President Buhari Launches The Newly Enhanced 10-Year Validity E-Passport

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice Yemi Osinbajo has been presented with a new 10-year diplomatic passport by the Nigeria Immigration service.

The passports were presented by the Minister of
Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, and the Comptroller General of Nigeria
Immigration Service, Mohammed Babandede.

Officials of NIS had
earlier captured the biometrics of the president and the vice president
shortly before the commencement of an extraordinary meeting of the
Federal Executive Council inside the council chamber of the presidential
villa.

Apart from the 10-year validity, the new passport, according to the NIS has enhanced security and is ”weather friendly”.

The
Immigration Service said the new passport has polycarbonate technology
that eliminates damage and that it now saves Nigerians in diaspora the
time needed to frequently visit Nigerian embassies for new passports.

Last October, Mr Babandede announced that Nigeria will begin using the new passport by December 2018.

Speaking
with Channels Television, he said “ten years after the enrollment of
the e-passport system, we need to improve the security features”.

“You
can’t keep documents for 10 years without seeing decreased values in
them, so we are improving the security features which would raise the
standards of the passports,” he said.