The Federal Government has published the names of 8,611 Nigerians who are yet to collect their issued passports from the Nigeria Immigrations offices across Nigeria.
The Federal Government, through the Ministry of Interior, revealed the names on its website with the link shared on its official Twitter handle. This was also retweeted by the minister, Rauf Aregbesola, on Thursday morning.
Sunday PUNCH had earlier reported that the Nigeria Immigration Service said over 148,000 passports were awaiting collection nationwide since 2020.
The NIS Public Relations Officer, Anthony Akuneme, also noted that the NIS could not reach the owners, some of whom input incorrect contact details at the point of registration.
He revealed that the Comptroller-General, Isa Idris, had deployed a team of senior officers nationwide to reach the owners of the abandoned passports.
However, he said that passports whose owners could not be reached at the end of the exercise would not be destroyed as they remain the property of the Federal Government.
Meanwhile, the ministry in the tweet further called on Nigerians whose names were published to visit the passport office to pick up theirs.
The tweets read, “List of all produced Nigerian Passports worldwide that remains uncollected. If you find your name, proceed to the passport office to pick up yours.”
The PUNCH observed that the list consists of data like surname, first name, other name, passport number and production date.
In other news, The Conference of Northern States Civil Society Networks, comprising 19 northern states, on Thursday, called on the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, to address political thuggery in the country.
The group urged the IGP to take decisive and aggressive action against thuggery and banditry or it will consume the entire country.
The leadership of the group in a press statement jointly signed by the 19 Northern exco members, raised the alarm that the rate at which political thuggery is occurring is alarming.
In the press statement,, they said there is an urgent need for the IGP to intervene without further delay, to enable the general election, which is nine days away, to be held peacefully and successfully.
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