Tag: Nigerian Immigration

National Security Alert! ‘Terrorists from Mali planning to infiltrate borders, attack FCT’ – Immigration

Aminu Imam

The Nigeria Immigration Service, (NIS), has put its officers at various border posts across the country on red alert over the prospect of a looming terrorist attack in the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT), Abuja. The NIS said it received intelligence from the Presidency that some terrorists from West-African neighbour, Mali, want to move through the Nigeria-Niger Republic border to launch an attack in Abuja. The letter, dated December 23, 2021, was titled: ‘Terrorists Plan Attacks In Abuja’, signed by the Land Border Patrol Commander, Edirin Okoto, on behalf of the…

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191,000 job applicants write exams to fill 9,460 vacancies

Aminu Imam

About 191,000 job applicants are being tested today by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to fill 9,460 vacancies in the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).  Secretary of the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board, Yakmut Alhassan Saleh, said the computer-based exam is taking place simultaneously in 126 centres across Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).   He said, “All over the country, we have almost 190,000 candidates out of which 113,000 are Civil Defence, and 78,000…

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Nigerian Immigration blocks 58 Nigerian doctors from flying to UK

Ishaku Yohanna

The Nigerian Immigration Service said on Friday that it had blocked 58 medical doctors from leaving the country through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos via a chartered flight. According to a statement signed by Immigration spokesman, Sunday James, the doctors had no visa for entry to the United Kingdom, while only two had a valid visa. The statement stressed that the NIS had received no notification from the “Ministry of Health in Nigeria or any known Medical body” of the doctors’ itinerary. The NIS added that it “will…

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