About the Academy
Battery Academy Naija is an initiative of ACE-FUELS at the Federal University of Technology Owerri. It trains the people who handle batteries every day — collectors, technicians, installers, dealers and regulators — to work safely and to keep valuable materials in the loop.
Why this Academy exists
Batteries are arriving in Nigeria in growing volumes — in phones, in solar home systems, in inverters, in vehicles. Handled well, they are a source of materials and skilled work. Handled badly, they are a fire risk, a health risk and a waste problem. The Academy exists to move the second case towards the first, by teaching the skills and assessing them properly.
The training is deliberately practical. It covers identification and condition categories, safe handling and hazard control, receiving quality and diagnostics, reuse decisions, and the recycling routes and reporting that follow.
What the Academy is not
A Battery Academy Naija certificate records the tasks assessed in a project course. It is not a national qualification or licence, and it does not authorise hazardous work without employer authorisation. That scope statement appears on the certificates themselves and on the verification page.
Who it is for
Coverage
Training is organised by the six geopolitical zones. The first wave covers the Southwest, Southeast and South South; the North Central, Northeast and Northwest zones follow in the next wave.
- SouthwestSWAvailable
- SoutheastSEAvailable
- South SouthSSAvailable
- North CentralNCNext wave
- NortheastNENext wave
- NorthwestNWNext wave
Training begins October 2026 in the Southwest, Southeast and South South. The other three zones follow.
Project context and partners
Battery Academy Naija is delivered by ACE-FUELS, Federal University of Technology Owerri, under the project Recycling Lithium Batteries for Critical Minerals: An Africa First, supported by the UNIDO Accelerate-to-Demonstrate (A2D) Facility.
Funder and consortium logos are withheld until visibility clearance is confirmed. The live site carries the same restriction in its own source comments.
Quality and assurance
Every certificate-bearing course carries a knowledge check, a practical element where the work is physical, and a list of critical items that must all be passed. Completion requires every required item to pass — a high total can never override a failed critical item.
Course content follows the approved WP6 curriculum and is version-controlled. The website and the Moodle platform are kept in step with the approved curriculum version.
Curriculum version and approval status should be published here once the FUTO technical lead and Hinckley review of curriculum v1.1 is confirmed.
Contact
The Academy can be reached on the channels published below. Please note that the public website does not collect or store registration data.
Join the first intake
Registration for the first wave is handled through the Academy's offline-capable registration form, so you can register from a phone with no data connection.