{"id":49948,"date":"2021-09-11T18:14:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T17:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=49948"},"modified":"2021-09-11T17:32:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T16:32:18","slug":"nigeria-immigration-%e2%80%8bbabandede-bows-out-jere-in-as-acting-cg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-immigration-%e2%80%8bbabandede-bows-out-jere-in-as-acting-cg","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Immigration: \u200bBabandede bows out, Jere in as acting CG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) Comptroller General, Muhammad Babandede has \u2018bowed\u2019 out of service.<\/p>\n<p>A valedictory service on Friday at the headquarters was attended by serving, retired officers as well as Babandede\u2019s family\/members and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Babandede noted that tremendous changes were made under his leadership with the assistance of officers and men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very proud today. I am leaving the Service better that I met it. I have made my contributions and I pray that successive leaders will improve on what we have done,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sam Nwosu, Dr. Tony Luka Elumelu of the ECOWAS Commission and Mr. Rafael Rois Molina of FIAPP \/ATPSOM hailed Babandede for his efforts and achievements.<\/p>\n<p>The former CG passed the baton of leadership to Deputy Comptroller General, Idris Isah Jere who becomes the acting CG.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, Jere was in-charge of the Directorate of Finance and Accounts.<\/p>\n<p>A pull-out parade for Babandede will be held on Monday, 13th September at the parade ground of the headquarters in Abuja.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) Comptroller General, Muhammad Babandede has \u2018bowed\u2019 out of service. A valedictory service on Friday at the headquarters was attended by serving, retired officers as well as Babandede\u2019s family\/members and friends. Babandede noted that tremendous changes were made under his leadership with the assistance of officers and men. \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":49947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,4577,5389,254,2298],"class_list":["post-49948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-babandede","tag-jere","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-immigration"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria Immigration: \u200bBabandede bows out, Jere in as acting CG - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) Comptroller General, Muhammad Babandede has \u2018bowed\u2019 out of service. 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