The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), CGI Muhammad Babandede has charged the newly commissioned Officers of the Service to quickly embrace high Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) Skills to remain relevant in the unfolding realities in the Service.
CGI Babandede gave the charge during the Passing out Parade of Four Hundred and Thirty (430) Officers of the 46th Superintendent Basic Course at the premier Immigration Training School, Kano.
In a signed by the Service Public Relations Officer, ACI Amos Okpu, the CGI noted that with the launching of the paperless regime in all official communication activities, it will be difficult for any Officer who is not ICT-compliant to fit into the NIS system.
“The Service now operates paperless regime. All my management staff and I do no longer attend to physical files but work from anywhere and at anytime electronically, following the recent launch of the Electronic Records Management (ERM) System for the Service. We shall cascade it down to all Personnel”, he said.
The CGI who was the Parade reviewing Officer maintained that management has continued to demonstrate huge commitment to human capacity development efforts to ensuring that the Service produces a professional workforce that would be sufficiently capable to confront emerging challenges in Border Security and Migration Management matters.
Speaking earlier, the Commandant of the School, Comptroller AR Sabo, stated that the cadets were taken through modern Border Security and Migration Management trainings including physical drills to make them fit for the tasks ahead.
He stressed that members of the directing staff of the School demonstrated uncommon commitment during the Course and thanked the CGI for the opportunity while requesting for upgrade of hostel facility for the directing staff for enhanced productivity.
Participants of the 46th Superintendent Basic Course are serving Personnel in the Service who by reason of promotion, upgrading and or conversion have risen to the Superintendent cadre and must attend the refresher Course before they can be commissioned into the Officers’ Cadre of the Service. This set is the third of such Courses so far held since 2018.
