Federal Government has identified 1,497 irregular routes being used by illegal immigrants to gain entry into the country.

Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, said this at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday.

Moro said the development had made it difficult for the government to properly secure its international borders.

He said the government was concerned about the nation’s porous borders, especially when some of the illegal immigrants had been allegedly playing active roles in the security challenges facing the country.

He said, “There is no doubt that in any country, foreigners come in. There is no exception to that but when criminally-minded foreigners come into the country with legitimate papers, without proper travel documents, it becomes a concern for the government.

“Moreso, when these foreigners are alleged to be part of insecurity by participating in suicide bombings and some of the conflicts that we have on our hands, certainly it is a serious concern for the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“It is as a result of this concern that the Federal Government has started to increase attention to addressing this border porosity.”

Apart from building watch posts, Moro said the government would introduce electronic components to the surveillance of the Nigerian borders with a central post in Abuja or any part of the country.

He expressed the hope that the electronic surveillance would help reduce if not completely eliminate border infiltration.

The minister reiterated the resolve of government to capture the biometric data of all persons entering and leaving Nigeria.

He said, “We are presently partnering with Galaxy Backbone, it is the major platform for capturing this data and of course the national identity commission is in an aggressive move to ensure we have adequate data record of all persons that enter and leave Jos and all persons including Nigerians resident in Nigeria. We will get there soon.”http://www.punchng.com/news/govt-identifies-1497-illegal-routes-to-nigeria/

TOTAL CRAPSHIT

'all persons entring and leaving Jos' was that an error?

wow 1497 thats a big figure Nigerian Immigration Service what the hell you waiting for

only 1497?

see job opportunity abeg. Oya make National imigration start recruit again jare!

cogitoErgo: 'all persons entring and leaving Jos' was that an error?

I guess.

Who woke d govt up?

This border thingy is long overdue..

Thank God they're now waking up.

[quote author=Exponental]Who woke d govt up?
Ans=i did

mykejones: see job opportunity abeg. Oya make National imigration start recruit again jare!

so u go go d collect bribe d allow pipo d pass freely abi?lol

At the end there wouldn't be any result.What we know best is to talk,no implementation

NIGERIA NEEDS A STRICT BORDER CONTROL POLICY, ESPECIALLY WITH THE LAND BORDERS IN THE NORTHER PART OF NIGERIA.
THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO EMPLOY MORE GRADUATES TO CHECK THOSE BORDERS, OUR BORDERS ARE JUST TOO POROUS.
LET THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT UNDER THE THE IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT, TRY TO REGISTER ALL NIGERIA USING A MORE DIGITALISE SYSTEM, SO WE CAN BE ABLE TO GET A GOOD RANGE OF THE NIGERIA POPULATION WITHOUT EVEN THE USUAL CENSUS POPULATION.

CHAD, NIGER,AND BENIN REPUBLIC GO EVEN GET 9JIA PASSPORT WITHIN 2DAYS, THIS SHOWS YOU THE INCOMPETENCY OF OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM.

NIGERIA NEEDS A STRICT BORDER CONTROL POLICY, ESPECIALLY WITH THE LAND BORDERS IN THE NORTHER PART OF NIGERIA.
THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO EMPLOY MORE GRADUATES TO CHECK THOSE BORDERS, OUR BORDERS ARE JUST TOO POROUS.
LET THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT UNDER THE THE IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT, TRY TO REGISTER ALL NIGERIA USING A MORE DIGITALISE SYSTEM, SO WE CAN BE ABLE TO GET A GOOD RANGE OF THE NIGERIA POPULATION WITHOUT EVEN THE USUAL CENSUS POPULATION.

CHAD, NIGER,AND BENIN REPUBLIC GO EVEN GET 9JIA PASSPORT WITHIN 2DAYS, THIS SHOWS YOU THE INCOMPETENCY OF OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM.

What this simply means is that we don't have any borders at all and that's why there are leakages everywhere. No wonder Ibori could escape without being noticed, cash could be laundered without going through any bank and at the same time anything can come in also without being checked. May God help us in this country.

