Section 17: Production of travel document

(1)
Every passenger who arrives or departs Nigeria by any means at or from any recognised port, shall produce to an immigration officer landing or embarkation cards in such form as the Minister or Comptroller-General may specify, and shall satisfy the immigration officer that he is the holder of a valid travel document:
Provided that nothing in this subsection shall be construed as requiring a Nigerian to complete a disembarkation card.
(2) The Minister or the comptroller-General of Immigration may by order direct the owners or agents of ships and aircrafts, and other means of transportation to supply to passengers with such landing or embarkation cards.
(3)
Every member of the crew of a ship or aircraft who lands in or leaves Nigeria shall produce such evidence or travel document as an immigration officer may require.
(4) No person, whether in possession of a travel document or not, who is a prohibited immigrant, shall enter Nigeria without the consent of the Minister.
(5)
For the purposes of this section, the expression; "travel document", in the case of any member of the crew of a ship or aircraft, includes any card or other document in a form approved by or acceptable to the Comptroller-General of lmmigration.