The Minister of Interior Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo has disclosed that Federal Government of Nigeria generated about N2.4 billion in 2024 from marriage contracts, He noted that money was generated via the Ministry of Interior’s marriage registry across the country.
The Minister of Interior disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja during a media interface with journalists.
According to him, the ministry also generated over N3.2 billion from expatriate quota applications. He pointed out that overall, there was a 150 percent increase in revenue generated in 2024.
The Minister further added that the Federal Government also repatriated 828 foreigners to their various countries in 2024.
Though he did not list the foreigners’ specific offences, the Minister said the repatriation was carried out by the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS.
Meanwhile, the National Assembly Joint Committee on Interior has commended the Interior Minister over the 2024 budget performance of the ministry.
The Joint Committee gave the commendation when the Minister appeared to defend the 2025 budget of the ministry on Wednesday.
Addressing the Committee, Tunji-Ojo noted that the ministry’s Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, exceeded its target in the 2024 budget.
He said, “In 2024, we had a revenue target as approved by the National Assembly of N1.2 billion for business expatriate quotas and naturalization. But what we were able to generate was N4,508,306,968.5.”
Tunji-Ojo explained that the increase in the IGR was not as a result of the increase in expatriate’s quota revenue. But that a lot of key sectors within the ministry came alive in the last financial year.
The Minister, therefore, attributed the increase to some measures adopted by the ministry.
He stated that Ministry has to close the leakages through zero remittances and full automated solutions.
“It was the automation of these solutions that closed some of the leakages that made the revenue to shoot up.”
source: Vanguard
Follow us for more news on our WhatsApp News Channels @
https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaC505jB4hdZ5Yx9g82U