Sterling Bank partners FG on e-PASS

Sterling Bank Plc has partner the Federal Government along with a project contractor, Continental Transfer Technique for the collection and payment accounting for a project called ‘e-PASS. The project will commence on Wednesday September 22, 2015.

The e-PASS project is a scheme designed by the Federal Government to ensure that all Non-ECOWAS immigrants that visit Nigeria with a Tourist or Business Visa and intend to stay beyond an aggregate of 56 days in a year are made to pay a certain amount of money as advised by the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS.

With this deal, Sterling Bank said the fee can now be paid from the date of commencement of the scheme at the lender’s designated airport stations or branches. Already, the bank has designated its representatives to be stationed at the five International airports located in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kano and Enugu for this purpose.

The branches that will be involved in the e-PASS scheme in Lagos include the Airport Road, Ilupeju, Adeola Odeku, Allen Avenue and head office branch along Marina, Lagos, while branches at Sterling Boulevard, CBD, Mamman Kotangora Close, Area 3, Garki and Adetokunbo Ademola, Wuse will take part in Abuja. Others include Okpara Avenue, Enugu, Trans Amadi 1 in Port Harcourt, and Murtala Mohammed way in Kano.

Group Head, Strategy & Communications, Mr. Shina Atilola, explained that an aggregate stay beyond 56 days but not exceeding 90 days would attract a fee in the equivalent of USD200, while 91 days to 180 days will attract a fee equivalent to USD1,000.