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NIGERIAN DEFENCE ACADEMY

ACADEMIC BRANCH
(Office of the Academy Registrar)

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION INTO ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS

OF THE NIGERIAN DEFENCE ACADEMY

1. To be eligible for admission into the Nigerian Defence Academy, a

candidate must have the following:
a. Minimum of 5 credit passes at SSCE (WAEC or NECO) or GCE ‘O’
Level obtained in not more than 2 sittings relevant to the Faculty of
their choices.
b. Credit in English Language and Mathematics.
c. At least two supporting relevant credits to the compulsory credits
in Faculty of Military Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies, Faculty of
Arts and Social Sciences and Faculty of Science. However, only one
supporting relevant credit is required in the Faculty of Engineering.
d. Be at least 17 years old and not more than 21 years old as at the
month of August in the year of entry into the Academy. Note that
candidates who desire to join the Nigerian Airforce must be between
17 and 18 years old at entry, and also the Nigerian Army has
suspended the enlistment of female candidates in her Regular
Combatant programme in Academy.
e. Must not be less than 1.68 metres tall for male and 1.58 metres
for female.
f. Must be medically and physically fit and must be of good moral
character.
g. Must be single male or female without legal obligation to support
any child or other individuals.
h. Present a Certificate of State of Origin obtained from a Local
Government Area or a Certificate of State Indigeneship from the Office
of the State Governor.

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2. Furthermore, candidates are to note the following:

a. Candidates awaiting results are not qualified. Results not
submitted with application form will not be accepted.
b. Only examination results of 5 years old from the date of
examination will be accepted.
c. Currently, admission into the Academy is for both male and
female Nigerians only, and is limited to Navy and Airforce in the case
of female candidates.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS FOR FACULTY OF MILITARY SCIENCES

AND INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

Course General Requirement Compulsory Relevant Credits

Credits
BSc Intelligence 5 credit passes in not English Language, Economics,
and Cyber more than 2 sittings Computer Studies Government/Civic
Security Studies including English and Mathematics Education, Geography
Language and and History
Mathematics
BSc Peace and 5 credit passes in not English Language, Economics, Geography
Conflict Studies more than 2 sittings Government/Civic and History
including English Education and
Language and Mathematics
Mathematics
BSc Leadership 5 credit passes in not English Language, Economics,
and War more than 2 sittings History and Government/Civic
Studies including English Mathematics Education and
Language and Geography
Mathematics

COURSE REQUIREMENTS FOR FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL

SCIENCES

Course General Requirement Compulsory Relevant Credits

Credits
BSc Economics 5 credit passes in not English Language, Accounts, Commerce,
more than 2 sittings Economics and Government/Civic
including English Mathematics Education, Geography
Language and and History
Mathematics
BSc Accounting 5 credit passes in not English Language, Commerce,
more than 2 sittings Economics and Government/Civic
including English Mathematics Education, Accounting,
Language and Geography and History
Mathematics

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BA French 5 credit passes in not English Language, Economics, Geography,

more than 2 sittings French and Government/Civic
including English Mathematics Education and History
Language and
Mathematics
BSc Geography 5 credit passes in not English Language, History, Economics,
more than 2 sittings Geography and Government/Civic
including English Mathematics Education Physics,
Language and Chemistry and Biology
Mathematics (preference will be
given to those having
credits in social science
subjects)
BA History 5 credit passes in not English Language, Economics, Geography,
more than 2 sittings History or Commerce and French
including English Government/Civil
Language and Education and
Mathematics Mathematics
BSc Political 5 credit passes in not English Language, History, Economics,
Science and more than 2 sittings Government/Civic French and Geography
Defence Studies including English Education and
Language and Mathematics
Mathematics
BSc Psychology 5 credit passes in not English Language, Economic,
more than 2 sittings Biology and Government/Civic
including English Mathematics Education, Chemistry
Language and and Geography
Mathematics

COURSE REQUIREMENTS FOR FACULTY OF ENGINEERING

BEng Civil 5 credit passes in not English Technical Drawing,

more than 2 sittings Language, Further
including English Mathematics, Mathematics,
Language and Chemistry and Biology and
Mathematics Physics Geography
BEng Electrical 5 credit passes in not English Technical Drawing,
and Electronics more than 2 sittings Language, Further Mathematics
including English Mathematics, and Biology
Language and Chemistry and
Mathematics Physics
BEng Mechanical 5 credit passes in not English Technical Drawing,
more than 2 sittings Language, Further Mathematics
including English Mathematics, and Biology
Language and Chemistry and
Mathematics Physics

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COURSE REQUIREMENTS FOR FACULTY OF SCIENCE

COURSE GENERAL REQUIREMENT COMPULSORY RELEVANT CREDITS

CREDITS
BSc Biological 5 credit passes in not English Physics, Further
Sciences more than 2 sittings Language, Mathematics and
including English Mathematics, Agric Science
Language and Biology and
Mathematics Chemistry
BSc Chemistry 5 credit passes in not English Physics and Further
more than 2 sittings Language, Mathematics
including English Mathematics,
Language and Chemistry and
Mathematics Biology
BSc Mathematics 5 credit passes in not English Chemistry and
more than 2 sittings Language, Further
including English Mathematics and Mathematics,
Language and Physics
Mathematics
BSc Computer 5 credit passes in not English Chemistry, Further
Science more than 2 sittings Language, Mathematics and
including English Mathematics and Biology
Language and Physics
Mathematics
BSc Physics 5 credit passes in not English Chemistry, Biology,
more than 2 sittings Language, Further Mathematics
including English Mathematics and and Technical
Language and Physics Drawing
Mathematics

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APPLICATION GUIDELINE

All applications for the 68th Regular Course of the Nigerian Defence
Academy must be done electronically through www.ndaapplications.net.
Please read through the Requirements Section before continuing with the
application.

