Federal College of Education (Technical), Akoka

The Federal College of Education (Technical), Akoka is a federal institution in Akoka, Yaba, Lagos. It began as the National Technical Teachers College (NTTC), Akoka, the country's first technical teacher education institution, set up after the ILO Special Fund Project for training technical and vocational educators ended in 1967.

In 1982 it was renamed Federal College of Education (Technical), Akoka, with the addition of NCE (Technical) programmes, and in 1986 it became a fully autonomous institution under Federal College of Education Decree No. 4 of 1986 (amended 1993).

It runs full-time NCE programmes and, under the dual mandate policy, full-time degree programmes (B.Ed., B.Sc.Ed., B.A.Ed. and B.Tech.Ed.) in about 28 courses from the 2025/2026 session, plus degree programmes in affiliation with the University of Benin and with FUT Minna, and distance learning (DLP) and PDE options. It publishes the Akoka Journal of Vocational and Science Education.