{"id":44765,"date":"2024-08-22T06:43:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T06:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=44765"},"modified":"2024-08-22T06:43:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T06:43:06","slug":"fg-increases-nigerian-passport-fees-effective-september-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/08\/22\/fg-increases-nigerian-passport-fees-effective-september-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Increases Nigerian Passport Fees Effective September 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced an increase in the fees for obtaining a Nigerian passport, effective from September 1, 2024. The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) spokesperson, DCI Kenneth Udo, made this known in a statement, explaining that the decision is part of efforts to maintain the quality and integrity of the Nigerian Standard Passport.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the revised fee structure, the cost of a 32-page passport booklet with a 5-year validity has been raised from N35,000 to N50,000. Additionally, the 64-page passport booklet with a 10-year validity will now cost N100,000, up from the previous N70,000.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The NIS emphasized that the fees for passport services in the diaspora remain unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While the NIS expressed regret for any inconvenience this increase may cause applicants, it reaffirmed its commitment to ensuring transparency and delivering quality services to Nigerians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced an increase in the fees for obtaining a Nigerian passport, effective from September 1, 2024. The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) spokesperson, DCI Kenneth Udo, made this known in a statement, explaining that the decision is part of efforts to maintain the quality and integrity of the Nigerian Standard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":44766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44767,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44765\/revisions\/44767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}