According to a recent study, Nigeria is the 90th-most accessible country to other countries in terms of visa-free travel.
IATA (International Air Transport Association) data was used exclusively and officially in the study that Henley & Partners presented on Tuesday.
Nigeria and South Sudan were rated 90th and only 46 sites were visa-free, respectively, according to the survey.
Nigeria came in at number five last on the list of African nations that provide visa-free travel, trailing only the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Eritrea, Sudan, and Libya, all of which are home to violently unrest.
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Seychelles is in the 24th position with access to 155 countries and was the highest-ranked African country.
Mauritius ranked 29th with access to 148 countries while South African nationals can visit 106 countries without a prior visa, holding down the 51st spot. Both countries were ranked second and third, respectively in the African continent.
Singapore topped the list, knocking off Japan for the first time in five years into third place.
Citizens of Singapore, according to the report, can visit 192 travel destinations out of 227 around the world visa-free.
Germany, Italy, and Spain all moved up into the 2nd place with visa-free access to 190 destinations, while Japanese passport holders alongside those from, Austria, Finland, France, Luxembourg, South Korea, and Sweden — all in third place – have access to189 destinations without a prior visa.
Both the United Kingdom and the United States jointly held first place on the index nearly 10 years ago in 2014 but have been on a downward trajectory ever since, now holding fourth and eighth places, respectively.
Afghanistan remains at the bottom of the index, with a visa-free access score of just 27 countries, followed by Iraq with 29, and Syria with 30 — the three weakest passports in the world.
