Nigeria Immigration Service, has issued Lagos State Deputy Governor, Obafemi Hamzat with new ten years enhanced passport.

The deputy governor who represented Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu in the unavailing and issuance of the passport was the first person to be issued the sixty-four page International passport.

Hamzat said he was happy with the new innovation by the service saying the exercise was bordered on national security.

According to him, government would key into the system to get database of resident in Lagos, saying with the data base by the immigration, government would be able to know its citizens better.

He commended the organisations and thanked President Mohammadu Buhari for approving the new passport.

The Deputy Governor promised to continue to partner with the service.

On his own, Comptroller-General of Immigration, Mohammed Babandede, who welcome Hamzat said the service had successfully launched the enhanced e-Passport by President Buhari in January this year, ” the service has successfully rolled out the document in Abuja.

Babandede said the service was now at the heart of the commercial centre of the country for the second phase of the roll out starting with the deputy governor of Lagos State.

He said after ten years of issuing the e-Passport, the service in twenty-seventeen found it expedient to review the document in line with International Civil Aviation Organisation’s requirement with a view to improving the security of the document viz -a -viz latest technology and global best practices.

Babandede said the philosophy behind it was national security and ease of doing business, saying that was why it had twenty additional security features, including the National Identity Number for robust identity management in Nigeria.

He said the document also had different menu, one of which was sixty-four page, ten year validity passport which would save Nigerian businessmen’s time and resources of frequent visit to passport offices, saying the new passport had poly carbonate technology which makes it more durable “.