IMMIGRATION AND PRISONS SERVICES BOARD ACT
Act · Security
Policy date: 2019-01-01
An Act establishes a board to handle personnel management for the Nigeria Immigration Service and Prisons Service. It targets officers in these services and the board itself. This ensures merit-based appointments, promotions, and fair discipline.
IMMIGRATION AND PRISONS SERVICES BOARD ACT
What Is This Policy?
An Act establishing a joint board responsible for the personnel management, appointments, and disciplinary proceedings of staff of both the Nigeria Immigration Service and the Nigerian Prisons (Correctional) Service.
Who Does It Target?
Immigration and Correctional Service officers at all ranks The Immigration and Prisons Services Board Federal Ministry of Interior Personnel seeking promotion or facing disciplinary proceedings
What Does It Aim to Achieve?
Provide a unified, independent board to manage the careers of Immigration and Correctional Service personnel, ensuring merit-based appointments, promotions, and fair discipline.
Key Features
Joint Board: Single board manages personnel matters for both Immigration and Correctional Services. Appointment Powers: Board appoints, promotes, and deploys staff of both services. Disciplinary Functions: Board conducts disciplinary proceedings for officers of both services. Independence: Board operates independently of day-to-day ministerial control on personnel matters.
Current Status
Rollout Stage: Active Coverage: Nigeria Immigration Service and Nigerian Correctional Service personnel Beneficiaries: Professionalism in immigration and correctional services Funding: Federal Government
How to Access
Personnel management matters: engage Board through your service command Disciplinary proceedings: officers have right to representation and appeal Application method: Personnel matters: contact the Immigration and Prisons Services Board.
Important Terms
Board decisions on promotions are final subject to judicial review The Correctional Service Act 2019 updates the Correctional Service provisions Immigration Act 2015 provides the operational framework for Immigration Service
Official Resources
Website: https://www.interior.gov.ng Contact: Federal Ministry of Interior
Legal Framework
The Immigration and Prisons Services Board Act established a joint personnel management board for immigration and prisons staff. It is recognized under Section 315 of the 1999 Constitution as an existing law, and has been largely superseded by separate institutional frameworks — the Nigeria Immigration Service Act and the Correctional Services Act 2019 (which reformed the Nigerian Prisons Service into the Nigerian Correctional Service).