Top 20 Travel Influencers in Nigeria on Instagram (Aug 2026)

We found 49 travel influencers in Nigeria on Instagram. These creators use "travel" in their Instagram bio and have audiences concentrated in Nigeria. Here are the top 20, ranked on engagement rate, audience quality and reach, not follower count alone.

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Ranked by engagement rate, audience quality and reach

Updated August 1, 2026

  1. Followers241K
    Engagement rate4.56%At page median
    Suspicious followers37.4%High
    Average reel plays39.3KPer video post

    Audience gender

    Audience location

    Nigeria75%
    Ghana4.0%
    Canada3.3%
    United Kingdom3.2%

    Top posts

    Avg likes: 11.0K. Avg comments: 73. Audience credibility: 79%.

  2. 2Photographer In Coventry/Birmingham/London/Abuja Instagram profile photo

    Photographer In Coventry/Birmingham/London/Abuja

    @scenery_studios_

    Travel Photographer, Videographer & Content Creator 🥘Food Influencer 📸Presets & Online Course Available 👨‍🍳DM for an experience @sceneryevents

    Mid-tierNigeria
    Followers142K
    Engagement rate2.91%0.7x page median
    Suspicious followers18.0%Moderate
    Average reel plays10.2KPer video post

    Engagement rate benchmark

    Median

    Photographer In Coventry/Birmingham/London/Abuja's engagement rate benchmarked against this niche's real distribution.

    Audience location

    Nigeria85%
    United Kingdom4.5%
    United States2.1%
    Ghana1.5%
    United Arab Emirates0.6%

    Audience gender

  3. Followers118K
    Engagement rate6.86%1.7x page median
    Suspicious followersNot measured
    Average reel plays143KPer video post

    Audience gender

    Audience location

    Nigeria71%
    United Kingdom5.1%
    Canada4.2%
    South Africa1.7%

    Top posts

    Avg likes: 8.1K. Avg comments: 447. Audience credibility: 86%.

  4. Followers118K
    Engagement rate12.58%3.1x page median
    Suspicious followers37.0%High
    Average reel plays56.4KPer video post

    Audience gender

    Audience location

    Nigeria52%
    Ghana9.7%
    South Africa9.5%
    Tanzania5.6%
    Kenya4.2%

    Top posts

    Avg likes: 14.8K. Avg comments: 106. Audience credibility: 76%.

  5. 5Iam_risky Instagram profile photo

    Iam_risky

    @iam_risky

    🍲 Turning Lagos food & lifestyle into viral stories 🎬 Food Vlogs • Travel ⚠️ Lagos Chief Enjoyment Officer 🌴😂 ✉️ collabwithriskyy@gmail.com

    Mid-tierNigeria
    Followers101K
    Engagement rate2.30%0.6x page median
    Suspicious followers20.1%Elevated
    Average reel plays37.1KPer video post

    Engagement rate benchmark

    Median

    Iam_risky's engagement rate benchmarked against this niche's real distribution.

    Audience location

    Nigeria81%
    United States4.2%
    United Kingdom2.3%
    Ghana2.2%
    United Arab Emirates1.2%

    Audience gender

  6. Followers60.8K
    Engagement rate2.92%0.7x page median
    Suspicious followers43.7%High
    Average reel plays28.3KPer video post

    Audience gender

    Audience location

    Nigeria79%
    United Kingdom4.2%
    Canada2.0%
    United Arab Emirates1.2%

    Top posts

    Avg likes: 1.8K. Avg comments: 111. Audience credibility: 81%.

  7. Followers41.7K
    Engagement rate18.49%4.6x page median
    Suspicious followers41.9%High
    Average reel plays95.5KPer video post

    Audience gender

    Audience location

    Nigeria67%
    United Kingdom3.2%
    Canada2.0%
    United Arab Emirates1.9%

    Top posts

    Avg likes: 7.7K. Avg comments: 414. Audience credibility: 82%.

  8. Followers28.2K
    Engagement rate5.52%1.4x page median
    Suspicious followers40.5%High
    Average reel plays9.7KPer video post

    Audience gender

    Audience location

    Nigeria86%
    Ghana1.6%
    United Arab Emirates1.1%
    Senegal1.0%

    Top posts

    Avg likes: 1.6K. Avg comments: 45. Audience credibility: 76%.

  9. Followers27.0K
    Engagement rate13.13%3.3x page median
    Suspicious followers40.9%High
    Average reel plays44.6KPer video post

    Audience gender

    Audience location

    Nigeria83%
    United Kingdom3.9%
    United Arab Emirates1.2%
    Canada1.1%

    Top posts

    Avg likes: 3.5K. Avg comments: 105. Audience credibility: 82%.

  10. Followers23.3K
    Engagement rate4.36%At page median
    Suspicious followers43.9%High
    Average reel plays1.9KPer video post

    Audience gender

    Audience location

    Nigeria77%
    South Africa6.2%
    Ghana5.5%
    United Kingdom3.0%
    Kenya2.2%

    Top posts

    Avg likes: 1.0K. Avg comments: 32. Audience credibility: 81%.

  11. Followers19.8K
    Engagement rate3.57%At page median
    Suspicious followers41.7%High
    Average reel plays11.6KPer video post

    Audience gender

    Audience location

    Nigeria90%
    Ghana1.0%
    United Arab Emirates0.8%
    United Kingdom0.6%

    Top posts

    Avg likes: 709. Avg comments: 15. Audience credibility: 77%.

