Nigeria Immigration Service to acquire aircraft, drones for border surveillance ......Electronic gates at airports for passengers facilitation

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Nigeria Immigration Service to acquire aircraft, drones for border surveillance 
......Electronic gates at airports for passengers facilitation




Acting Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Services (NIS), Mrs Caroline Wuraola Adepoju has unfolded  plans by the border security and migration management body to  acquire aircraft, helicopters  and drones for  surveillance and aerial monitoring activities of the country.
Mrs Adepoju said such mobile critical infrastructure will go a long way for the NIS to discharge its core mandate of monitoring activities and the movement of persons across the country's land, sea and land borders.
Disclosing this yesterday in Lagos at a one- day retreat organised by NIS  Murtala Muhammed International Airport ( MMIA), Command  Lagos entitled : " One Impression : Inter-Agency Collaboration ".
 She said the acquisition of the equipment is already captured in the 2024 budget of the Ministry of Interior.
Besides the procurement of operational equipment, she said the NIS continues to invest in technology to drive the production of travel documents and other initiatives that would boost the security at the country' s borders as well as control the movement of persons into and out of the country.
She said effective 2024, the NIS will be deploying electronic gates at the airports to ease the facilitation of passengers coming into and out of the country.
The proposed arrangement, she said will ease the processing of passengers, reduce stress and fast track operational procedures with the deployment  of bio-metric technology.
The new thinking for the NIS , Adepoju said underscores the agenda of the  Minister of Interior Dr. Olubunmi Tunji Ojo’s support for border security with commitment to drive  the  restoration of  the agency's  aerial capabilities.

She said :  ” We are doing everything we can to ensure that NIS gets its aircraft back, we used to have aircraft for border surveillance, we are now putting this into our budget.

“We are going to buy aircraft, we will buy drones, we are going to buy helicopters to ensure that we effectively do aerial border management.”

The e-gate implementation, scheduled for early 2024, she said  aims to streamline entry for Nigerians through biometric identity verification, minimizing the need for direct interaction with immigration officers.

She explained :  “Very soon NIS will be deploying the e-gate to make it seamless for our nationals to come in, make it less stressful. In the early part of 2024 we will deploy the e-gate ensuring that our MIDAS will improve on them, ensuring our borders, air, land and sea are fortified.

“The electronic gate, for example our nationals may not need, except they are persons of interest, to be attended to by immigration officers. ”

Also speaking at the retreat, newly appointed Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Values and Social Justice, Mr Fela Durotoye urged agencies working at the airport to collaborate, share intelligence information to create new perceptions about the country in its drive for economic transformation.

On her part, Comptroller of NIS MMIA Command, Mrs Adeola Adesokan  said synergy among security and border management agencies at the airport has attracted more investors into the country .

Also speaking, the Managing Director, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Mr Kabir  Yusuf said the entire air travel value chain continues to harvest the benefits of collaboration among agencies at the Lagos Airport.

He was represented by the Regional Manager, South West / Airport Manager, Mr Sunday Ayodele , who craved for support in infrastructure to change the face of facilitation at the airport.

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