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Tinubu (sitting)Comptroller-General, Nigeria Immigration Service· 12 March 2024 — sitting

Kemi Nandap

First female substantive Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service.

The record

Nandap (b. Plateau State) was sworn in as the first woman to head NIS substantively. Her early-tenure priorities have been the passport-backlog clearance directive (six-week issuance window) and the rollout of the contactless passport-renewal service for diaspora applicants.

Sources

  • Federal Ministry of Interior — Press release, 12 March 2024
Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged

Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.