{"id":149677,"date":"2019-09-05T14:46:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T13:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=149677"},"modified":"2019-09-05T14:54:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T13:54:29","slug":"nigeria-immigration-reacts-to-e-passport-being-rejected-in-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=149677","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Immigration reacts to e-passport being rejected in UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Comptroller General (CG) of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, has said the enhanced e-passport is acceptable and valid for entering all countries.<\/p>\n

He gave the reassurance in a statement by NIS Public Relations Officer, Sunday James, in Abuja on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Babandede\u2019s comments are coming after the recent problem on the e-Passport with the authority of the United Arab Emirate (UAE).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe recent problem on the e-Passport with the authority of the United Arab Emirate (UAE) has been resolved.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will like to seize this opportunity to thank both the Ambassadors of UAE and Nigeria for resolving the issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn view of the above, Nigerians are encouraged to get their National Identity Number (NIN) and ensure that the information tallies with the one on their Passports.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe uniformity of the NIN information and that of the 10-year validity Passport is to ensure one identity which is a major feature of the new enhanced e-Passport,\u201d Babandede said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Comptroller General (CG) of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, has said the enhanced e-passport is acceptable and valid for entering all countries. He gave the reassurance in a statement by NIS Public Relations Officer, Sunday James, in Abuja on Thursday. Babandede\u2019s comments are coming after the recent problem on the e-Passport with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[13158,7482,10562],"class_list":["post-149677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-news","tag-e-passport","tag-nis","tag-uae"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/149678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}