President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday inaugurated Nigeria’s new 64-page e-passport, which takes effect from Friday, 1 August.
Speaking at the launch which took place before Federal Executive Council meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, said the pages of the traveling document was increased from 32 to 64 to cater to frequent travelers who often changed their passport due to limited pages for visa.
“One thing one must know today is that it is not the issue of 64-page passport that is key to Nigerians but the security. If our passport could be easily faked by criminals, then we will have problems,” he said.
He called on officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service to protect the integrity of the passport by making sure that it would be difficult for anyone to fake.
The president and Vice President Namadi Sambo then took turns to be captured in order to be issued with the new traveling document.
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