HEAVEN4444:
NIgeria is working for some. let everyman carry hin own cross. you are not in this world to enjoy. you are in this world to pay karma. if your karma is plenty it matters not if you are in canada or america, you will be there suffering. and if your karma is little it matters not if you are in nigeria or afghanistan you will be enjoying

femijay8271:


Nice one bro but pls where can I start from, I mean I want to learn this web development and I have no idea at all

barnaby04:
I took time to follow this thread from the beginning and indeed encouraged with the zeal of a lot of people to switch to tech. Believe me, tech is the way out of poverty as an African man or woman and the good thing is that you don't need to have a CS degree or a graduate before you can make it in tech. Don't be scared by not having a CS background because most professionals in the tech industry today are self taught and some did not even pass through the four walls of an higher institution.

I read the story of a young Nigerian that was a gateman in one south Eastern state in 2016 and now working with Facebook in London as a product designer without a university or polytechnic certificate. He self taught himself design from YouTube tutorial videos and by divine prodividence got a job offer that relocated him first to Netherlands and later London where he is now with Facebook.

The tech industry is so broad that there are different career pathways or areas in which you can specialize as a tech person aside web development. You can be a cyber security expert, cloud computing, Artificial intelligence, Data Analyst or Scientist, Mobile App Developer, UX/UI/Product designer, network or database administrator. The list is endless.

What a lot of people don't know is that YouTube is the best university or institution you can come across to learn anything in life. Download various video tutorials from this website that will teach you any tech skill in you want in life. For those that want a structured learning path, I advise them to buy a course on Udemy which will take them through all the rudiments and projects to do. The projects you do in the course of your learning will help you build your profile which will help most especially when you are looking for jobs.

Not having a laptop or desktop computer is not an excuse any longer. You can start learning programming on your android phone through these wonderful apps; W3Schools, Sololearn and Code Academy.

Twitter has a thriving tech community which you can follow through #100DaysOfCode and #CodeNewbie. You will learn a lot from successful programmers on twitter from the tips they share regularly and probably get jobs if you are active with good content there.

I wish everyone considering transiting into tech industry the best of luck.

IbileIfe:


THERE IS NO CRYPTO BAN in Nigeria.
You can be in Nigeria and network and work globally.
Fintech Industry is booming in Nigeria.

tishbite41:

Oga Boss, I greet o

What's the way forward?
I've got a laptop.
What apps should I get so that I can learn how to code.
Thanks.

TJoshy:
what's live coding test ?

Karleb:




I remember when I was young and I desperately wanted to go to my hometown which is a village. There was a day I cried so much because my parents didn't allow me to with one uncle like that.

Years later, I went to my village to see things for myself.

As at now, there is no single bank in my village.
Our market is every 5 days. The last time I went, I got injured by a barber.

These kids think Nigeria is the same as they see on TV. When they come, they stay on the beautiful part of Lagos Island and conclude that's how the whole of Nigeria is.

Issokay.

macjireh:

I am a novice to programming... wat programming language will u advice I start with?

damosky12:


LOL. You think those in Europe and USA are having it all easy? Ask questions!

vickimannia855:
Please I would like to ask because I also have interest in IT, my question is, between been a programmer and a cyber security expert which one is better

tensazangetsu20:

It's not automatic o but my company's own hiring window is closed. I put it up on WhatsApp groups I am active in when it was open and two people got in. I don't know where they are from though but they were the only ones who did well in our coding test.

olioxx:

.
Bro please drop link to the WhatsApp group, so that I can join.
.
Thanks.

tensazangetsu20:
Tech twitter has been on fire this past few days. First was the new startup law being passed that will see the government taking one percent of startup revenue especially fintechs and the second was the closure of accounts belonging to fintech companies like risevest, investbamboo, and trove. This is just 2 months after the crypto ban.

I predicted this will happen a few months back but some people as usual called me a pessimist. Now, this has happened. They came for gokada first citing stupid reasons yet okadas are still in Lagos driving anyhow. They blocked remittances and made it very difficult to receive money. If you work remotely in Nigeria for a foreign company, you can attest to how difficult it is to receive money. I know people who have lost their jobs just because the companies they work for could not figure out how they could pay them in Nigeria then add the epileptic electricity supply and the bad internet.

If you are a programmer, trust me you are amongst the elite. Walai every day I regret not discovering the tech industry earlier. There's a fucking huge demand for programmers outside the shores of Africa. Latin America, Europe, and Asia. A lot of people think japa and will be thinking USA and Canada. Getting a work visa to these countries as a Nigerian living in Nigeria is almost impossible. It has happened for some people but its not the norm and you should not place your hope on it. The USA has a cap on the amount of work visas that go out every year and those visas most times go to OPT candidates (people who have schooled in the US). Canada doesnt have a cap but they prefer permanent residents or citizens to processing a work visa from scratch for an outsider. Australia same thing.

