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The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has said it remitted over N11.68 billion and 22,972 dollars in eight months into the coffers of the federal government.

                The comptroller general of NIS, Muhammad Babandede, said this at the comptroller general’s annual workshop in Benin on Thursday, October 24, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Babandede said that NIS was not only a key security agency of government but a service provider and a revenue-generating agency. He said: "In 2018, we remitted the sum of N6,945,585,360 and $36,909,411 to FGN as its shares of the revenue we generated through Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects. "This year, from January 1st to August 31st, we lodged the sum of N11,682,009,761 and $22,972.38 into the coffers. "Every immigration officer, serving and retired, strongly believes that a review of some of the PPPs will double or even triple revenue at a time we are running a deficit budget. “I must not be quoted out of context. “I am a strong believer of PPP because it leverages resources and enhances efficiency, but not some of the PPPs we operate that exploit our resources and add little value to our work.