairperson of the event planning committee, Mrs.
Edith Onyemenam, said it was one of the first federal agencies to implement the
Presidential Executive Orders issued earlier in the year.
Onyemenam, a Comptroller of
Immigration, said the introduction of online pre-approval for Visa on Arrival
contributed greatly to the country’s improvement in the World Bank’s ease of
doing business ranking from 169th to 145th position.
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