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Nigerian Immigration Service to Replace National Passport with ECOWAS E-passport
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has announced that Nigeria’s international passport would be replaced and would cease to be officially recognized by December 30, this year. The NIS Public Relations Officer, Ekpedeme King, told APA that the passport...
Nearly One Million Passengers have Used the Latest Face Scanning Technology At Britain’s Airports
Nearly one million passengers have used the latest face scanning technology at Britain’s airports, the Home Secretary, Alan Johnson announced today. He confirmed the figure while visiting the state-of-the-art facial recognition gates at Gatwick...
U.K. Government Announces New Proposals for DNA Retention
A series of proposals designed to ensure the right people are on the National DNA Database, as well as defining when people should come off has been announced by British Home Secretary Alan Johnson. DNA and the use of forensics play an essential role...
Liberian Government Launches Biometric Passport
The Liberian government has launched through its Foreign Affairs ministry a new biometric passport. The new passports are consistent with the requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) for Biometric Machine Readable Passports. According...
Togo Adopts New Biometric Passports
Togo has introduced new biometric passports offering greater security guarantees. The diplomatic service and ordinary passports will from now on be biometric. “The government of Togo wants to get in tune with countries that have already opted for...
Malawi Introduces Biometric System Tracing in Tobacco Sector
Godfrey Chapola, the Chief Executive of Malawi’s Tobacco Control Commission (TCC), the country’s tobacco regulatory body, announced Thursday that the body was in the process of developing a new tobacco recording system called Biometric Registration...Slight Changes in Photography Techniques Lead to More Effective Border Security
Facial recognition systems perform some very challenging tasks such as checking an individual’s photo against a database of known or suspected criminals. The task can become nearly impossible when the systems acquire poor facial images—a...Migration From Eastern Europe to the U.K. Falls to New Low
The number of Eastern European migrants coming to work in the UK has fallen to its lowest level since accession, according to statistics published by the Home Office today. The figures show that between April and June 2008 there were 40,000 applications...
