The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) introduced a contactless passport renewal system to simplify the application process ...

A guide to 15 countries that require American passport holders to obtain a visa or other form of travel authorization to ...

The department issued the guidance after widespread confusion over whether passports with “X” sex markers would be valid for international travel.

The Economic Community of West African States announced recently that the three-member nations where coup plotters overthrew elected governments had finally exited the community. Issues related to ...

Left unsaid was that the three juntas were facing increasing international condemnation for atrocities ... continue to allow free movement and trade for everyone with an ECOWAS passport. Since 2005, ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger officially left the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on January 29, having ...

“We have taken all necessary measures with the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization ... further confirmed that holders of the AES passport will enjoy unrestricted movement within ECOWAS ...

Also, the Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs ... Despite their exit, ECOWAS announced that passports and identity cards bearing its logo would remain valid ...

The Border Management Authority (BMA) on Friday said it intercepted 50,000 people without passports who were ... over 9,491 aircrafts through our international airports and about 660 vessels ...

Consequently, the sub-regional bloc directed all relevant authorities within and outside ECOWAS Member-States to “recognise National passports and identity cards bearing ECOWAS logo held by the ...

Instead, the three breakaway states formed the Alliance of Sahel States, an alternate bloc and launched their own biometric passports. ECOWAS said on Wednesday the remaining members ...