Nigeria Immigration Service Boosts Daily Passport Production to 5,000 with New Centralised Centre in Abuja.

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has boosted its daily passport production capacity from about three hundred to five thousand, following the launch of a new Centralised Passport Personalisation Centre in Abuja.

The Minister of Interior, Doctor Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, who disclosed this during an inspection of the facility at the NIS Headquarters, described the move as a major milestone in Nigeria’s sixty-two-year history of passport issuance.

According to him, the old decentralised system relied on outdated machines that could only produce between two hundred and fifty and three hundred passports daily. The new centralised system, however, now enables NIS to process four thousand five hundred to five thousand passports daily within just four to five hours of operation.