Nigeria, Feb. 8 -- The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has refuted speculations that it has relocated its Enugu office to Abuja to exclude the South-east from passport issuance in Nigeria.

The NIS spokesperson, Akinsola Akinlabi, refuted the speculations in a statement on Saturday.

There have been speculations circulating on social media which suggested that the NIS authorities removed a passport-producing machine from its office in Enugu State.

The machine was said to be the only one used for the production of international passports in the South-east.

But in the Saturday statement, Mr Akinlabi, a deputy comptroller of immigration, described the speculations as "entirely false and a gross misrepresentation" of the ongoing governmen...