Immigration consultants Henley & Partners has released its Passport Index for the year of 2019, showing which global passports are the strongest in the world, in terms of the access they grant to other countries without the need for a visa.
According to the Index, The Japanese passport is the most powerful passport in the world with citizens enjoying visa-free/visa-on-arrival access to 190 destinations.
Dr. Christian H. Kälin, group chairman of Henley & Partners, said the index is the most robust in the world, surveying a total of 199 different passports against 227 different travel destinations, including countries, territories and micro-states.
Nigeria ranks 91st overall, improving its position with visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 47 countries – up from 98 in 2018, where the passport ranked 94th.
These are the countries Nigerian passport holders can travel to without a visa:
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Cape Verde Islands
Chad
Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Liberia
Mali
Niger
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Togo
Cook Islands
Fiji
Micronesia
Niue
Palau Islands
Vanuatu
Barbados
Dominica
Haiti
Montserrat
St. Kitts and Nevis
Visa On Arrival
Samoa
Tuvalu
Bolivia
Iran
Lebanon
Uganda
Cambodia
Maldives
Seychelles
Timor-Leste
Madagascar
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mozambique
Kenya
Rwanda
Djibouti
Somalia
Tanzania
Benin
