As the country continues to grapple with deepening security crisis, the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), is putting in place measures to address the situation. <\/p>\n
To this end, 69 senior officers of the service has been posted to zones and commands across the country.<\/p>\n
Isa Idris, acting comptroller-general, approved their posting, a statement by Amos Okpu, public relations officer to the assistant comptroller of NIS, disclosed on Tuesday, <\/p>\n
According to the statement, eight assistant comptrollers-general (AGC) and 61 comptrollers were moved across divisions, zones and commands.<\/p>\n
Okpu said the approval of the posting was contained in a circular dated August 1.<\/p>\n
According to him, Idris advised the officers to use their rich experiences \u201cto improve service delivery and national security\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe assistant comptrollers general deployed include ACG KM Amao, formerly the Comptroller of Ogun State Command, now moved to the General Services Division at the Service Headquarters Abuja, while ACG KN Nandap, formerly in charge of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Command, Ikeja, is now the head of the Combined Expatriate and Residence Permit Card Division (CERPAC) at the service headquarters,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n
\u201cSimilarly, ACG Abdullahi M Usman is now the head of the division of regular migration at the service headquarters, while ACG BN Alawode becomes the head of welfare and gender and ACG EC Esedo is the zonal coordinator, zone \u2018D\u2019 in Minna.<\/p>\n
\u201cMeanwhile, ACG MA Ushie of the document fraud unit has been moved to the diplomatic\/official passport division, while ACG ES Fagbamigbe, formerly of Idi-Iroko border command, now heads the land border division at the service headquarters.<\/p>\n
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\n\u201cSome of the comptrollers posted include Compt. AO Adesokan who has been moved from training and staff development (TSD) Abuja, to the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, while the acting principal staff officer (PSO) to the comptroller general, Compt. Ahmed Mustapha, becomes the new comptroller of Kano state command.<\/p>\n
\u201cOthers include Compt. Shittu Olajire Fatai now in charge of Border Patrol Command, Lagos; Compt. Gwama Muhammad who now heads the Idi-Iroko border command, and Compt. MM Saddiq who is now the principal staff officer to the comptroller general.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe passport control officer, Ikoyi passport office, Compt. AO Bewaji, has been moved to the service headquarters, while Compt. Michael Dike takes over as the comptroller, Seme border command Lagos.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe comptroller in charge of discipline is now moved to head Osun state command, while Compt. Sabo A Rano, commandant, Immigration Training School, Kano, is now the comptroller of Gombe state command.<\/p>\n
\u201cFurthermore, Compt. FD Dakat of Onne marine command moves to Akwa Ibom state command to take over from Compt. GE Didel who has been moved to the Migration Directorate at the Service Headquarters.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that the posting takes effect immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As the country continues to grapple with deepening security crisis, the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), is putting in place measures to address the situation. To this end, 69 senior officers of the service has been posted to zones and commands across the country. Isa Idris, acting comptroller-general, approved their posting, a statement by Amos Okpu, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":124558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7700,83,20237,7698],"class_list":["post-207667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-immigration","tag-insecurity","tag-isa-idris","tag-nis"],"yoast_head":"\n