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By Christopher Oji
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) will next week kick-off nationwide sensitisation activities on the dangers of irregular migration.
The NIS has, also, assured that more efforts were being made, including the deployment of eBorder assets, aimed at ensuring enhanced border security as well as humane, orderly and safe migration across the nation’s border crossing points.
The Comptroller General, Immigration, Isah Jere Idris, who made the disclosures, Tuesday, at a capacity building workshop organised by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung for NIS Public Relations Officers of commands and formations, across the country in Abuja, commended the agency for its development activities in the country.
The CG, who was represented at the opening ceremony of the capacity building workshop by the Assistant Comptroller General in charge of Regular Migration, ACG Usman Abdullahi, thanked the Country Representative of Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, and her team, for the excellent organisation of the workshop and called for closer collaboration for enhanced relationship.
The NIS Public Relations Officer, Deputy Comptroller General of NIS, DCI, Amos Okpu, said: “ACG Abdullahi affirmed management’s commitment to deepen capacity building activities for public relations officers of the Service, with a view to equipping them with modern skills and competences, to enable them communicate the ills of irregular migration to the public more effectively.
