The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has commended Mr. Olamide Tunji-Ojo, Nigeria's Consul-General in New York, for clearing the bottlenecks in the issuance of passports to Nigerian students in the United States.

The commendation was made by the Vice President, North America Diaspora, NANS, Comrade Remi Ojo, in a statement issued in New York on Monday.

Ojo said that the consul-general's intervention had brought "significant improvement" in the issuance of passports to Nigerian students in the US.