Nigeria Immigration acquires passport scanning machines
The Nigeria Immigration Service, Lagos Command, has acquired nine scanning equipment to facilitate the production of electronic-passport at its Ikoyi passport office.
A power inverter was also acquired to boost the power generation which had slowed down production at the Ikoyi passport office.
The Passport Control Officer, Innocent Akatu said the machines were acquired to reduce the stress on the existing ones.
The constant breakdown and slow pace of the existing machines, mostly due to stress, had caused congestion of passport applications at the Ikoyi Passport office.
He said the production chart at the office was about 800 passports daily at peak periods.
The daily production of passports had not been commensurate with the number of applicants which had been about 2000 per day.
With the acquisition of the new machines, the daily production of passports at the Ikoyi office would increase and the backlog of applicants would be taken care of speedily..
The use of the Machine Readable Passport expired in June, and this has increased the quest for the e-passport.
The Nigeria Immigration Service, Lagos Command, has acquired nine scanning equipment to facilitate the production of electronic-passport at its Ikoyi passport office.
A power inverter was also acquired to boost the power generation which had slowed down production at the Ikoyi passport office.
The Passport Control Officer, Innocent Akatu said the machines were acquired to reduce the stress on the existing ones.
The constant breakdown and slow pace of the existing machines, mostly due to stress, had caused congestion of passport applications at the Ikoyi Passport office.
He said the production chart at the office was about 800 passports daily at peak periods.
The daily production of passports had not been commensurate with the number of applicants which had been about 2000 per day.
With the acquisition of the new machines, the daily production of passports at the Ikoyi office would increase and the backlog of applicants would be taken care of speedily..
The use of the Machine Readable Passport expired in June, and this has increased the quest for the e-passport.
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