The Presidency has highlighted the impressive strides of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in checkmating security issues between 2015 and 2023.
He said the NIS launched 16 new Forward Operation Bases across Nigeria and launched, on Jan. 15, 2019, an enhanced e-Passport, and a Booklet with 10-year validity. “Also, NIS deployed, with the support of the International Organisation for Migration , the global Migration Information and Data Analysis System at five International Airports and 17 Border Crossing Points.
The presidency said that NIS had also built and inaugurated, in 2021, a Technology Complex at the NIS HQ, housing a Command-and-Control Centre. “Nigeria in September 2020 successfully completed the upload of more than 150,000 stolen and lost travel documents to the Interpol Database, ” he said.