Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has announced a series of reforms aimed at modernising the country’s immigration services, noting that the ministry has saved the government millions of naira through an automated application system. Speaking as a guest on Episode 2 of ‘Unfiltered: The Big Interview,’ a YouTube interview series hosted by O’tega ‘The Tiger’ Ogra, and released on Saturday, the minister detailed plans to automate passport applications, introduce home delivery for passports, and implement advanced passenger information systems at airports. He said, “When we came on board in August last year, it was about stock-taking because I always say this, as a professional, you spend more time planning so that execution can be pretty easy and we’ve been able to do that across all our agencies and today, the short-term goals that we had for ourselves we’ve been able to achieve that.
“For example, in Immigration, the short-term goals include clearing our backlog of over 204,000 passports that we inherited, we cleared that in slightly over two weeks, less than three weeks we’re able to do that and under President Bola Tinubu, we made sure that passport backlog has become something of the past that will never happen again. “We went through our automation process which is basically broken into three different stages but in terms of our short-term target, it’s achieving the first two then the midterm target is, of course, the third one which is wh.
