‘Extra burden on Nigerians’: Obi slams FG for raising passport price

Former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi has faulted the upward review of Nigerian passport fees to N100,000 and N200,000 by the Federal Government.

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) had, on Thursday, August 28, 2025, announced a 100 per cent increment of the passport fee, effective September 1, 2025.

The NIS said that while the 32-page passport for five years will go for N100,000, the 64-page booklet for 10 years will be obtained at a cost of N200,000.

In his reaction on Thursday, Obi likened the passport price hike to the imposition of a burden on Nigerians by the President Bola Tinubu administration.

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Obi, the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 election, added that it is alarming that the price of the international passport is higher than the minimum wage for Nigerian workers.

Obi wrote on X: “The obsession of this administration with putting a burden on the populace is becoming legendary and continues to reveal its apparent disconnect with the people and the suffering.

“The International Passport fees in Nigeria have now skyrocketed to ₦100,000 for a 32-page booklet and ₦200,000 for 64 pages. This is the third increase in just two years.

“In a country where the new minimum wage is only ₦70,000, the cost of a single passport now exceeds a worker’s monthly salary, probably the only country in the world to achieve this feat.

“Instead of making life easier, this government keeps shifting the burden onto ordinary Nigerians.

“It is alarming that the price of the international passport is higher than what workers earn in a month.”

The Star