2027: Immigration moves to stop foreign mercenaries, illegal arms from entering Nigeria

The Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has announced plans to fortify information checks astatine the country’s borders up of the 2027 wide elections.

The determination is aimed astatine preventing overseas mercenaries, amerciable weapons and different transgression elements from entering Nigeria.

The Comptroller-General of the NIS, Kemi Nandap, announced the determination connected Friday successful Abuja during a sensitisation store for elder officers connected predetermination security, themed 'Election Monitoring and Prevention of Intimidation'.

Nandap, who was represented by the Deputy Comptroller-General successful complaint of Visa and Residency, Dr Franca Usiwoma Nwanneka, said the work had an important work successful protecting the country's borders and managing migration.

She warned that amerciable migration, quality trafficking, migrant smuggling and different cross-border crimes could airs superior threats to nationalist security.

“As we hole for the 2027 wide elections, fto america beryllium guided by the communal intent to support our nationalist security, uphold the regularisation of law, and lend to an electoral situation successful which each Nigerian tin workout their antiauthoritarian rights peacefully and without intimidation,” she said.

The migration main stressed that the NIS needed to enactment intimately with different information agencies to code the information challenges surrounding the elections.