TRCN Nigeria: Registration, Portal, Result & PQE Guide
TRCN is the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, the federal body that registers teachers and runs the PQE (Professional Qualifying Examination). Registration, results and the exam portal all live on trcn.gov.ng, with candidate exam sign-up at teachers.trcn.gov.ng/cbt.
What TRCN does
TRCN registers qualified teachers in Nigeria and requires most of them to sit the PQE before full registration. Registration puts you into one of four categories by qualification:
The PQE, briefly
The PQE is a computer-based test: 60 questions, 60 minutes, run in two diets a year — May and November. It covers five equal-weighted areas: Pedagogy, Literacy, Numeracy, ICT and Safeguarding (20% each). Full detail is on our exam timetable page and the free practice bank.
Fees and the 2027 deadline
TRCN publishes its fees: registration plus licence costs ₦6,000 (Category D) to ₦17,000 (Category A), and the PQE cost ₦7,500 to ₦12,000 plus ₦100 processing at the May 2026 diet — full table on our registration page. Schools whose teachers are not TRCN registered and licensed lose public-exam centre status in 2027: WASSCE from March, NABTEB from May, NECO and NBIAS from June (TRCN, 9 June 2026).
What is not yet published
TRCN's own past-questions archive is still a placeholder, and no November 2026 PQE diet is listed on its candidate portal as of 9 November 2026. We say this plainly rather than guess — see each page's "verified" line for what is and is not confirmed.
Verified: trcn.gov.ng, trcn.gov.ng/registration, trcn.gov.ng/qualified-in-nigeria, trcn.gov.ng/pqe-curriculum, teachers.trcn.gov.ng/cbt — checked 9 November 2026