He had noted that Nigeria was overdue for an express passport centre in line with global best practices as practised in the developed countries and even Ghana in West Africa. It does appear that the real problem is insufficient availability of the scarce passport booklets, which creates room for extortion of passport applicants. As the officials keep stressing that passport booklets are scarce, it is obvious that before long, things would return to what obtains at the other passport offices. The Nigeria Security Printing, Mint is, or ought to be well-equipped to handle the production of passport booklets for Nigeria. The capacity of the Mint should be increased to produce all the passport booklets needed in the country.

Source: The Guardian June 04, 2021 03:56 UTC