Directorates Units [7] The NIS as a strategic paramilitary organization comprises 25,303 (twenty five thousand three hundred and three) personnel, with officers ranging from Assistant, Inspectorate, Superintendent to Comptroller cadre responsible for all the key immigration duties in migration and border management.
The nature of the building and its robust IT infrastructure makes it a great investment and a huge contribution to global security, particularly with its effective connectivity to special platforms such as the INTERPOL and ICAO PKD/PKI databases..........with this, both local and transnational criminal activities can be easily monitored and nipped in the bud.” The Command and Control Centre is located at the NIS headquarters in Sauka.
The building is located within the NIS headquarters complex in Sauka, Abuja and has a gross floor area of 3600 square meters.
The facility provides air, marine, and land border surveillance and at the same time affords the NIS global integration where it can seamlessly work with the INTERPOL and other international security agency.
The Nigerian Immigration Service operates a tier-1 1.4 petabytes data centre within its sprawling headquarters complex in Abuja, which houses a comprehensive range of critical national informatics like citizens bio-data.