Free Business Courses in Nigeria
Every Business course on Skillnaija is free, self-paced, and written for a Nigerian context. Each one ends with a hands-on project that is graded — pass it and you earn a certificate you can verify and share.
45 free courses
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Product Management
Strategy, roadmaps, leadership.
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Virtual Assistant
Support businesses remotely and get paid.
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Travel & Tour Consultant
Book trips and run a travel business.
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Sales Professional
Sell with confidence and close deals.
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Teaching & Tutoring
Teach effectively and run a tutoring business.
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Small Business Accounting
Know if you are truly making profit, and keep books that earn trust.
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Import & Export Business
Buy from China, sell in Nigeria, and ship Nigerian goods abroad — the clean, profitable way.
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Freelancing from Nigeria
Earn in dollars from your room in Lagos — win real freelance clients abroad.
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Bookkeeping for Small Businesses
Know exactly where your money goes so 'plenty sales, no profit' stops happening to you.
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Export Readiness for Nigerian MSMEs
Turn Nigerian goods into dollar earnings — export the right product, the right way.
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HR Assistant Training
Become the person every Nigerian office needs — run hiring, onboarding, records and payroll support.
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Project Management for Beginners
Plan, run and deliver real projects — and turn it into a paying career.
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Customer Support Specialist Training
Turn 'How may I help you?' into a remote skill that pays in naira and dollars.
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Real Estate Assistant Training
Become the agent's right hand — list, market, vet docs, and earn from rent and sales
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Business Plan & Grant Writing
Turn your business idea into a plan funders fund — and grants you actually win.
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Start a Small Business in Nigeria
Go from idea to your first paying customer — and build a business that survives Nigeria.
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Fraud Prevention for Small Businesses
Stop fraud emptying your business — staff theft, fake alerts and the controls that block them.
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How to Get Your First Remote Job
Land a real remote job from Nigeria — paid in dollars, working for a global team.
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Client Acquisition Bootcamp
Land paying clients every month — for any freelance or service hustle in Nigeria.
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Portfolio Building for Beginners
Win paid work with no experience — build a portfolio that proves you can do the job.
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Business English & Professional Communication
Clear, confident professional English — the skill that wins remote jobs and better pay.
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Small Business & Sole Trader Tax (Nigeria 2026)
Know which box your business is in — and pay exactly what the 2026 law asks for, not a naira more.
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Inverter Sales in the Nigerian Market
NEPA's failure is one of Nigeria's biggest business openings — learn to sell inverter systems honestly, size them correctly, and let after-sales build your name.
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Solar Panel Sales in Nigeria
Learn to sell solar the honest way — read a customer's generator pain, spec the right system, and quote like a professional.
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Digital Products: Create & Sell
Make something once — a guide, a template, a mini-course — and sell it again and again without restocking.
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Advanced Sales: Own Your Market
Pick one market, learn its language, and become the seller every buyer there calls first.
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CAC Business Registration Class
Register your business with CAC yourself — pick the right structure, pay the right fees, and never miss the filings that come after the certificate.
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Event Planning & Management
Turn "just something small" into a real budget, a vetted vendor bench, and an event that actually starts on time.
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IELTS Preparation
Know exactly what each of the four papers wants — so you don't pay a six-figure test fee twice.
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Remote Work Readiness: Keeping the Job You Just Landed
Internet, power and discipline that hold — so the remote role you land is the role you keep.
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Structured Problem-Solving for Nigerian Business
Turn a client's complaint into a question you can answer — and an answer they can act on.
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Analytics & Modelling for Consultants
Build a model that ties, stress it until it breaks, and say exactly where the answer flips.
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Executive Communication & Client Management
Move a busy, sceptical, senior room to a decision — and keep the client after the engagement ends.
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Consulting Engagement Delivery
Scope it, price it, protect it, land it — and get paid, in Nigeria, on time.
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Building a Consulting Practice
Position it, prove it, pipe it, price it — the practice that sells the craft the sequence taught.
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Field & Outside Sales
Work a territory, open cold doors, and close honestly — the craft behind Nigeria's most-hired job.
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Building a Fintech in Nigeria: Licences, Partners, Compliance & Unit Economics
How money products are actually built and kept alive in Nigeria — the CBN licence ladder, riding licensed partner rails, the SEC and FCCPC sides, KYC and AML, fraud liability, the fees and float that decide whether you make money, fundraising, and why so many well-funded fintechs died.
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Real Estate Investing & Property Business in Nigeria: Land, Titles, Rentals, Shortlets and Development
How property actually makes and loses money in Nigeria — the title ladder from C of O to family receipt, buying land without being robbed, the real cost of perfection, land banking versus rentals versus shortlets, mortgages that exist and mortgages that do not, developer joint ventures, the fraud playbook, and the 2026 tax rules — with numbers you can check.
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Legal Assistant & Law Clerk: Working in a Nigerian Law Office
The practical skills that keep a chambers running: court documents and filing, legal research, drafting under supervision, case files and diaries, CAC and property paperwork, client care and the lines a non-lawyer must never cross.
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HSE Officer Foundations: Workplace Health, Safety and Environment in Nigeria
What a health, safety and environment officer actually does on a Nigerian site: the law, hazards and risk assessments, permits, PPE, fire and emergencies, incidents, toolbox talks and the management system behind it all.
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Monitoring & Evaluation for NGOs and Development Projects
Theory of change, logframes, SMART indicators, field data collection done ethically, clean data, honest analysis, donor reports and evaluations: the M&E officer's job from a Nigerian project.
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Pharmacy Assistant: Working Safely and Legally in a Nigerian Pharmacy
The counter job explained properly: the pharmacy team and who may do what, PCN, NAFDAC and NDLEA rules, medicines basics without prescribing, prescriptions, stock and cold chain, fake medicines, controlled drugs, records and the premises.
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Selling Online in Nigeria: Instagram, WhatsApp, Marketplaces, Your Own Store and Delivery
Turn products into online sales across Nigeria: the right channels, prices that survive fees and delivery, listings people trust, safe payments, packaging and delivery that arrive, and customer service that brings buyers back.
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Dispatch & Logistics Business: Start and Run a Delivery Operation in Nigeria
From one bike to a small fleet: registration and insurance, vehicles, riders and road safety, bookings and routes, pricing and cash on delivery, proof of delivery, interstate partners, security and the numbers that decide whether you grow.
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Warehouse & Inventory Operations: Stores, Stock Control and Distribution
Run a store or warehouse where the records match the shelves: layout and locations, receiving, stock records, picking and dispatch, counts and variances, reorder levels, expiry and loss prevention, and the safety duties of a supervisor.
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