NATIONAL BORDER MANAGEMENT STRATEGY AND ACTION PLAN
Plan · Security
Policy date: 2024-01-01
A Plan provides a framework for securing Nigeria's borders and managing migration to prevent cross-border crimes. It targets security agencies like the Immigration Service and Armed Forces for integrated border control. This aims to make borders less porous and strengthen national security.
What Is This Policy?
The National Border Management Strategy and Action Plan is Nigeria’s comprehensive framework for securing and managing its borders, ensuring safe and orderly migration, preventing cross-border crime, and strengthening national security.
Who Does It Target?
the strategy is directed at Nigeria’s security agencies, particularly the Nigeria Immigration Service, Customs, Police, and Armed Forces, who are tasked with implementing border control measures.
What Does It Aim to Achieve?
It seeks to strengthen Nigeria’s border security architecture, making borders less porous and more resilient against illegal entry, smuggling, trafficking, and terrorism.
Key Features
Integrated Border Management (IBM): Coordinated approach across agencies. Humanitarian Border Management: Protecting vulnerable migrants and refugees. Community Engagement & Policing: Involving border communities in security. Infrastructure Development: Modern border posts, surveillance technology. Policy & Legislation: Updating laws to reflect modern migration realities.
Current Status
Rollout Stage: it has been implemented Coverage: all land, sea, and air borders. Beneficiaries to Date: Border communities, migrants, and security agencies; exact numbers not publicly available. Funding: Federal Government allocations
How to Access
Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS):(immigration.gov.ng in Bing) • Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA): https://onsa.gov.ng • International Organization for Migration (IOM Nigeria): https://nigeria.iom.int • National Assembly Portal: https://nass.gov.ng
Important Terms
Term 1- Integrated Border Management (IBM) This concept means that border security is not handled by one agency alone but through coordination among multiple institutions, immigration, Customs, Police, Armed Forces, and intelligence services. IBM ensures that these agencies share information, avoid duplication of efforts, and work together to secure Nigeria’s borders more effectively Term 2- Humanitarian Border Management This term highlights the need to treat migrants, refugees, and vulnerable groups with dignity and protection at border points. It balances security concerns with humanitarian obligations, ensuring that people fleeing conflict or disaster are not criminalized but given access to assistance, documentation, and safe passage.
Official Resources
Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) Website: https://immigration.gov.ng (immigration.gov.ng in Bing) 📍 Address: NIS Headquarters, Airport Road, Sauka, Abuja 📞 Phone: +234 (0) 9 462 9300 ✉️ Email: [email protected] Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) Website: https://onsa.gov.ng 📍 Address: Three Arms Zone, Abuja 📞 Phone: +234 (0) 9 234 0770 ✉️ Email: [email protected] International Organization for Migration (IOM Nigeria) Website: https://nigeria.iom.int Link to document- https://nctc.gov.ng/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/NSS-2019.pdf
Legal Framework
The National Border Management Strategy operates under the Immigration Act 2015, the Nigeria Customs Service Act 2023, and the National Security Agencies Act 1986. It aligns with the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022, the Trafficking in Persons Act 2015, the ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement of Persons, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Integrated Border Management standards, and the World Customs Organization (WCO) SAFE Framework of Standards.