The Nigeria Immigration Service generated a total of N39.06bn through the issuance of passports and other services within the 2018 fiscal period.

The figure is contained in a report on the activities of the agency which was released by the National Bureau of Statistics.

The NBS in the report said the amount generated by NIS in 2018 represents an increase of 9.34 per cent over the N35.72bn local revenue generated in 2017.

In terms of passport application, the report stated that a total of 1,011,158 passport applications were received in 2018 as against 720,958 received in 2017