The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has introduced a rise in the price of buying the Nigerian worldwide passport from N50,000 to N100,000 for a 32-page passport with 5-year validity.
In accordance with the Service, a 64-page passport with 10-year validity will now value N200,000, a 100% improve from the present N100,000 price.
The increment takes impact from September 1, 2025.
The NIS stated the increment was needed to enhance the standard of the Nigerian passport, however famous that this solely applies to purposes made in Nigeria.
Saying the increment through an announcement launched on Thursday by its Public Relations Officer, AS Akinlabi, the Service acknowledged:
“In a bid to uphold the standard and integrity of the Nigerian Passport, the Nigeria Immigration Service hereby broadcasts an upward evaluate of Nigerian Stardard Passport charges, set to take impact on 1st September 2025.
“The evaluate which solely have an effect on Passport Software charges made in Nigeria, now set a brand new price threshold for 32-page with 5-year validity at N100,000 and 64-page with 10-year validity at N200,000.
“In the meantime, Nigerian Passport Software charges made by Nigerians in diaspora stay unchanged at $150 for 32-page with 5-year validity and $230 for 64-page with 10-year validity.”
This got here because the second value increment in a single yr. In August final yr, the Service had introduced a value hike that noticed the value of the 32-page passport leap from N35,000 to N50,000.
“As a part of its efforts to keep up the standard and integrity of the Nigerian Customary Passport, the Federal Authorities has permitted an upward evaluate of the charges for the passport, efficient from September 1, 2024.
“Based mostly on the evaluate, a 32-page passport booklet with five-year validity beforehand charged at N35,000 will now be N50,000 solely; whereas a 64-page passport booklet with 10-year validity which was N70,000 will probably be N100,000,” the Service had stated in its assertion final yr.
Nigeria’s passport system has seen important enhancements, significantly beneath the management of the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, who, in August 2023, directed the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to clear a backlog of over 200,000 pending passport purposes inside two weeks.
