This interview was conducted amid a mild drama that ensued right at the office of the Controller of Immigration at Seme border in Lagos. While the Immigration boss, Dom Asogwa, was gearing up to answer our first question, his men informed him of the arrest of five young Nigerian girls travelling to Ghana without valid documents. He ordered that they should be brought before us to witness what they go through daily.

THE Seme border Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, collected N701.5 million as revenue in August 2017 as against N499.6 million recorded in August 2016, representing a year-on-year increase of 40.4 percent.