The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has unveiled its first ever centralised passport personalisation centre with a production capacity of up to 5,000 passports daily.
Minister of interior Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo inspected the building at the immigration headquarters in Abuja on Thursday alongside Kemi Nandap, the service’s controller general.
Nigeria used to produce its travel IDs at several locations across the globe.
However, Tunji-Ojo said in a post on the new high-speed machines at the facility that the NIS can now personalise over 1,000 booklets in an hour thanks to the “strategic infrastructural investment, which did not cost a kobo to the government.”
“To put it into perspective, long before this development, the service could only record an average of 250–300 booklets daily,” the minister said.
“But, today, under 5 work hours, the service can now deliver about 4500 to 5000 passports.”
Recall that just last month, Last month, the NIS announced a hike in prices for a Nigerian passport.
The current price of a 64-page booklet with a 10-year validity is N200,000, while a 32-page booklet with a five-year validity is N100,000.
The price adjustments follows barely a year after a similar development in 2024.
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