Nigeria passport

Rank, score and destinations reachable with the Nigeria passport — Passport Index ranking and visa verdict breakdown on Atlas.

The Nigeria passport ranks 185 worldwide, giving access to 43 destinations without a prior visa.

Nigeria ranks 166 in the worldwide openness ranking, and can be entered without a prior visa by 53 passports.

Passport rank
185 / 199
Visa-free travel to
43 destinations
Openness rank
166 / 199
Visa-free entry for
53 passports

Visa-free — 26

Barbados, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Dominica, Fiji, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kiribati, Liberia, Mali, Micronesia, Niger, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Togo, Vanuatu

Visa on arrival — 16

Bolivia, Burundi, Cambodia, Comoros, Djibouti, Iran, Lebanon, Madagascar, Maldives, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Palau, Samoa, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu

Electronic authorisation (ETA) — 1

Kenya

E-visa — 44

Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bhutan, Botswana, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Georgia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Libya, Malawi, Malaysia, Moldova, Oman, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, São Tomé and Príncipe, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, South Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Visa required — 111

Afghanistan, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Canada, Central African Republic, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Eritrea, Estonia, Eswatini, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Laos, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, North Korea, North Macedonia, Norway, Palestine, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Republic of the Congo, Romania, Russia, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vatican City, Venezuela, Yemen