Some of the reasons (minus oil)sited by the Western Powers for going into Afghanistan,Iraq and snooping into Pakistan, Qatar etc and pumping money into Asia initially,was the fear that political instability and social instability caused by poverty when it occurs,will impact on them i.e the West. Similarly, creating an enabling environment throughout Europe to mitigate against the type of unrest which might lead to war as in the past was one of the more delineated voices in the drive for integrated Europe.I'm afraid that so preoccupied was Africa with its apparent backwardness,of which tribalism is a lingering symptom or even hangover,we have been overtaken in the blindside by the consequences of progress.Globalization, just one of these, means that some of the more politically established African countries are going to face massive problems because of the lawless nature of large swathes of Africa. Mass communication enabled by globalizing tools such as The mobile phone is going to make the old means of border control used by relatively more capable countries like South Africa increasingly ineffective and as young disenfranchised African people in those large swathes of culturless lawless African learn more about the world they are going to export their restlessness to more capable African countries.In short, countries like Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya,Namibia, Botswana, Morocco----------[size=4pt]ghana[/size] etc have to start working together to assist and help poorer African countries.The West most help financially too because long term,after Africa has deteriorated into the Mad Max world America predicted and African resource exhausted by theft,Africans will pose a significant international threat.

Am sure there must be more

its now that the govt have realised this after so many lives have been lost. i just pray their attempts would be a success so that more lives wont be lost.

Tank u for letting me knw. Now,cn u atleast close an entry to make it 1,496?
Nonsense

Exponental: Who woke d govt up?

na us nah

They are more than 3,000 illegal points to enter this country....but anyway they are just blowing hot air as they wont do anything

mkmyers45: They are more than 3,000 illegal points to enter this country....but anyway they are just blowing hot air as they wont do anything

You read my mind -

what will they do with this information?

Except 9ja is a totalitarian state like North Korea, Iran etal or a ridiculously land locked country there's no way you can shut out your entire borders save you plant landmines and barbwire it.
Even mighty America's borders have many illegal routes yet their borders are not classified porous
Let's face it, it is not about illegal routes,[size=15pt]it is about our 19th century security forces fronting to cope with 21st century security threats[/size]

Was this just discovered? And yet the Nigerian customs pride themselves of securing our boarders for over 52 years yet they never knew this? Besides who R they fooling, we know that many illegal immigrants are aided to get long terrm residency through customs and immigration officers. That's y there R so many unskilled/semi skilled lebanese, jordanians, italians and Asians 4uking up and taking over the country's construction industry, while our own citizens who R engineers earn peanuts or remain largly unemployed in their own country!

PITY!

So no one has been watching our borders until the BH invasion. The foreigners are already in and are killing citizens at will.

I can show these kind folk parts of Seme border that they do not know exist.

Nawa oo

eghost247: wow 1497 thats a big figure Nigerian Immigration Service what the hell you waiting for

is it immigration? Even customs needs to be there too just for the smugglers only.

Maybe its good news so that if Nigeria becomes too jagged to live in we can exit the country through 1,500 routes without traffic conjestion.

ochukoccna: Except 9ja is a totalitarian state like North Korea, Iran etal or a ridiculously land locked country there's no way you can shut out your entire borders save you plant landmines and barbwire it.
Even mighty America's borders have many illegal routes yet their borders are not classified porous
Let's face it, it is not about illegal routes,[size=15pt]it is about our 19th century security forces fronting to cope with 21st century security threats[/size]

*we need 0ur own GREAT WALL OF 9JA*

Nigerian Government identifies 1,497 illegal routes into Nigeria? thats bull bull bull. How about through the international airport. How many illegal Africans pass through our international airport everyday but dont leave the country.

They enter on a premise that Nigeria shares a border with their country - which the ECOWAS allows, but nobody monitors their movement. If such people stay put in Lagos, is there any way a bonafide Nigerian can be identified on the streets of Lagos (for ex?)