Federal Government Approves 10 Year Validity For Nigerian Passport
The Nigerian international passport will now wear a new look of features and 10-year validity period. This is because the Federal Government has approved a 10-year validity period for Nigerian Passports.
On this premise, the approval has been granted by the presidency to change the face of the e-passport 10 years after it was introduced in the country. Presently, the passports only have a five-year validity period.
According to the Comptroller-General of Nigerian Immigration Service, Muhammed Babandede, who made known in an interview with journalists said that the extended validity period would reduce the stress Nigerians went through every five years to renew their passports. The Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service disclosed that the President has also approved the quality of the passports booklets and the security features there in.
“One of the reforms he (President Buhari) has approved is that we would improve the quality, security of our passport booklets. “Ten years after the enrolment of the e-passport system, we need to improve the security features. You can 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,” the Comptroller-General noted.
