Nigeria is currently number six in Africa, a notable improvement in the continent’s visa openness index that shows how easy it is to get a visa from Nigeria.
Visa openness is the ease with which travelers can get authorization to go to and enter a country, pending final determination by the destination immigration officers, according to new reports from the African Development Bank (AfDB) and other sources.
This Day reported that this suggests that the easier it is for a traveler to visit a country, the more visa-open that country is.
Last year, the AfDB released its Africa Visa Openness Index, noting that the continent had made strides in granting visas to facilitate cross-border travel, increase trade, investment, and regional integration.
The new diplomatic behavior has been adopted by many nations in the region, including Nigeria, and visa issuing is becoming more liberal.
Nigeria was ranked sixth on the African Development Bank’s 2024 AfDB AVOI (Africa Visa Open Index), according to Ambassador Ikechi Uko, a travel specialist and the organizer of the Akwaaba African Travel Market.
He called the development “massive” and noted that Nigeria has made significant strides in being the sixth most open nation in Africa out of 54.
TimesNow.com.ng reported that a recent analysis revealed that the Nigerian passport is among the 20 least valuable in 2024.
The Nigerian passport scores among the lowest 20 for 2024, a pattern that has continued for 10 years, according to data from the Henley Passport Index, which rates all passports in the world based on the number of destinations their holders can enter without a previous visa.
International Air Transport Association (IATA) statistics and other open-source web data are the sources of information used by Henley and Partners to publish the historical data index.
Source: TimesNow.com.ng
