The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has dismissed allegations of discriminatory charges in the issuance of passports at its northern and southern offices.
The Service claims that the observed cost disparity is facilitated by the different passport regimes being run concurrently at its offices in a post on its official Twitter handle on Thursday.
“They are the electronic passport and enhanced electronic passport. The latter is an improvement of the former.
“It is a product of the latest technology in passport issuance. It has improved security features, a poly carbonate data page and comes in three categories of 32-page five-year validity for N25,000, 64-page five- year for N35,000 and 64-page 10-year validity for N70,000.”
The Service further explained that “It was unveiled sometime in 2019 and in seven Passport Centres including Ikoyi, Abuja, Alausa, FESTAC, Port Harcourt, Kano and Gwagwalada that were immediately migrated to the enhanced Passport regime then.”
