NIS clears 55,000 passport backlogs in four days

The minister who made the remarks in his office in Abuja on Tuesday during a meeting with the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, noted that the information was from daily updates he received from the NIS over his directive.

He maintained that under his watch, Nigerians home and abroad would not be subjected to unnecessary hardships and bottlenecks in the process of obtaining passport booklets.