{"id":21963,"date":"2024-03-14T11:03:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T11:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigeria-niger-border-immigration-boss-directs-personnel-to-resume-duty-immediately\/"},"modified":"2024-03-14T11:03:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T11:03:03","slug":"nigeria-niger-border-immigration-boss-directs-personnel-to-resume-duty-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigeria-niger-border-immigration-boss-directs-personnel-to-resume-duty-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria-Niger Border: Immigration boss directs personnel to resume duty immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Comptroller-General of Immigration, CGI, Kemi Nandap, has directed all personnel deployed to the Nigeria-Niger Republic border to resume work immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Nandap gave the directive in a statement signed by the Acting Service Public Relations Officer, PRO, Mr Kenneth Kure, on Thursday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The order followed the reopening the borders between the two countries, which were closed in conformity with the decision of ECOWAS.<\/p>\n<p>ECOWAS had imposed sanctions on Niger Republic, including the closure of land and air borders, following the coup that ousted President Mahmed Bazoum.<\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu ordered the reopening of the borders on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Following the development, the Immigration boss directed all Comptrollers stationed at States and Border Commands along the Nigeria-Niger Republic border to comply promptly and lift all restrictions on human movement.<\/p>\n<p>The CGI assured that the Service would continue to facilitate safe and orderly border crossings while upholding the integrity and security of Nigeria\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria-Niger Border: Immigration boss directs personnel to resume duty immediately<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Comptroller-General of Immigration, CGI, Kemi Nandap, has directed all personnel deployed to the Nigeria-Niger Republic border to resume work&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5858,12262,15,12263],"tags":[8541,1807,12266,12265,180,12264],"class_list":["post-21963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immigration","category-kemi-nandap","category-news","category-nigeria-niger-border","tag-border","tag-immigration","tag-kemi","tag-nandap","tag-news","tag-nigeria-niger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}