BY Victoria Ojeme

ABUJA—Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has uncovered new illegal immigrant routes in Sokoto and Kastina states.
The new routes, according to NIS, may have been the result of the total closure of the nation’s borders in Borno and Yobe states.

The border routes were closed in January this year, as part of a partial emergency imposed on 15 local governments across Borno, Yobe, Plateau and Niger states by President Goodluck Jonathan.

In spite of the border closure, terrorists elements from neighbouring countries were reported to be actively involved in terrorists activities in the country.

Service Public Relation Officer, Assistant Comptroller of Immigration, Joachim Olumba, told Vanguard: “It is because of the blocking of Borno-Yobe axis that the attention of illegal immigrants shifted to other axis such as Sokoto and Katsina.”