Interior Minister unveils digital reforms as 689 Immigration Cadets graduate in Kano

By Bashir Bello

The Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, connected Saturday said Nigeria’s migration absorption had entered a caller epoch of integer innovation, operational efficiency, and citizen-focused work delivery.

Tunji-Ojo stated this astatine the passing-out parade of 689 cadets of the 50th Superintendent Basic Course of the Immigration Training School, Kano.

The minister, represented by the Secretary to the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB), retired Maj.-Gen. Abdulmalik Jibrin, said the reforms underscored President Bola Tinubu’s renewed anticipation agenda.

We are committed to gathering a smarter, much unafraid and service-oriented migration system. Some of our caller innovations see the instauration of physics gates astatine airports, integer landing and exit cards, a centralised passport accumulation system, and real-time physics borderline surveillance,” helium said.

According to him, these measures volition heighten nationalist security, amended operational efficiency, and summation nationalist spot successful the service.

The curate urged the cadets to clasp professionalism, affectional intelligence, and a zero-tolerance cognition toward corruption.“““Your azygous is simply a awesome of authority. Use it to protect, not to intimidate. Serve arsenic the look of our federation astatine its borders with integrity and discipline,” helium said.

In her remarks, the Comptroller-General of Immigration, Mrs. Kemi Nanna Nandap, said the reforms were repositioning the NIS successful enactment with planetary standards.

Nandap commended President Bola Ahmed and the curate of Interior for their steadfast enactment and reform-driven enactment successful shaping the Nigerian Immigration Service into a modern, technology-driven agency.

She listed cardinal initiatives including the deployment of e-Border solutions, instauration of a Special Border Force, instauration of assemblage cameras astatine airports, precocious rider accusation systems, physics expatriate residence permits, and the caller eVisa exertion channel.

These reforms are designed to fortify borderline governance, amended migration absorption and heighten work transportation to Nigerians and foreigners.

The dynamic planetary situation demands that our officers show ICT competence, resilience and professionalism,” Nandap said.““She urged the cadets to cull unethical practices and service arsenic champions of organization reforms.

Earlier, the Commandant of the Immigration Training School, Kano, Comptroller Idris Akande-Ozigi, said the cadets had undergone six months of intensive grooming to hole them for the challenges of nationalist service.

Gov. Abba Kabir-Yusuf of Kano State, represented by the Commissioner for Internal Security, retired Air Vice-Marshal Ibrahim Umar, congratulated the cadets and pledged the authorities government’s enactment to the grooming institution.““The colourful parade was attended by heads of information agencies, members of the Kano Emirate Council, families of the cadets and different dignitaries.

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