Politics of the Nigerian passport

When the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) said it was suspending fresh passport applications in order to clear the backlog, the first question that jumped at me was: what is so difficult about this thing? Nigerians, home and abroad, have been going through hell to secure a document that should be steadily available. Maybe I have not read wide enough, but I have not heard of any country in the world where there is passport booklet scarcity. I would think some things are so simple that we shouldn’t have to toil day and night for them. Why must everything in Nigeria have…