{"id":74449,"date":"2025-08-28T15:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74449"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:31:11","slug":"nis-doubles-passport-fees-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/28\/nis-doubles-passport-fees-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"NIS Doubles Passport Fees in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), has announced a sharp increase in the cost of international passports, a decision that will significantly affect Nigerian travelers.<\/p>\n<p>Effective September 1, 2025, the fee for a 32-page passport with five-year validity will rise from N50,000 to N100,000, while a 64-page passport with 10-year validity will jump from N100,000 to N200,000.<\/p>\n<p>The NIS said the upward review was necessitated by rising production costs and the need to enhance service delivery.<\/p>\n<p>This adjustment marks the first major increase in more than a decade and comes at a time of growing demand for international travel documents.<\/p>\n<p>However, the development has triggered public debate, with many Nigerians questioning both the timing and justification of the hike.<\/p>\n<p>The service has yet to release a detailed breakdown of the new fee structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo &nbsp; The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), has announced a sharp increase in the cost of international passports, a decision that will significantly affect Nigerian travelers. Effective September 1, 2025, the fee for a 32-page passport with five-year validity will rise from N50,000 to N100,000, while a 64-page passport with 10-year validity will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,1746],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74449","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74451,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74449\/revisions\/74451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}