The Henley Passport Index has revealed that the Nigerian passport can cover about 45 visa-free countries enabled in 2024.
HPI made this disclosure while revealing the most powerful passports in the country on its website on Thursday.
HPI is a global passport-ranking website with an original, authoritative ranking of all the world’s passports according to the number of destinations their holders can access without a prior visa.
Their index is usually based on exclusive data from the International Air Transport Association, the largest, most accurate travel information database and enhanced by Henley and Partners’ research team.
The passport ranking website on Thursday listed Nigeria as 95th out of the 104 countries with the most powerful passports.
The website pointed out that Nigeria is behind Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Morroco, Benin Republic and Namibia which are at number 76th, 83rd, 67th, 65th, 71st, 79th and 65th respectively.
Here is the list of 45 visa-free countries Nigerians can travel with their country’s passports.
1. Barbados,
2. Benin
3. Burkina
4. Faso
5. Burundi
6. Cambodia
7. Cameroon
8. Cape Verde Islands
9. Chad
10. Comoro Islands
11. Cook Islands
12. Cote d’Ivoire
13. Djibouti
14. Dominican Republic
15. Fiji
16. Ghana
17. Guinea
18. Guinea-Bissau
19. Haiti.
20. Iran
21. Kenya
22. Kiribati
23. Lebanon
24. Liberia
25. Madagascar
26. Maldives
27. Mali
28. Mauritiana
29. Mauritius
30. Micronesia
31. Montserrat
32. Mozambique
33. Niger
34. Niue
35. Palau Islands
36. Rwanda,
37. Samoa
38. Senegal
39. Sierra Leone
40. Somalia
41. St. Kitts and Nevis
42. The Gambia
43. Timor-Leste
44. Togo
45. Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
SOURCE:PUNCH