Expdonaloaded News; How NIS stopped 23,472 youths from checking out of Nigeria

In its efforts to prevent young Nigerians from being lured into terrorism, prostitution, slavery and other illegal activities abroad, the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has come up with stringent measures to screen intending travellers out of the country.Abuja Metro gathered that in 15 months from January 2014 to March this year, the Service had barred 23,472 individuals from travelling out of the country at various departure points.This is in addition to the 758 others that were refused admission into host countries on arrival.

There have been reports in recent times of some Nigerians departing to join terrorist groups especially in the Middle East and North Africa including children of serving and retired top functionaries.
Again, two cousins from Kano were caught at the weekend trying to illegally cross into Pakistan from India where they were students of a Delhi University in their bid to join the Islamic State group (ISIS)
Imran Kabeer 24 and Sani Jamiliu 25, were arrested on Friday 7 as they made their way allegedly to join the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq as they made to scale a barbed wire fence.
When contacted on the development, spokesperson for the Nigeria Immigration Service, Chukwuemaka Obuah said “what the NIS is doing is to bar young Nigerians with doubtful intentions from leaving our shores.post by expdonaloaded.blogspot.com..
“Before the advent of ISIS the NIS has been battling with illegal migration, organised or otherwise. The push and pull factors have always been there and the NIS has fashioned a robust profiling mechanism that identifies those whose intent for going abroad is either inimical to themselves or the image of the country. The government exercise of diplomatic protection is exercised not only abroad but at ports of entry.”
He reiterated that “Nigeria is a catchment area for recruiters because of the high number of jobless people in the country. The terrorist group has a syndicate that arrange travel documents, visas, ticket and money for their recruits.
“To counter this, the NIS now engages in intense profiling of travellers. We have always had problems of Nigerians going abroad for greener pasture. We look at the age of the intending traveller and the person he is travelling with, put them by the side and profile them thoroughly,” he declared.