What's the process for getting a driving license in Nigeria?

What are the conditions, such as minimum age, that need to be satisfied before the licenses are issued?

And what tests, if any, are administered to prospective drivers?

Thanks!

In nigeria, anything goes.
Even if you don't know how to drive just go to licensing office and pay up your money and in 4 or 5days you will get it.
It's five thousand naira for express.
I just did one last week.

No test is required.
But you suppose to go for eye test, blood group and driving test but we don't practice that here.

Who checks Drivers license in NIgeria? I have spent a period of up to 4 or 5 years driving in Lagos everyday without any driver's license. All you need is to settle the police and the dont even ask for your papers. If you do decide to collect it, all u need is a tout to get it for u. You dont need to do any test.

so there is no age requirement?

Nope. No age requirement no nothing. Just get a care and start driving. No insurrance?? No problem, NO lisence?? No problem.

@vexxy its called Naija, where do you think you are in ? US or Britain , hhaahahahah

Vexxy,dont be puzzled by the replies you've gotten so far. The laws about driving,licence,insurance etc are all there,but people tend to advoid them.This is because of the fustration,and delays you get when you want to go through the proper beaurocratic channels. People like us who do try,are laughed at by society and all. Yes,I do have a driving license,but did driving school etc.At then end I had to follow the crowd and get the license through someone I never met,and certainly did not undergo any test!!!
PEOPLE , this does not only occur in Nigeria oh!...Here in Pakistan,my International staff colleagues have gotten both Pakistani and International driving license without any driving tests-and it cost much less than in Nigeria!Anyway Pakistan and Nigeria are both termed to be the most corrupt nations in the world!

Let me start by saying that I got my driver's license before I even learnt how to drive! I'd just bought my car and getting a driver's license was just one of the 'to-dos' on my list. My driver's license was processed in three days and delivered to me at home. In Nigeria, our laws are made to be broken. It's become a habit that if the police ask some drivers for their driver's licenses, you need to see the incredulous looks on their faces.
I agree with the person who said anything goes goes ANYTHING DOES REALLY GO IN NAIJA!

There are rules. But just like everyother thing else. Protocols are not obeyed. Nigeria is lawless.

Thank you for the information, I appreciate it!

It should rather be that Nigerians are lawless, and it is funny how we flaunt the ability to break the law

Please this is not fair.
Which one una dey?
Dem no go respect our International license we dey use here again.

@pitos tell the truth as it is
they all said it as it is and if the authority concerned do not want it. They should sit up and the trend will revise for the better,
@vexxy in fact its better you don't waset your money just keep Clean =N=20 note by you car, cos if you show you License, the police will ask Is that what my wife will use in cooking my food? but if you flash the cash, they will shout all cheeked and correct, madam carry go. even if blood is driping from your car hood.

yes when you want to obey the law in Nigeria you surffer shame, so do it the Nigerian way and move on after all what will be will be.

study real hard for GCE or Jamb go to the Centers you will see imbeciles and nincompoops, carrying expo and bribing their ways with 1000 naira and they come out with high scores and get the best Schools and join their types in cultism while you are still buying forms every other year to face the same thing.. worst of it .. if any action to stop them, it is done in a hurry which now affect you too. guess what... yes your are right the authority Just ban the center and withheld all result (instead of calling those with high score to come and re-write a fresh exams.

another area that bits me is the NPA (Nigerian Port Authority) importers are losing everything the have due to their(costoms) incompetence. they keep changing the rule every now and then size at random,
now look at this

Mr A took a loan from bank C to import at a high interest rate only for the goods to arrive 3 to 6month later and it will take our costoms 3-12 months to clear this shipment that is if they don't seize it due to one flimsy rule or document demand, eventually you bribe your goods out only to see that parts are missing due to what they call port rats(human looters)
now tell me how do you sell the remain scrap, so it is now and pay the bank loan and interest? boy you are in hot soup!!!
the bank will just sell your collateral and your gone to square zero if not dead.

wow. Thank you for your answer.

some cool police officers don't collect bribes but there are just a few of them.

Anyway, i dont think there is any hard process getting ur drivers licence...to some people, it is like "a year". If u get the right connections, there s no time wasting....

i tried to do the test but the guy was like look you will wait 10 years to get your license just give me #1000 and I'll get it for you now. So I paid and next thing I know I have a commercial drivers license... apparently I took my driving test on a bedford lorry...

i beg leave pintos jo... what he is saying is true... mainwhile to get anything in this country na money...

hey men the country's not that bad
why do u have to taint the image of naija like that
but the laxity towards the license stuff is not everywhere.
coz iv stayed in the north for some time and men u really need ur
license to be on the road with that car.
i had a personal experience well im not yet up to eighteen
but i drive and 1 day we were goin somwhere in Kebbi
(northern part of nigeria) and the road safety guys stop us.
They asked 4 my license, i was tryin to give an excuse men they seized the car keys.
i had to pay a fine b4 i was given the key. so itz not like that everywhere.

hey guyz i just had read some stuff about getting license in nigera ....one of my friend mentioned pakistan ..and called my country most corrupted..all i can say better watch ur mouth before u say anything..its not that easy mate..and its ur kind of ppl who try to corrupt our country and by the way i live in america..u can buy social security card on the streets for $20 howz dat like it?

I see this as ur first post. Is that why you joined the forum? Then u got work to do.

Na wah o, I'm new here..... I just bought a Honda Car and I did not know how to drive, I used to think that the procedure for getting a driving license in the country is stressful until now.....

We go wash am o!

enjoyment galore... drive small, small

I wonder how much of an effect this unorthodox driver licensing scheme has on the rate of road accidents.

pay N4500 and submit two passport to the office and u get it in 2weeks

Oracle:

hey men the country's not that bad
why do u have to taint the image of naija like that
but the laxity towards the license stuff is not everywhere.

you are so correct, there is more control on driving in the North.

if i remember quite well, you would be in serious trouble if the road safety corps caught you in Abuja without License and insurance. And the insurance is considerably expensive, i Only speak for Abuja.

who needs 2 get a dl when i can drive and when d popo pull me over, i'll give him some green

Wale you are correct. Its not everywhere in Nigeria where enforcement is so laxidazy
If you where to encounter green boys (army men) for instance money would not buy you anything
Remember it is not just police who enforce the streets in Nigeria.
My advice to you is to collect all the necessary papers and particulars.
For it might be the difference between you spending a helluva time wid green boys,
But if it is police, just make sure you have a stash of twenty twenty naira notes in ur glove compartment

the army have started collecting 20 20 naira, its shocking but thats whats begining to happen.

took me 2 days which was too much time if you ask me,

I had to take a driving test before I got my license. Although that was about 20 years ago and you had to be 16yrs old.