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The Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has seized a total of 6,216 national identity cards and voter cards from some migrants in 21 border states across the country.

The Comptroller General of Immigrations (CGI), Isa Jere, disclosed this on Wednesday at a retreat for top management staff of the Service, in Abuja.

Jere said that 3,823 national identity cards and 2,393 voter cards unlawfully possessed by migrants were confiscated.

The vital documents, according to him, were intercepted in Nasarawa, Kebbi, Sokoto, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Kogi, Yobe, Kwara, Taraba, Plateau, Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Zamfara, Jigawa, Edo, Bauchi, Niger, and three other states.

Jere said that the cards were seized in ongoing operations to ensure that migrants from neighbouring countries did not participate in the forthcoming general elections.

The CGI warned that severe sanctions await any migrant who attempted to participate in the nation’s electoral process.

He said that the arrested culprits had since been returned to their countries in line with ECOWAS Protocol on free movement.

The CGI tasked all Immigration personnel to regard the February 25 and March 11, 2023 elections as an opportunity to showcase their proficiency in border management and intelligence gathering.

He warned that those caught compromising their duties would be treated as saboteurs and dealt with in accordance with the law.

Jere said the 2022 Electoral Act and the 1999 Constitution had placed a legal burden on all stakeholders in the electoral process, especially the NIS.

“This is why we resolved to hold comptrollers responsible for any failure recorded by their men,” he said.

He, therefore, charged heads of commands and formations across the country to upscale surveillance of all locations, including border crossings.

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) says it has seized over 6,000 national identity and voter cards from migrants in 21 border states.

Speaking on Wednesday at a retreat for top management staff of the service in Abuja, Isa Jere, controller general of the NIS, said 3,823 identity cards and 2,393 voter cards unlawfully possessed by migrants were intercepted and confiscated.

He said that the documents were intercepted in Nasarawa, Kebbi, Sokoto, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Kogi, Yobe, Kwara, Taraba, Plateau, Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Zamfara, Jigawa, Edo, Bauchi, Niger, and three other states.

Mccullum:
Some of you sense of reason is very lower in logical view or deliberately bias, is it all criminals police nabbed? have you seen EFCC arresting, Atiku, Kwankwanso, Tinubu since they were out of power? does that mean they were all saints? the answer is no, Obi too is not exempted from this circumstances.

All of them are politicians that committing executive crimes while their successors covering atrocities of their predecessors due to potential of committing same by the one presently in-charge at helm of affairs.

descarado:
Atiku ke. I never liked him. Infact, I will take tinubu instead of atiku to be honest.
For the fact that his region don't like him tells you something.
Besides, I read he has close to 50 or more children.
Shuuuu. Is he Solomon?

descarado:
I never underestimated what will happen in the North. Atiku for some reason is not liked in the North but between him and tinubu, they will chose atiku.
First is datti effect. That guy is the most highly connected as far as northern politics is concerned among the contestants.

When northerners didn't throw stones at obi during his initial visits, I know that message has been passed. Those behind him are bigger than buhari and his cabal. International cabal( the real cabal) chose obi. Nigeria is matured enough to go global. Anybody who want to remain behind, na im sabi. Cashless policy, reformed policies and politics, industrialisation, international agric and health sector, name them, we are over ripe.

As for almajiri, they will disappear as their clerics will be forced to teach them the real Islamic doctrines.

Director, Special Duties (iv) of the Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Ayiri Emami, in this interview says those working to sabotage the presidential flag bearer of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, are doing so because they do not want a strong willed person to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari. Adedayo Akinwale brings excerpts. . . . . .

To cut long story short, my fiance is an info giver, she na my gist mate, briefs me on anything and all that.

derealj:
Thank you for bringing this, people thought I pulled this analysis off my head but it's not so.

I got statistics from different opinion polls as basis for this and what you posted confirmed that.

Hanndye:
PDP has more fear of God than this ugly beast called APC, very inconsiderate sort of people.

olisefom:
I'm in for a constructive discussion on this. Kindly convince me, I want to learn.

sapele914:
Any serious minded person will ask himself, what concerns me with 40 years from now?

Ficklemind:
You mean I don’t have the right to take pictures with male friends? If there is anything attached between my male friends and I it should be my concern not anyone.

Moreover, I wasn’t trying to pass across any message to anyone by posting pictures with my course mates.

Omenlon:
you people are laughable. What makes you feel it only Peter Obi that has organic supporters? Unfortunately, you people don't know the support based of PDP and APC in Nigeria today is the strongest, from Sokoto to bornu, to Lagos to Delta, to Taraba to Akwa Ibom the structures are still there.

raumdeuter:
Your friend from before before tpia

Omenlon:
now I know you are just catching cruise, no vex. Obi will win everywhere, even he go win Benin Republic and Niger Republic join am too. Best of luck

Bundaweber:
Election no to far. Let us wait and see. You are just living in an utopia that is ever distant. Follow follow politics is all over the world and it is overwhelmingly present in Nigeria.