Terrorism: Nigerian passports to get new security features

The Nigeria Immigration Service is planning to embed passports with advanced security features as part of the new security measures to make them tamper-proof.

The PUNCH correspondent gathered in Abuja on Thursday that the NIS had engaged experts to evaluate the biometric features of the passport booklets and enhance them further to prevent the cloning of the travel document by terrorists and other criminals.

It was gathered that the NIS was worried by the rising cases of tampering and cloning of the passport, hence the decision to fortify it with new security chips.

The PUNCH correspondent could, however, not immediately ascertain if the new security features would lead to an increase in the prices of the various categories of passports being produced by the NIS.

The PUNCH, July 6, 2018

 

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