7,500 passports await collection in Oyo - Immigration

• Published date: 12 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has said no fewer than 7,500 passports are yet to be collected in Oyo State.

Oyo NIS noted that some of these passports have been produced since 2020 but their owners failed to pick them up.

Speaking in Ibadan during a working visit to the Oyo State Command of NIS, the Assistant Comptroller-General of Immigration in charge of Planning and Statistics, Dora Amahian, noted that NIS has sent text messages to the applicants notifying them of the collection of their passports but only a few of them responded to it.

She lamented that some applicants submitted the wrong phone numbers, which makes SMSs sent to them remain undelivered.

'We have about 7,500 uncollected passports in Oyo State and we do not want them to expire in our hands because if they do...