If you have your national passport as a Nigerian and you’re wondering if there are free countries you can travel to without Visa, wonder no more. There are Nigeria Visa-free countries you can travel to for a relatively short period of time. However, some of these Nigeria Visa-free countries may grant you a Visa on Arrival for a period of time. Thus, you’ll need to know the Nigeria Visa requirement for the country you hope to travel freely to.

Traveling for study may require you to acquire a student Visa as these Nigerian Visa-free countries offer a short period of stay.

However, you may want to satisfy your adventure hunger without incurring unnecessary Visa costs. Following our comprehensive list will just help you achieve that.

Currently, Nigerian citizens have Visa-free or Visa on arrival access to only 45 countries. The majority of these countries are in the Africa continent.

In this post, we will share with you the list of these Nigeria Visa-free countries. Also, we categorized these countries by continent for ease of understanding and navigation.

List of Visa-free Countries for Nigerians

Henley Passport Index ranks the Nigerian passport 98th in terms of travel freedom. This is because we can access only  45 countries without Visa or through Visa on arrival. In the nearest future, Nigeria may rank better as the list is ever-changing.

With the introduction of E-Visas, you can access more countries free through Visa on arrival. This is a progressive trend which some countries in Africa like Gabon have embraced, only they are yet to give Visa on arrival.

Having said that here are the 45 countries you can access visa-free with your Nigerian passport.

Barbados Haiti Saint Kitts and Nevis
Benin Republic Iran Samoa
Burkina Faso Kenya Senegal
Cambodia Liberia Seychelles
Cameroon Madagascar Sierra Leone
Cape Verde Maldives Somalia
Chad Mali Somaliland
Comoros Mauritania South Ossetia
Cote d’Ivoire Mauritius The Gambia
Dominica Micronesia Timor Leste
Ethiopia Mozambique Togo
Fiji Island Niger Republic Transnistria
Ghana Palau Tuvalu
Guinea Palestine Uganda
Guinea-Bissau Rwanda Vanuatu

We will thus go ahead to describe these countries based on their continents and type of visa-free access – absolutely free or Visa on arrival.

Also, we will explain the Visa requirements for each of these countries you can visit without Visa with your Nigeria passport.

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