The Nigeria Immigration Service has revealed that a total of 4,591,055 passports have been produced by the agency between August 2019 and May 2023.
It also stated that there were no fewer than 4,736,075 applications for passports within the period under review.
According to data obtained from a Ministry of Interior document, 470,363 passports were printed in 2019; 780,470 passports were created the next year, and 1, 057,908 passports were printed in 2021.
Similarly, 1,621,703 passports were manufactured in 2022, and 660,611 passports have been generated so far between January and May 2023.
The paper also included the total number of visa classes issued by the service to foreign nationals.
It said that a total of 342,766 visas were issued throughout the review period.
According to the breakdown, 70,582 visas were issued in 2019, 70,874 in 2020, 94,681 in 2021, 78,282 in 2022, and 28,347 between January and May 2023.
During this time, visa categories were expanded from six to 79.
The overall number of international visitors to the country between August 2019 and May 2023 was estimated to be 9,433,218.
In 2019, there were 1,123,754 movements; 1,579,667 in 2020; 2,750,846 in 2021; 2,998,306 in 2022; and 980,645 in 2023.
During the evaluation period, more than 150,000 stolen and lost travel document records were uploaded to INTERPOL’s database.
