{"question":{"passport":"GHA","destination":"NGA","entryDate":"2026-09-12"},"dateBasis":"reference-date","status":"allowed","headline":"Free movement","requirement":{"kind":"free_movement","message":"Free movement. No limit under this regime."},"stay":{"kind":"NO_LIMIT","phrasing":"Free movement. No limit under this regime."},"conditions":[],"caveat":null,"source":{"documentId":"nigeria-immigration-regulations-2017","url":"https://archive.gazettes.africa/archive/ng/2017/ng-government-gazette-supplement-dated-2017-03-01-no-25.pdf","passage":"(4) Pursuant to section 37 (13) of the Act. the provisions of these\n    Regulations relating to foreign nationals requiring visas, work ‘permits and\n    residence permits shall not apply to nationals of Member States of the Economic\n   Community of West African States who are exempted from requiring entry\n   visas, and are allowed to reside, work.and undertake commercial and industrial\n   activities within Nigeria; provided that such citizens shall register with the\n   Service ","explanation":"Regulation 11(4) of the Immigration Regulations 2017 disapplies the visa, work-permit and residence-permit provisions to nationals of ECOWAS member states who are exempted from requiring entry visas, and allows them to reside, work and undertake commercial and industrial activities in Nigeria. That is a right of residence that is not bounded by a ninety-day visit, so it is recorded as a separate entitlement from the visit right in the Protocol.","publisher":"Federal Republic of Nigeria … Immigration Regulations, 2017."},"checkedAt":"2026-08-30","snapshotAsOf":"2026-09-10","dataVersion":"4f66864a7d4f8a08b6c8c7e446d7f16addcd9303","upcomingChange":null,"alternatives":[{"headline":"Visa-free, 90 days","conditions":[{"kind":"ENTRY_REQUIREMENT","text":"A citizen of the Community entering another Member State must hold a valid travel document and an international health certificate; admission may be refused to a Community citizen who comes within the category of inadmissible immigrants under Nigerian law."},{"kind":"JOURNEY_LIMIT","text":"A stay beyond ninety days requires permission for an extension from the appropriate authority; Regulation 6(1) caps every visitor's visiting permit at ninety days."},{"kind":"OTHER","text":"Article 3 of the Protocol speaks of a 'citizen of the Community', defined in Article 1 as a citizen of any Member State of the Economic Community of West African States. The Nigeria Immigration Service's own Nigeria Visa Policy 2020 lists the ECOWAS states whose citizens do not require a visa to enter Nigeria as Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote D'Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo."}],"source":{"documentId":"nigeria-visa-policy-2020-ngembassy","url":"https://ngembassy.info/page/visa-policy-2020","passage":"F1A - ECOWAS Member States\n\n With regard to the ECOWAS/CEDEAO Free Movement Protocol, citizens of the fellow 15 Economic Community of West African States do not require a visa to enter Nigeria. This policy applies to travelers from Benin Republic , Burkina Faso , Cape Verde , Ivory Coast , Gambia , Ghana , Guinea , Guinea Bissau , Liberia , Mali , Niger Republic , Senegal , \n…\nAll visas issued under the Visa Free Policy are Single Entry for maximum duration of 90 days.","explanation":"The F1A class of the Nigeria Visa Policy as published on the ngEmbassy portal names the fourteen other ECOWAS member states whose citizens do not require a visa to enter Nigeria, and the same policy fixes the visa-free duration at a maximum of 90 days. The underlying legal right is the ECOWAS Protocol A/P.1/5/79, whose Article 3(2) grants a Community citizen entering another Member State visa-free entry for up to ninety days; the official Nigeria Visa Policy 2020 PDF (held) confirms the same fourteen-state list on page 10. ngEmbassy's page is a clean quotation of the policy classes; the authority's own PDF is a scanned document whose F1A page alone carries a text layer.","publisher":"The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has announced preparedness to commence the new visa policy announced by the President in February 2020."}}],"scope":{"covers":["recorded entry requirement","recorded stay allowance"],"notEstablished":["personal admission decision","work permission","residence rights","tax position","individual eligibility for every condition"],"passportType":"ordinary"}}