Lagos, Nigeria 🇳🇬

Free PLC training in Lagos

Engineers and technicians in Lagos can learn PLC programming, SCADA, drives and instrumentation free, online and at their own pace, with the courses below chosen for the city's oil refining and petrochemicals, fertiliser, food, consumer goods and chemicals. The optional certificate is US$4.99 (≈ NGN 7,900) for a beginner course.

Why automation skills matter in Lagos

Lagos combines Africa's largest single-train refinery and a urea and polypropylene complex at Lekki with food, chemicals and consumer-goods plants in the Lagos Free Zone, all of which run on process control, PLCs and drives. Three seaports and nearby zones such as the Ogun-Guangdong Free Trade Zone add further manufacturing and logistics sites.

Oil refining and petrochemicals

Dangote Petroleum Refinery, described by its owner as the world's largest single-train refinery, operates in Ibeju-Lekki alongside Dangote's polypropylene petrochemical complex.

Fertiliser

The Dangote Fertiliser Complex, a granulated urea plant, sits in the same Dangote Industries Free Zone at Lekki.

Food, consumer goods and chemicals

Lagos Free Zone tenants include Kellogg's, Dano Milk, Colgate, BASF, ADM and Tata International.

Ports and logistics

Lagos has Apapa Port, Tin Can Island Port and the Lekki Deep Sea Port, which began commercial operations in April 2023.

Shipbuilding and repair

Nigerdock, one of three major shipyards in Lagos, is described as West Africa's largest.

Industrial zones in and around Lagos

Dangote Industries Free Zone (Ibeju-Lekki)
Houses the Dangote refinery, fertiliser and petrochemical complexes next to Lekki Deep Sea Port; regulated by the Oil and Gas Free Zones Authority.
Lagos Free Zone
Nigeria's first private free zone, promoted by Singapore-based Tolaram and integrated with Lekki Deep Sea Port.
Ogun-Guangdong Free Trade Zone (Igbesa)
Chinese-Ogun State industrial zone in neighbouring Ogun State; manufacturing includes ceramics, furniture, electronics assembly, car batteries and tyres.

Which PLCs you are likely to meet

General regional pattern: Schneider Electric sells its Modicon PLCs (e.g. Modicon M221) and Altivar drives in Nigeria through a Nigeria country site.

Free courses for Lagos

PLC programming · Beginner · Free

Siemens TIA Portal

Instrumentation · Beginner · Free

Industrial Instrumentation and Process Control

DCS · Intermediate · Free

Emerson DeltaV DCS

Safety · Advanced · Free

Safety Instrumented Systems and SIL to IEC 61511

Process control · Intermediate · Free

PID Control for PLC Engineers

Industrial networks · Intermediate · Free

Industrial Communication: Serial, Fieldbus, Ethernet, Modbus, PROFINET and OPC UA

All free courses

The certificate

Beginner US$4.99 (≈ NGN 7,900), a one-off fee. Your bank handles any currency conversion. Issued when you pass the course's final assessment, with a code anyone can verify.

How the certificate works

Useful local bodies

For registration and recognised qualifications in Nigeria. EDWartens is not affiliated with them.

Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN)
Statutory regulator of engineering practice: registers engineers, technologists and technicians and accredits engineering programmes.
Industrial Training Fund (ITF)
Federal skills and industrial training agency; runs SIWES, the work-experience scheme for university and polytechnic students.

Questions from Lagos

Is there free PLC training in Lagos?

Yes, online. Every EDWartens course is free to learn in full from Lagos: video lessons, notes, practice and a final assessment, in English, at your own pace. They run in the vendors' free or trial software with simulators, so you need a computer, not a PLC.

How much is the certificate?

The certificate is optional. For a beginner course it is US$4.99 (about NGN 7,900), a one-off fee; intermediate and advanced courses cost a little more. Learning stays free whether or not you buy it.

Which PLC should I learn first in Lagos?

Start with Siemens TIA Portal. It matches what plants in the region commonly run; the other courses on this page follow Lagos's main industries.

Is the certificate recognised by employers in Lagos?

It is an EDWartens Certificate of Completion with a public verification code, not a vendor, university or government qualification. Employers can check it online; many will also want to see a project you built.

Also in Nigeria: Abuja, Port Harcourt

Sources

Local facts checked 26 September 2026. Company and plant names are their owners' and are mentioned for context only.