The National President of Unilorin Alumni Association, Dr. Stephen Olawale Fasakin, has hailed the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for extending the tenure of Mrs. Kemi Nanna Nandap as the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS).
Dr Fasakin, who is also the Deputy Chairman, Association of Nigerian Universities Alumni, in a statement on behalf of the entire alumni family, said it was heartwarming that one of them in Unilorin was found worthy of not just the appointment but its extension for another term.
Fasakin said “Mrs Kemi Nanna Nandap, a distinguished alumna and a true Better By Far product of the University of Ilorin, has also made the university proud by discharging her duties meritoriously.”
According to the Unilorin Alumni President, the extension “is well merited, timely, and in the best interest of national security and service delivery,” noting that “Mrs. Nandap has proven to be one of the most reform-minded and result-driven public servants in this administration.”
He listed some of her achievements at the NIS to include passport reforms and service delivery and pointed out that “she cleared over 200,000 passport backlogs within weeks of assuming office, centralised passport production to increase capacity from 300 to 5,000 per day, and fully digitised the passport application process to curb racketeering and restore dignity to.”
The association also listed border security and technological innovation as among Mrs Nandap’s achievements, saying “She launched the landmark e-Border Solution Project with Command and Control Centre, Advance Passenger Information System (APIS), Passenger Name Record (PNR), deployment of e-Gates at all international airports, drones and AI-driven surveillance, and consolidated over 15 million migration records into the Border Control System.”
Fasakin also listed war against human trafficking and transnational crime among her innovations at NIS, and held that “as DCG Migration and now as CG, she coordinated operations that rescued 137 victims of human trafficking and dismantled 42 trafficking syndicates, and strengthened collaboration with IOM, INTERPOL, ECOWAS and the EU.”
These, he added, had earned her and the Nigeria Immigration Service international recognition and regional leadership as she was elected Chairperson of the ECOWAS Heads of Immigration Forum in 2024 and championed the ECOWAS Biometric Identity Card for regional integration.
According to Fasakin, Nandap had also championed personnel welfare and capacity building in the service, saying she made the welfare and professionalism of officers through improved health insurance and pension a priority, “and initiated specialised trainings in document fraud detection, migration data analysis and border management for over 87 senior officers.”
Mrs. Nandap, the third female to lead the NIS is a graduate of Biochemistry from the University of Ilorin, the Unilorin Alumni said “has brought intellectual depth, discipline and innovation to reposition the NIS in line with President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.”
The association expressed pride that the University of Ilorin Alumni family “is well represented” and assured President Tinubu that “she will use this extended tenure of 18 months to deepen these reforms and consolidate on institutional excellence.”
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