1. Accessing the Home Portal

a. Using any browser of your choice, preferably (google chrome,

Mozilla firefox) go to http://www.ndaapplications.net and wait for the
portal to load.

b. If you are visiting the site for the first time, click on Purchase
Access Code, fill in your details as required via REMITA then click
NEXT to obtain your ORDER ID and REMITA Retrieval Reference
(RRR) Code.

c. Click on Pay with Remita after which you would be redirected to

Remita’s site to make payment.

i. Follow the instructions on the site to pay online after which you
would be returned to the sign up page on the Application Portal
to create your login profile, or
ii. Click on Print Invoice to print your details and pay at a bank.
Go back to the Application Portal to
http://www.ndaapplications.net and click on Create
Account/Login, on the Login page select Sign Up Here to create
your account profile after entering all the required details
including the RRR Code.

d. If you have previously created an account then click on Create

Account/Login and then login using your registered Email and
Password credentials previously created.

e. If you have previously created credentials protocol but have

forgotten your Password, click on Create Account/Login and then on
Recover Password link to take you to the password recovery page to
recover your password.

2. Creating your Credentials (Sign Up)

a. All the fields on this page are compulsory.

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b. You must provide your full name, email address (working email
address), mobile number and password.

c. Your password and confirm password must be the same and

must have at least 6 characters in length preferably with a
combination of alphabets and numbers.

d. The portal will respond with a success message if you have

successfully created your credential data and redirect you to the Log
In Page automatically.

e. If for any reason you are not successful with the Sign Up, please
try again.

3. Log In

a. On the Login Page, provide the email and password that was
used to create your credential protocol, and click Log In.

b. This Action will authenticate the User before redirecting you to

the Application Form.

c. If the email and password provided are wrong, the application

will respond with an error message and request for another.

4. Filling the Application Form

a. The Application Form Page opens as soon as you provide your

correct credentials and it is divided into 6 sections (Personal Data,
Schools Attended, Qualifications Obtained, Choice of Service,
Faculty and Departments, Passport Upload).

b. All the fields marked asterisk (*) are compulsory.

c. Personal Data –

(1) Application Number is generated by the System if your

application is successful.

(2) Fill the Form in a Capitalize Each word Format (e.g

NIGERIAN DEFENCE ACADEMY).

(3) Type in boxes as provided.

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(4) Select your option in Drop down boxes as provided.

(5) Provide your Phone Numbers as (e.g 070XXXXXXXX).

(6) Date of Birth must be filled in the format dd-mm-yyyy.

(7) Height must be in numeric format only (e.g 170) in

centimeters.

d. Schools Attended

(1) You should provide the complete name of each school

attended.

(2) From and To Fields must be numeric only 4-digit year.

e. Qualifications Obtained –

(1) You must provide your correct JAMB details as required.

(2) You can only use 1 or 2 results which can be 2 different

exams in a particular year or 2 exams done in different years or 1
single exam of any of the Exam Type.

(3) Select your Subject and grades as applicable.

f. Choice of Service – You must choose 2 different options here.

g. Faculty and Department – Select faculty and then the

department for the course you wish to study. Only one option is
available here. It must correspond with the course you chose on
JAMB portal.

h. Passport Upload – Please choose passport with a clear view of

your face showing your two ears with a plain background. The
passport size should not be more than 300KB.

i. Save button – Use this button if you have not completed some
parts of the Application Form. The platform will retrieve your saved
session when next you log in to complete the form.
Note: You must complete the form and Submit before the closing
date of the application.

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j. Submit button – Click on this button where you have

provided all the compulsory and optional fields of the Application
Form. (This will automatically take you to Document Upload Form).
Changes cannot be made to the Application Form once it is submitted.

5. Document Upload Form –

The Document Upload Form must be completed, otherwise your
application will be disqualified.
You must upload the following documents:
 Scanned WAEC/NECO Certificate for each of the Qualification
submitted.
 Scanned birth Certificate.

Click on Submit to Complete as soon you have uploaded the

scanned documents.

6. Printing Acknowledgement Form – Please print the

Acknowledgement Form as soon as you have completed the Application as
specified above.

Note: The Link to Print Acknowledgment Form will be automatically

seen after you have completed your application form and submitted
your documents.

7. JAMB Result Requirement (OFFICIAL PROCESSING)

The remaining steps will involve the Nigerian Defence Academy to
process your application against your submitted JAMB details.

a. You must score at least the National Cut-Off JAMB Score to

qualify to sit for the Entrance Examination.

b. You must sit for JAMB UTME Examination with subject

combinations relevant to your intended Course of Study in Nigerian
Defence Academy as provided by JAMB.

c. Candidates for Engineering Courses must score at least 210 in

JAMB.

8. Choice of Examination Centre – After the release of JAMB results

candidates who meet the cut-off mark will be required to log on to the
portal and select the examination centre of their choice.

AFTER SITTING AND RELEASE OF THE NDA EXAMINATION

RESULT FOR 68TH COURSE, AN SMS AND EMAIL WILL BE SENT

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TO YOU TO PRINT LGA and PARENTS/GUARDIAN ATTESTATION

FORM.

9. Printing of LGA and Parents/Guardian Attestation Form – Please

log online and Print the LGA Attestation Form and Parent/Guardian
Attestation Form. Follow the instruction on the Forms to complete them
and await your invitation for final interview.

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