THE MINISTER WHO FIXED THE QUEUE

THISDAYLIVE | 18-09-2026 12:19am |

The Ministry of Interior, under Minister Bunmi Tunji-Ojo, cleared a backlog of 204,332 passport applications in late 2023. The backlog had caused students to miss school resumption, patients to miss treatment abroad, and traders to miss business obligations. The clearance was completed within roughly three weeks. The article examines the ministry's performance against the standard of whether ordinary citizens' dealings with government become less humiliating.

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