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Discover new opportunities in Nigeria

We support you free of charge on your way to new job prospects. This applies if you live in Nigeria or want to return there.

Our team advises you on job applications, professional qualification or if you want to start a business. We also offer training and psychosocial assistance.

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Here you can choose a location for the consultation:

Abuja
Benin City
Lagos

Our services

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Our services

The Nigerian-German Centre for Jobs, Migration and Reintegration welcomes you. If you live in Nigeria or would like to return there, you can get information and individual advice on the following topics:

  • Job opportunities and training in Nigeria
  • Business start-up
  • Psychosocial support and help in emergency situations
  • Regular migration to Germany

We also arrange trainings on various topics:

  • Starting a business
  • Digital skills (app development, digital marketing, blockchain and cybersecurity)
  • Crafts (bakery, confectionery, shoemaking)
  • Fashion design
  • Services

Insights into our work

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How we help you to return to your home country

Returning home and reintegration in achievable steps. You will learn:

  • how you can plan your return to your home country even while still in Germany
  • and the opportunities for help that are available.

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  • who will advise you locally after you arrive back home, so that you can turn your plans into reality and make your new start.
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Individual Counselling

We have different target groups – these include unemployed young people, refugees within their own country and returning migrants. The services that we provide are tailored to their individual needs: psychosocial support, social integration, but also help for returning migrants in finding temporary accommodation and with any possible health issues. We offer a range of training courses to help people integrate back into society and the workforce. Here they can get the training they need to start out in a new career or learn new skills, for example in information and communication technologies.

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On the way to stardom

Learning from role models and making contacts - this extraordinary opportunity has been offered to young artists through the art master class “Made-In-Nigeria”. Their works will now be exhibited from May 16 to 20 in cooperation with the NGC in Abuja.

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Starting over as a baker

Many young people in Nigeria have the same sobering experience: they finish school, sometimes even have a university degree, and cannot find a job. Some leave the country in search of better opportunities. This is where the training in baking and confectionery that the German-Nigerian Centre for Jobs, Migration and Reintegration (NGC) facilitates comes in. It is aimed in particular at young women in search of career prospects. They receive professional training at the "Amena Entrepreneurial Academy" in Benin City. They also receive support to start their own business after graduation. Here, three graduates talk about the training and their plans.

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Successful with a chicken farm

I now live with my family in Nigeria again and raise poultry. You can make it here too. 

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Training & Support

Cynthia was planning to open her own fashion store in Nigeria – then along came the COVID-19 pandemic. Now Cynthia is sewing face coverings, but this public order gives her some financial security even during the crisis.

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Now that I’m a fashion designer, I’m leaving the past

My sister and I set up our own fashion label in my native Nigeria.

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Successful as “Mama Fish”

The knowledge I gained from a training course in fish farming meant I could set up my own company.

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Responsible advice given as equals

The Nigerian-German Centre for Jobs, Migration and Reintegration (NGC) advises people who are seeking new opportunities. This sometimes involves them having to confront their own experiences from the past – and here too the NGC team provides counselling.

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Country experiences

“I’ve achieved something amazing through my fashion business”

The Nigerian-German Centre helped me when I was in a difficult situation. Now I’m self-employed and proud of my own shop.

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Successful as “Mama Fish”

The knowledge I gained from a training course in fish farming meant I could set up my own company.

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Now that I’m a fashion designer, I’m leaving the past

My sister and I set up our own fashion label in my native Nigeria.

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Success in establishing a chicken farm

Now I’m now back living with my family in Nigeria and raising poultry. It is possible to achieve something here.

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New start with a dream job

My route to Europe ended in Libya, but now my brother and I are running our own tailoring business in our home country of Nigeria.

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My company, my future

My name is Jerry and I come from Nigeria. A scholarship enabled me to study engineering in the UK for a year in 2014. After that it became clear to me: I wanted to return to Nigeria and utilise my knowledge in my homeland.

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Services provided by our partners

Work and starting a business, training and professional development, psychosocial health and emergency support – our partners also provide numerous services related to these and other aspects. Our advisory team will be happy to refer you to the appropriate organisation. You can get an overview of what is available here.