The quota is the gate, and 4.3 per cent is not what it looks like
FreeThis guide is written for two readers at once: someone moving to Nigeria to work, usually into oil and gas, telecoms, banking or a development agency, and a Nigerian looking for work at home in a market whose official unemployment rate is 4.3 per cent and where almost nobody believes that number.
Those two people need different things, so this guide says which is which as it goes. If you are coming in, the thing that decides whether you can work at all is not your visa. It is the Expatriate Quota your employer holds from the Ministry of Interior. If you are Nigerian, the rules that decide your take home pay changed more between 2024 and 2026 than in the twenty years before, and most of that change landed on 1 January 2026.
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Permits, the levy, and what it actually costs
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