Nigeria entry requirements, by passport
Nigeria visa requirements at a glance: 12 of the 81 passports VisaRadar tracks can enter Nigeria without arranging a visa beforehand — visa-free, with a visa on arrival, or with an electronic travel authorization. The other 69 must obtain a visa before they travel.
Which passport do you hold?
We'll take you straight to the entry requirements for Nigeria for your nationality.
What we've verified for Nigeria
Beyond the yes/no matrix, we've checked these against an official primary source (last checked 2026-08-22). The specifics depend on your nationality — open your passport's row in the table for the detail that applies to you.
- Standard short-stay visa fee: USD 79.00
- Typical processing time
- Required documents (3)
- Required vaccinations
- Health-insurance rules
- Customs limits (cash, alcohol, tobacco)
- Overstay penalties
- Airport transit rules
Sources: immigration.gov.ng (Nigeria Immigration Service — official Tourism Visa F5A page: 90-day validity, 30-day single-entry stay; notice of the mandatory e-Landing/Exit Card system since 1 May 2025 and the end of visa-on-arrival since 4 August 2025); evisa.immigration.gov.ng (official e-Visa portal, explicit warning about unauthorized third parties collecting the fee; doesn't display pricing without starting an application, so the USD 79 base fee was cross-checked via secondary sources — nigerianembassyinfo.com, go-naija.com — explicitly discarding the nigeria-evisa.com figure since it bundles a processing-agency commission); customs.gov.ng (Nigeria Customs Service — "Passenger's Concessions" page, blocked for automated fetch with HTTP 403, alcohol/tobacco/cash allowances cross-checked via visahq.com and nigeria-consulate.org.hk, which attribute them to the official site); Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022 (USD 10,000 declaration threshold); premiumtimesng.com, nairametrics.com, and guardian.ng (official USD 15/day overstay fine since 1 September 2025, announced by the NIS and cited by Nigerian press with the spokesperson's name and title) (checked 22 August 2026).
Nigeria sets its entry regime by nationality, with a fully digital e-Visa system covering 13 different categories, from tourism to transit, with a decision in about 48 hours. The Nigeria Immigration Service warns that no third parties are authorized to collect the e-Visa fee — it must only be processed at evisa.immigration.gov.ng.
This table summarizes the exact entry mechanism for every passport we track — the difference between entering visa-free, with an electronic authorization, with an e-Visa, or with a traditional visa is explained in visa, e-Visa, and electronic authorization: what's the difference. How we verify every row before publishing it is on methodology.
Base entry rules refreshed 2026-09-17. Published: .
| Passport | Requirement | Max. stay |
|---|---|---|
| Visa-free | ||
| Algeria | Visa on arrival | — |
| Cape Verde | Visa-free | — |
| Egypt | Visa on arrival | — |
| Equatorial Guinea | Visa on arrival | — |
| Gambia | Visa-free | — |
| Ghana | Visa-free | — |
| Kenya | Visa on arrival | — |
| Mali | Visa-free | — |
| Morocco | Visa on arrival | — |
| Senegal | Visa-free | — |
| South Africa | Visa on arrival | — |
| Tunisia | Visa on arrival | — |
| Visa required | ||
| Argentina | e-Visa | — |
| Australia | e-Visa | — |
| Austria | e-Visa | — |
| Bangladesh | e-Visa | — |
| Belgium | e-Visa | — |
| Bolivia | e-Visa | — |
| Brazil | e-Visa | — |
| Bulgaria | e-Visa | — |
| Canada | e-Visa | — |
| Chile | e-Visa | — |
| China | e-Visa | — |
| Colombia | e-Visa | — |
| Costa Rica | e-Visa | — |
| Croatia | e-Visa | — |
| Cuba | e-Visa | — |
| Czech Republic | e-Visa | — |
| Denmark | e-Visa | — |
| Dominican Republic | e-Visa | — |
| Ecuador | e-Visa | — |
| El Salvador | e-Visa | — |
| Finland | e-Visa | — |
| France | e-Visa | — |
| Georgia | e-Visa | — |
| Germany | e-Visa | — |
| Greece | e-Visa | — |
| Guatemala | e-Visa | — |
| Honduras | e-Visa | — |
| Hungary | e-Visa | — |
| Iceland | e-Visa | — |
| India | e-Visa | — |
| Indonesia | e-Visa | — |
| Ireland | e-Visa | — |
| Israel | e-Visa | — |
| Italy | e-Visa | — |
| Japan | e-Visa | — |
| Jordan | e-Visa | — |
| Malaysia | e-Visa | — |
| Malta | e-Visa | — |
| Mexico | e-Visa | — |
| Moldova | e-Visa | — |
| Netherlands | e-Visa | — |
| New Zealand | e-Visa | — |
| Nicaragua | e-Visa | — |
| Norway | e-Visa | — |
| Pakistan | e-Visa | — |
| Panama | e-Visa | — |
| Paraguay | e-Visa | — |
| Peru | e-Visa | — |
| Philippines | e-Visa | — |
| Poland | e-Visa | — |
| Portugal | e-Visa | — |
| Romania | e-Visa | — |
| Russia | e-Visa | — |
| Saudi Arabia | e-Visa | — |
| Singapore | e-Visa | — |
| South Korea | e-Visa | — |
| Spain | e-Visa | — |
| Sri Lanka | e-Visa | — |
| Sweden | e-Visa | — |
| Switzerland | e-Visa | — |
| Thailand | e-Visa | — |
| Turkey | e-Visa | — |
| Ukraine | e-Visa | — |
| United Arab Emirates | e-Visa | — |
| United Kingdom | e-Visa | — |
| United States | e-Visa | — |
| Uruguay | e-Visa | — |
| Venezuela | e-Visa | — |
| Vietnam | e-Visa | — |
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Do you need a different visa for Lagos, Abuja, or Port Harcourt?
No. Nigeria sets the requirements, so entering through Lagos asks for the same as entering through Abuja or Port Harcourt. If you're arriving overland or through a small border post, check that separately: some countries apply their own rules to specific crossings.
What does change is where you file the application when a visa is needed, and that depends on the country you live in rather than the city you're travelling to.
What draws travelers to Nigeria
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and a cultural giant — the birthplace of Afrobeats and Nollywood — but it is not a conventional tourist destination today. Lagos, the megacity, concentrates the music scene, the galleries and the beaches of Victoria Island. The main World Heritage site is the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove, in the Yoruba south-west, a sanctuary of the goddess Osun with a huge festival in early August; the other is the Sukur cultural landscape. Nigeria has 2 UNESCO World Heritage sites. Important note: in 2026 the U.S. State Department places Nigeria at Level 3 ("Reconsider Travel") overall, with numerous states at Level 4 ("Do Not Travel") for terrorism, kidnapping and crime, mostly in the north and the south-east; the U.S. Embassy drew down staff in April 2026. Travel requires security advice and a local operator.
Sources for this section: tourism.gov.ng (Nigeria Federal Ministry of Tourism); UNESCO World Heritage List (whc.unesco.org, 2 sites in Nigeria); U.S. Department of State travel advisory (travel.state.gov, Level 3) and UK FCDO travel advice. Accessed 31 August 2026.
Things to see and do in Nigeria
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Where can Nigeria passport holders travel visa-free? →
Informational only. Always verify requirements with the official embassy or consulate before you travel.