{"id":22179,"date":"2019-03-27T09:22:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T09:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=22179"},"modified":"2019-03-29T09:25:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T09:25:48","slug":"diary-of-an-applicant-praying-fasting-whistleblowing-extreme-ways-to-secure-the-nigerian-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/diary-of-an-applicant-praying-fasting-whistleblowing-extreme-ways-to-secure-the-nigerian-passport\/","title":{"rendered":"DIARY OF AN APPLICANT: Praying, fasting, whistleblowing\u2026 extreme ways to secure the Nigerian passport"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>BY OGUNBOWALE OLUGBENGA<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Do you have a passport? A Nigerian Passport? Congratulations!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"amp-wp-inline-f62a86b1328cd4134bec55ddf6de989a\">You are one of the lucky few who have endured the torment of queuing up for hours, days, weeks and sometimes months to secure a passport for the official fee of N17,800.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"amp-wp-inline-f62a86b1328cd4134bec55ddf6de989a\">If you don\u2019t have the patience for queues and weeks of meaningless visits, paying an official as much as N40,000 will guarantee you get your passport the same day or at most, in 3 days (depending on the state).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"amp-wp-inline-f62a86b1328cd4134bec55ddf6de989a\">Apparently, I thought I could \u201cdo it on my own\u201d. I made the grievous error of paying for my passport renewal online on<\/span><span class=\"amp-wp-inline-f62a86b1328cd4134bec55ddf6de989a\">\u00a0January 4, 2019. Here is a quick rundown of how the immigration service has frustrated my life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecable.ng\/diary-of-an-applicant-praying-fasting-whistleblowing-extreme-ways-to-secure-the-nigerian-passport\/amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.thecable.ng\/diary-of-an-applicant-praying-fasting-whistleblowing-extreme-ways-to-secure-the-nigerian-passport\/amp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BY OGUNBOWALE OLUGBENGA Do you have a passport? A Nigerian Passport? Congratulations! You are one of the lucky few who have endured the torment of queuing up for hours, days, weeks and sometimes months to secure a passport for the official fee of N17,800. If you don\u2019t have the patience for queues and weeks of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-nigeria","type-news-articles","item-year-660","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22180,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22179\/revisions\/22180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}