AdminApr 8, 20161 min readNIS understaffed, inadequately funded – Comptroller-General, Martin AbeshiThe Comptroller-General of the service, Martin Abeshi, made this known at the 2016 Comptroller General of Immigration’s annual conference...
AdminApr 2, 20161 min readNIS nab two illegal immigrants in Cross RiverThe immigrants, Nji Haeges-Chi from Cameroon and Shahid Mahmood a Pakistani national, were arrested by the border patrol team of the NIS...
AdminNov 25, 20151 min readOnly 48 Nigerians were deported from UK, not 500 – NISThe British Broadcasting Corporation had reported earlier that a plane conveying about 500 Nigerian deportees from the UK had landed at...
AdminNov 4, 20152 min readNigeria won’t condone lawlessness – NIS boss tells Nigerians in South AfricaA statement issued by the Nigeria Union in South Africa quoted Abeshi as making the call while inaugurating the Online Integrated...
AdminOct 23, 20151 min readNIS tragedy: Abba Moro visits EFCC again for questioningThe former minister, who arrived the commission by 11 am on Thursday, was allowed to leave around 4.20pm after being interrogated by...
AdminOct 2, 20152 min readTerrorism: NIS considers Mexican border modelThe comptroller-general, who decried the lack of effective surveillance across Nigerian land borders, said the NIS was working on the...
AdminOct 2, 20151 min readPlayer jailed one year for breaking opponent’s legThe court said that AFC Gold Cup player, Nathaniel Kerr, 24, pleaded guilty at Manchester Crown Court to assault. The court heard that...
AdminSep 8, 20151 min readEkpedeme replaces Obua as Immigration spokesmanIn a Staff Posting Order via NIS/ABJ/1027/VV/T111/562, dated 2nd September, 2015, the incumbent spokesperson of the NIS, Assistant...
AdminAug 10, 20152 min readNIS prevents 23,472 from leaving Nigeria over terrorism, prostitutionPRNigeria gathered that in the fifteen months period running from January 2014 to March 2015, the Service debarred a total of 23, 472...
AdminAug 9, 20151 min readISIS recruitment: “Beware of those who arrange visas” – NIS warns NigeriansNIS disclosed that the syndicate process travelling documents and visas for those it had recruited for ISIS. It said ISIS’s strategy was...
AdminJun 3, 20151 min readVictims of botched NIS recruitment write BuhariThe Edo State Coordinator of the NIS victims, Comrade Edmund Osumah, who disclosed this yesterday when he, alongside some victims visited...
AdminFeb 21, 20151 min readEmployment scam: Immigration urges public to disregard money-for-job offersMr David Parradang, the Comptroller-General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has urged Nigerians seeking employment into the service to...
AdminFeb 17, 20151 min readNIS arrests 280 illegal immigrants in AdamawaThe Comptroller of the service in the state, Mr Ubi Ikpi, told newsmen in Yola that the arrest was part of the command’s renewed efforts...
AdminDec 2, 20141 min readNIS trains officers on intelligence gatheringThe four-day training began yesterday in Abuja and is being carried out by a German-based company, F&H Solutions. Comptroller General of...
AdminFeb 6, 20132 min readImmigration discover 1,487 illegal routes into NigeriaNigeria Immigration Service has uncovered about 1,487 illegal routes to the country. The NIS also identified 84 regular borders to the...
