Membership
Membership puts you among UK-based engineers of Nigerian heritage and everyone who shares their ambition for engineering in Nigeria — and opens the UK route to NSE membership and COREN registration.
Fees per year · You pay after we confirm your category
Why join
EFN brings together engineers, students and allied professionals who care about engineering in Nigeria — and gives members practical support for their careers in both countries.
We lobby organisations and governments on development and capacity-building initiatives.
Meet and network with other professionals and share opportunities.
Training in best practice and access to state-of-the-art resources.
Obtain COREN and NSE membership without leaving the UK.
See the route to NSE and CORENEFN Ambassadors mentor young people from Black and ethnic minority groups and raise awareness of careers in engineering.
Become an EFN AmbassadorVisits to iconic projects worldwide and introductions to providers of cutting-edge engineering technology.
Categories & fees
Every category connects you to the EFN network and its events. Full membership, for practising engineers, includes the UK routes to NSE membership and COREN registration.
Student
For students on engineering and built-environment courses in the UK.
Student membership costs £15 per year
What’s included
Associate
For allied professionals — built environment, finance, business and academia — with an interest in engineering in Nigeria.
Associate membership costs £30 per year
What’s included
Includes NSE & COREN routes
Full
For practising engineers of Nigerian heritage, or with a demonstrable interest in engineering in Nigeria.
Full membership costs £75 per year
What’s included
Apply first — the Membership Secretary confirms your category, then you pay.
How to payPaying your fee
Once the Membership Secretary has confirmed your category, pay your membership fee by bank transfer to EFN’s NatWest account.
Questions about paying? admin@efn.org.uk
Use your full name as the payment reference so we can match your payment.
Professional registration
EFN has links with the Nigerian Society of Engineers and COREN. We check your paperwork and organise the interviews here in the UK — so you can register without leaving the country.
Stage 1
Join EFN and keep your membership paid up. Full membership includes both registration routes.
12 months minimum
Stage 2
Sit the NSE Presidential interview, held in the UK. NSE membership lets you practise in Nigeria and register with COREN.
Required for COREN
Stage 3
Register with the regulator of engineering in Nigeria. Interviews are held each June; paperwork is due by the end of March.
Outcome
Registered with NSE and COREN — without leaving the UK to do it.
Application
Tell us about yourself and your work. There’s nothing to pay yet — we’ll confirm your category first.
Thank you for applying. The Membership Secretary will be in touch to confirm your category and payment.
FAQ
Straight answers to the things prospective members ask us most.
UK-based engineering professionals of Nigerian descent, and anyone with a demonstrable interest in the development of engineering as a profession in Nigeria. Membership also welcomes students, researchers, lecturers and allied built-environment and business professionals.
No. EFN is an open, inclusive forum. If you have a commercial, academic or professional connection to engineering in the UK or Nigeria, you are welcome.
Submit the application form and the Membership Secretary will confirm your category. You then pay by bank transfer, using your full name as the payment reference.
You need at least 12 months of paid-up EFN membership. COREN registration also requires NSE membership first.
EFN works with corporate partners. If your organisation would like to sponsor an event, host a site visit or share its expertise with our members, get in touch.
Engr Enewan Ebong, our Membership Secretary, can help you choose — or answer anything else about joining EFN.
