The minister of interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, says the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has cleared about 60,000 passport backlogs in four days.

The minister spoke when the minister of humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation, Betta Edu, paid him a courtesy visit to the office in Abuja.

He said the number was out of the over 200,000 pending passport applications.

The minister had directed the NIS to ensure the clearance of all pending passport applications within two weeks.

In a statement by his special adviser on media and publicity, Alao Babatunde, the minister restated that he would clean up the passport crisis in the country.