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I've been planning on schooling abroad because I feel nigerian unis can't produce good programmers, but I recently decided †☺ see other peoples opinions for I might be greatly wrong, what are the best unis (private) †☺ learn computer science and graduate wit good rounded knowledge of programming in nigeria?
Yh p.s I read dat bells won the nmc computer programming competition for 3 yrs in a row(09_11). But I would still like †☺ see your list/suggestions.

Thanks in advance

there is nothing like the best school. what matters is you and your ability to think

lekside, u are right but probably the poster wants to hear from those that have actually passed through a university and recommend such school considering facilities, man power, records and d rest.

My cousin goes to Bowen. Supposedly it is a pretty good school for CS.

Yh I meant like schools dt expose students the more, practicals, competitions, e.t.c...
Will look into bowen too, but would U̶̲̥̅̊ recommend lead city in ibadan ??

Try FUTA

@Poster please DO NOT make that mistake of studying computer science in Nigeria if you have the opportunity to go to better schools abroad! I'm a student of the best department of computer science in Nigeria (Obafemi Awolowo University), this is my fifth year in the university and I have a considerable experience in programming and I can tell you that everything in this country is pretty much trash! I don't think you want to go to a university where a data structures lecturer doesn't know what a hashtable is.
Some people talking about Bowen and the likes? That's utter crap!
If you don't have to opportunity to go out, stay here with the rest of us (but put in your personal effort to excel) but if you do, please get better education abroad.
On a final note: please ask yourself why people try to go abroad for masters and why the "big" Nigerian companies don't usually employ domestic programmers for large mission-critical projects? Its because we all know the crap we are being fed with! A lecture coming to class and reading a note into your hearing and when you ask questions, he tells you "that's how its written in the note."

[please I'm sorry to sound a little aggressive, its because of the way educational stuff in this country pains me. I do not mean to hurt anybody. Big respect to you all]

Data structures lecturer doesn't know what a hash table is? lol

Your best bet then is to learn data structures online then. Grab some video lectures from one of the western universities, use that to learn.

Wait, is this some sort of joke? Lead city, Bowen? Do you really expect to learn computer science in those places?
Practicals, competitions? In the last IEEExtreme Programming competition, only 10 teams from 3 schools represented Nigeria: OAU (5), UI (3), American (2). The best team in Nigeria was from UI, my team was third. OAU has been pretty impressive in Microsoft's Imagine Cup too.
Though guyz are trying, I still think tge conditions are not good enough if you want to be on the cutting edge.
Frankly, don't expect much opportunitues in Lead city et al; who even knows they exist (as far as computer science is concerned)?
I'll consider US schools if I really wanna learn this thingy; UK, India, etc are not even on my list. And if you can take a year or two to learn a foreign language before schooling, you can consider Russia, China (luckily, you may meet ACRush *smiles*). #personalOpinion

I'm studying CS in UNN, and it's pretty awesome, what with the school being "wireless" and all that. You get access to lots of repositories. Great stuff!

U can try babcock university dia computer science department is ok! Except dat of goin to church thingy but if u can cope wif dat den I will choose babcock any.

to some extent i believe ders no programmer in 9ja dat wil pinpoint one particular uni. has being d best because most of dem do nt get der skills frm der tertiary institutions...programming is more of self believe nd interest,abi na fortran and pascal u go dey depend on in this modern era of Xbasic and others...........u need d foundation though,jst take d admission frm any1 dat acceptd u and develop urself.....shekenah

lekadornis: abi na fortran and pascal u go dey depend on in this modern era of Xbasic and others...

There are current job openings even in big giants like Intel that require a solid programming experience in Fortran.

Personal skill development is the soul of IT in Nigeria not Computer Science of a thing. I am not againsting studying computer science, though if you are sound your will know that are not totally trash. Thank God you know this early. Please, work on yourself and get good grades as much as you can and don't have it in mind of been local champion if you really want to be the best you are seeing in urself. Best school or not, it's the same set of lecturers that teach there. I am from LAUTECH, and guys are trying here too.

Programming is programming.

If they teach you Pascal at university, surely it won't be impossible for you to pick up another language.

I am a computer programmer, advanced in C C++ Java Fortran JavaScript and so on. I make mobile apps for google android phone and I studied in the UK. I actually didnt do computer science but got taught programming at university because it was an essential part of being a modern scientist because most scientific simulations are carried out using a computer, so Mr SayoMarvel for you information the universities in the UK are very good in terms on computer science and it also depends on how good the university is as well. But if you wanna get to the standard of making softwares and mobile apps, you would have to learn a lot of the stuff on your own.

king_odiase: I am a computer programmer, advanced in C C++ Java Fortran JavaScript and so on. I make mobile apps for google android phone and I studied in the UK. I actually didnt do computer science but got taught programming at university because it was an essential part of being a modern scientist because most scientific simulations are carried out using a computer, so Mr SayoMarvel for you information the universities in the UK are very good in terms on computer science and it also depends on how good the university is as well. But if you wanna get to the standard of making softwares and mobile apps, you would have to learn a lot of the stuff on your own.

So what and what can u program with c,c++,c# e.t.c