A closer look at the centralised passport personalisation centre

The September inspection

The Nigeria Immigration Service reported on 18 September 2025 that Tunji-Ojo and Permanent Secretary Magdalene Ajani inspected its newly built Centralized Passport Personalization Center in Abuja. The service linked the facility to its passport modernisation programme.

Reading the capacity claim carefully

In that account, the minister described an expected increase in daily passport production from 300 to 5,000 units. That is an attributed capacity claim made during the inspection. The release alone does not establish that the higher figure was subsequently sustained every day or that each application moved through the process without delay.

What applicants would want to know

A production line can be assessed by output and reliability. An applicant experiences the whole journey: a submitted application, the necessary checks, production and collection or delivery. Those stages should not be collapsed into a single number.

Our editorial test for a follow-up is straightforward: compare the announced capacity with dated operating data, then examine the waiting time that applicants actually experience. That would help separate the significance of new infrastructure from the wider work needed to deliver a dependable service.