Nigerian Students Studying Abroad, Travelers To Pay N40,000 For Police Character Certificate

Nigerians journeying abroad, including students are as of now to pay N40,000 for Police Character Certificate (PCC), generally called Police Clearance Certificate.

This followed one more request from the Nigeria Police focal administration evidently given on July 22, 2023, planning the addition of the cost for PCC from N5,000 to N40,000.

Before this official trip, the certified expense was known as it could go reach from as low as N5,000 to as high as N100,000, dependent upon the cop one procedures or the individual referencing for it.

Messages sent off Force PRO, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, searching for confirmation and purposes behind the addition were not answered as at press time.

The PCC is a report given by the Nigeria Police to guarantee that an individual doesn’t have criminal record, criminal conviction or is endeavoring to evade prosecution for bad behaviors completed in the country.

The file is by and large searched for by individuals, generally teenagers, leaving the country to extra their assessments or to take up work, but a couple of relationship in Nigeria sometimes request explicit individuals to give the PCC.