It is stupid for NIS to ask married women to travel to Abuja to effect a name change on their passport – Interior Minister, Olubunmi

Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, the Minister of Interior, has criticized the impracticality of requiring married women to undergo the inconvenience of traveling to the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) headquarters in Abuja solely for a data change.

Speaking during a dinner with members of the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu ABAT Media Centre and social media influencers in Abuja, Ojo questioned whether the immigration personnel in Abuja possess more capabilities than their counterparts in the various passport offices across the Federation.

“There is one stupid thing I have seen and it is that a woman gets married, changes her name and then she has to come to Abuja all the way from say Kaura Namoda or Enugu just to come and effect a change of name in her passport. It is absurd.

“I can’t just figure it that you want to change just your name and you have to be in Abuja. I have asked the immigration people, is it that immigration people in Abuja have more than one head than those in the states?”