From Abdullahi Shuaibu, Lafia

President Muhammadu Buhari has charged officers and men of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) to shun corruption and other vices that would affect effective discharge of their duties.

The president, who made the call in Lafia, Nasarawa State, during the 2016 comptroller -General Annual Conference and Stakeholders Interactive Forum yesterday, also urged them to always discharge their responsibilities diligently.

Buhari, who was represented by the Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Danbazau further charged the officers to work as a team to ensure effective service delivery that could be emulated by future generation of Nigerians.

While expressing Federal Government’s readiness to support them for effective service delivery, he  also urged them to link with other security agencies in the country to enable them succeed in their border security and other immigration services as spelt out in the Immigration Act.

“Inter agencies cooperation must be based on mutual trust and respect, there should be a system in a communication architecture linking security agencies with a collaborative technology along the trusted information network.”

Earlier, Governor Umaru Al-Makura, who was represented by his deputy, Silas Agara also called for a greater synergy between the Nigerian Immigration Service and Embassy of other countries with a view to creating more scrutiny in the process of issuance of visa to both citizens and other nationals applying to enter Nigeria.

Governor Al-makura further appealed to the Ministry of Interior to make more collaborative policies that would bring the Nigerian Immigration Service and other relevant agencies to fashion out ways of covering free entry and exit into Nigeria.

He also called on the National  ‎Assembly to review immigration policies on the issuance of passports to eligible citizens of Nigeria, saying this will put in place strategy to ascertain genuine immigration and internationally displaced persons in the  various borders.

“this will go a long way in fishing out illegality immigrants that ordered criminals who hide under the canopy of refugees to perpetrate crimes  “ Al-Makura added.

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FG calls for collaboration to boost economy

From Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja

The Federal Government has called for active collaboration between the relevant Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to help boost the nation’s economy.

Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita, made the call  at the meeting of the Public Private Consultative Forum (3PUCF) for all MDAs.

According to her, for the exploration of new ideas to improve service delivery to the populace, there must be a robust synergy and active collaboration between the public and private sectors of the economy, which will serve as a platform for sharing experiences on what works, for whom and under what condition.

She re-affirmed government’s commitment to promoting Public Private Partnership (PPP), saying it was a viable development model particularly as the change agenda places a high premium on rapid modernisation and expansion of the country’s infrastructure. Oyo-Ita assured  that her office will continue to support active collaboration between the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) and all the Public Private Partnership (PPP) Units in the MDAs of the Federal Government so that the objective of the PUCF is achieved within the global  National PPP programme.

She added that a review of the global economic environment over the past two decades revealed an unprecedented investment in infrastructure across the world driven by the realisation that infrastructure is vital to sustain long term economic growth and to meet the world’s critical challenges.

Speaking earlier, the Director General, Infrastructure Concession and Regulatory Commission (ICRC) Mallam Aminu Diko, stressed the urgent need for MDAs to rapidly adopt PPP Procurement in order to accelerate national development and bridge the infrastructural gab in the country.

He said that the 3PUCF forum was initiated by the ICRC to provide a stakeholder engagement platform to accelerate knowledge and experience sharing among key PPP Personnel in the MDAs in order to help boast the nation’s economy.