Nigeria Immigration Commences Investigation Into Cause Of Fire Outbreak

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has commenced an investigation into the cause of the fire outbreak that gutted its headquarters in Abuja, on Sunday.

The fire outbreak which occurred on early hours of Sunday, affected three sections of the headquarters building.

The Comptroller General of NIS, Muhammad Babandede while addressing the journalists in Abuja on Monday listed the affected sections to include the Call Center where about 10,000 calls are received, outside  and within Nigeria on visa and passport matters.

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Also affected is the Interpol Connectivity where the Service says they have lost connectivity with the airport and 24 locations and the Migration Information and data analysis system.

Babandede also added that some hard disks were retrieved by the ICT team.

The Immigration boss assured Nigerians that the setback would not affect their services as they are working to ensure connectivity, would be restored in about four days.

The Permanent Secretary Ministry of Interior and Representative of the Minister, Shuaib Belgore in his address said all the systems are backed up, and no data was lost.

He said he is delighted at the prompt response that was given to the incident, and all hands are on deck to ensure transparency in the investigation process.