NIS expose new human trafficking tactics

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) says it has uncovered the new strategy used by human traffickers to evade security checks and avoid suspicion by using the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) Travel Certificate (ETC) as a travel document to transport their victims to any of the ECOWAS Member States to evade stringent checks at the airport and lower the level of suspicion.

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NIS says International Passport is N26,000, ask Nigerians to report corrupt officers

Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), has confirmed that nationals can get an international passport for N26,000, which according to it, as the amount charged for the passport. The NIS noted that It is not only criminal on the part of applicants to pay money to offices, but also wrong for officers to demand money to facilitate the process. Amos Okpu, public relations officer of NIS, stated this in an interview with legit.ng, an online newspaper. Okpu noted that a 32-page international passport will cost only N26,000. He listed the steps to…

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