  12. Followers17.2K
    Engagement rate58.89%Outlier, verify before using
    Suspicious followers38.5%High
    Average reel plays2.6KPer video post

    Audience gender

    Audience location

    Nigeria88%
    India1.1%
    Saudi Arabia0.9%
    Tanzania0.8%

    Top posts

    Avg likes: 10.1K. Avg comments: 3. Audience credibility: 76%.

  13. 16Ayo | Makeup Artist in London 🇬🇧 Instagram profile photo

    Ayo | Makeup Artist in London 🇬🇧

    @glamby_olly

    Bridal Makeup artist London🇬🇧 | Midlands | International 🌍 Available to travel 2025/2026 Bridal bookings

    MicroUnited Kingdom
    Followers17.2K
    Engagement rate5.65%1.4x page median
    Suspicious followers23.3%Elevated
    Average reel plays5.5KPer video post

    Engagement rate benchmark

    Median

    Ayo | Makeup Artist in London 🇬🇧's engagement rate benchmarked against this niche's real distribution.

    Audience location

    Nigeria87%
    United Kingdom3.0%
    United States2.5%
    Ghana1.2%
    Canada0.7%

    Audience gender

  14. Followers16.9K
    Engagement rate2.85%0.7x page median
    Suspicious followers39.8%High
    Average reel plays4.4KPer video post

    Audience gender

    Audience location

    Nigeria86%
    Ghana0.9%
    Sudan0.9%

    Top posts

    Avg likes: 481. Avg comments: 3. Audience credibility: 79%.

  15. Followers16.5K
    Engagement rate3.69%At page median
    Suspicious followers37.7%High
    Average reel plays8.4KPer video post

    Audience gender

    Audience location

    Nigeria61%
    Canada23%
    United Kingdom2.5%
    Saudi Arabia0.7%

    Top posts

    Avg likes: 608. Avg comments: 26. Audience credibility: 81%.

  16. Followers16.4K
    Engagement rate3.36%0.8x page median
    Suspicious followers42.0%High
    Average reel plays3.7KPer video post

    Audience gender

    Audience location

    Nigeria83%
    United Kingdom3.3%
    Canada1.7%
    Ghana1.1%

    Top posts

    Avg likes: 552. Avg comments: 19. Audience credibility: 82%.

  17. Followers15.5K
    Engagement rate4.47%At page median
    Suspicious followers44.8%High
    Average reel plays11.4KPer video post

    Audience gender

    Audience location

    Nigeria85%
    United Kingdom4.0%
    Ghana1.5%
    Canada1.0%

    Top posts

    Avg likes: 693. Avg comments: 14. Audience credibility: 79%.

Benchmarks

Top travel influencers in Nigeria: engagement and audience benchmarks

The median and ranges across this ranking, so you can tell a genuinely strong travel creator from an average one.

49creators indexed26.1Kmedian followers4.03%median engagement36.9%avg suspicious followers

The top travel influencers in Nigeria run a median engagement rate of 4.03% and average 36.9% suspicious followers. Treat 4.03% as the bar a strong travel creator in Nigeria should clear; below it, you are paying for reach, not attention.

The best travel influencers in Nigeria here span 15 nano or micro and 0 macro accounts, covering both cost-efficient gifting and broad-reach launches. Audiences concentrate in Nigeria (85%), skewing female at 55%.

How this list is built. These are Instagram creators who describe themselves using terms like travel, travel blogger, wanderlust in their own bio and whose audience is concentrated in Nigeria. 49 accounts matched. We rank them on a blend of engagement rate, suspicious-follower share and reach, then publish the top 20. Figures are a snapshot taken on Aug 2026 and are frozen between refreshes, so the order you see is the order everyone sees.

Where their audiences are

Nigeria85%

Follower tiers in this ranking

Nanounder 10K
0
Micro10K to 100K
15
Mid-tier100K to 500K
5
Macro500K+
0

Combined audience gender

FAQ

Travel influencers in Nigeria: common questions

How do I find travel influencers in Nigeria?

Three approaches work. You can search local hashtags and location tags manually, which is free but slow and biased toward whoever posts most. You can ask your existing customers who they follow. Or you can filter an index: Leewou holds 49 travel influencers in Nigeria and lets you narrow by follower range, engagement rate, audience country and suspicious-follower share in one query. The 20 on this page are the top of that set, and the rest are in the app.

Who are the top travel influencers in Nigeria right now?

On this ranking, Eddy | Travel Inspiration 🇨🇦 (@eddyosaman), Photographer In Coventry/Birmingham/London/Abuja (@scenery_studios_), Olumuyiwa Shoyombo (@mr.1805). The ordering blends engagement rate, audience quality and reach rather than follower count alone, which is why a smaller account can outrank a larger one. Data was last refreshed in Aug 2026.

What counts as a good engagement rate for travel creators?

Use the set you are actually buying from as the benchmark, not a global average. Across these travel influencers in Nigeria, the median engagement rate is 4.03% at a median of 26.1K followers. Anything meaningfully above that median is doing better than its peers at the same size; anything well below is worth a second look before you pay for reach.

Are these follower counts real?

Not entirely, and that is true of every Instagram list. Across this group, an average of 36.9% of followers show signs of being fake or inactive. We publish that figure on every card instead of hiding it, so you can discount reach estimates before you negotiate. Anything above 30% is worth auditing manually before you commit budget.

Can I see contact details and full audience data for these creators?

Not on this page: it is a public preview. Inside Leewou you get the full audience breakdown (age, gender, country, city, interests, credibility), historical growth, content performance and email unlocks, plus the ability to save creators to shared lists and monitor their campaign posts. The trial runs 14 days with no card required.

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