Reports has revealed no fewer than 3, 438 passports are being watch, while 23 are on the exemption list of the Nigeria Immigration Service. 

Meanwhile, there are indications that the Federal Government may not meet its 2021 revenue projection from NIS services.

It was gathered the names of the affected individuals, have been placed with security agencies at the nation’s international airports where they will be arrested on sight. 

The NIS has revealed it revoked 149, 875 stolen or lost passports and uploaded them to Interpol’s Stolen and Lost Travel Documents database via the Web Services for Data Management platform.

According to the 2020 NIS annual report suspect index, 308 persons were placed on the watch list in 2019, 166 in 2020, while 51 persons were stop-listed in two years.