What people are looking for, what actually exists, and how to register without a portal.
If you have been searching for a trade test certificate portal, or a portal login, you have probably found nothing useful. That is not because you are searching badly.
As of September 2026 there is no public online portal where a candidate can register for a Nigerian trade test, check a result, or verify a certificate.
The trade test system is run by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment through its Skills Development and Certification Department. It operates through physical centres and paper records, not through a candidate facing website.
The searches fall into four groups, and each has a real answer even though none of them has a website.
Registration happens at an accredited centre, in person. You complete an application form there, submit your documents, and pay the examination fee at the centre or at a designated bank. There is no online form.
Results come from the centre where you sat the examination. Contact them directly. Most centres will tell you over the phone and ask you to collect the certificate in person.
This is the most common one, and it is covered in full on our page about how to verify a trade test certificate. The short version is that verification is manual, either through the Federal Ministry of Labour office at your state Secretariat or through the centre that examined you.
The practical answer is that the trade test has a hands on component. Somebody has to watch you work. That is the whole point of it, and it is why no online route exists or is likely to.
Because the demand is real and the supply is nothing, websites appear offering portal access, online registration or instant verification, usually for a fee.
We are not going to tell you that every such site is fraudulent, because some may be legitimate agents who simply handle the paperwork for you. What we can tell you is that no automated government portal sits behind them, so you are paying somebody to do what you could do by walking into a centre.
If a site offers to issue you a certificate without an examination, stop. A document that was never issued against a test will not be in the Ministry records, and it will fail the moment anybody checks.
ServHub Training is accredited by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment to conduct trade test examinations, and we examine on site. Our candidates register with us, train with us and sit the test with us, which removes the travelling and the chasing.
We do have an online application form on this site, and a status check page where our own candidates can follow their application. That is our system for our candidates. It is not a government portal, and we would rather say so plainly than let anybody assume otherwise.
💬 Ask Us About ThisNot as of September 2026. There is no public online portal for candidate registration, result checking or certificate verification. The system operates through accredited physical centres.
No. The trade test includes a practical component that has to be observed in person, so registration and examination both happen at an accredited centre.
Contact the centre where you sat the examination. They hold the candidate records and can confirm your result.
No automated government portal exists behind any of them. Some may be legitimate agents handling paperwork, but anybody offering a certificate without an examination is selling a forgery.
The Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, through its Skills Development and Certification Department.
ServHub Training is accredited by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment to conduct trade test examinations, and we examine on site at our Port Harcourt centre. We run 24 courses across construction, electrical, mechanical, craft and digital trades.
ServHub Training is operated by ServHub Technologies Limited, RC 9494742. Search it at search.cac.gov.ng. Walk into the centre at 127 Igwuruta Road, Atali, Port Harcourt any weekday and see the workshop before you pay anybody anything.
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Published 20 September 2026. Last reviewed 20 September 2026. Government processes change. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.