There are other countries that exist that do not have a cap on work visas and are desperately looking for programmers. These countries can be used as a stepping stone to your final dream destination instead of wasting your life in Nigeria looking for a US or Canadian visa. Countries like portugal, spain, brazil, mexico, vietnam, japan, south korea. The list is endless. These are countries desperately looking for programmers and their work visas arent difficult to get. Their governments are even encouraging tech migration to prepare for the next industrial revolution. As a Nigerian you have a serious advantage getting there. You speak English. English is the unofficial defacto language of the IT industry. If you go on linkedin and search tech jobs in this countries, you would find out that one of the requirements for most of these jobs is professional english proficiency. Their citizens dont have it and a few who have it are headhunted to countries like the US and Canada leaving a huge gap for skilled third worlders like Nigerians to take advantage of. A japanese programmer who speaks english really well can get into the USA easily. Japan has a visa waiver program with the USA and is one of the few countries that shares a working holiday visa with the US. Brazil has one with germany. Uruguay has with sweden. These are countries you should target because their own people are leaving presenting a very huge gap. Once you can get into these countries, leaving to your dream destination isnt too difficult and even if you dont want to leave, these countries have a lot of opportunities for you to build your own tech business. Their governments are very progressive. Their people arent poor or getting poorer and are very open to using technology. Theres another way of getting to the US via L1 company transfer but how many american tech companies exist in Nigeria and whats the size of the engineering team? These countries have as much 2000 to 3000 size engineering teams. You can move there, switch jobs to an american company and request for an L1 company transfer. The possibilities are limitless.

I myself started testing this theory out and I have gotten ten interviews from companies in Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, Vietnam, and Chile. I am in the mid way of 3 and I really hope one goes through as I want to leave the zoo fast.

You might say stay in Nigeria and start a tech business. Well with what the government is doing to startups and the purchasing power of Nigerians reducing everyday, I dont know how that would be viable. NIgeria is so bad to the point that to eat food is a problem. Growing up, Nigeria was never at a level where food will be a problem. Festival periods and we would have food from all our neighbours even the poorest. Now thas not done and the worst is yet to come.

You can say stay in Nigeria and continue remote. Trust me remote work is sweet in your 20s but a sponsorship job is better as you would be provided insurance for, pension plans and all of that which remote work wont give you and remote jobs arent stable especially with small companies. You can lose them anytime and you need to start looking again. Its not bad in your 20s but will you be doing this at 40 and above. Will you be applying to remote jobs at 50 when your mates who migrated are CTOs for fortune 500 companies earning millions of dollars every year while you are looking for scraps in remote.

Make haste o.

TimeSpaceWizard:
The fintech are mostly Avenue for money laundering and the government has right to ban them.

On the bad internet, it is terrible to get good internet outside Lagos, and Lagos is too chaotic.

I am counting on Starlinks from SpaceX. There is hope.

As for giving government 1% from my start up, it's nothing compared to the 35% applicable in the US but in Nigeria we can bribe the bribable.

Let's sacrifice our comfort and build something for our children if the Fulani will allow us have peace in the South

tensazangetsu20:

Since April is good na. My own state has been owning workers for 3 years and doctors for 18 months.

TJoshy:
I studied Microbiology in my BSc. I work at an FMCG company as a Quality Assurance. I'm planning now to do a Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science and thereafter I'll do MSc Computer Science at Unilag during this time I'll be learning hard-core programming, I'm 30. I hope it's a good plan.

tensazangetsu20:
Tech twitter has been on fire this past few days. First was the new startup law being passed that will see the government taking one percent of startup revenue especially fintechs and the second was the closure of accounts belonging to fintech companies like risevest, investbamboo, and trove. This is just 2 months after the crypto ban.

I predicted this will happen a few months back but some people as usual called me a pessimist. Now, this has happened. They came for gokada first citing stupid reasons yet okadas are still in Lagos driving anyhow. They blocked remittances and made it very difficult to receive money. If you work remotely in Nigeria for a foreign company, you can attest to how difficult it is to receive money. I know people who have lost their jobs just because the companies they work for could not figure out how they could pay them in Nigeria then add the epileptic electricity supply and the bad internet.

If you are a programmer, trust me you are amongst the elite. Walai every day I regret not discovering the tech industry earlier. There's a fucking huge demand for programmers outside the shores of Africa. Latin America, Europe, and Asia. A lot of people think japa and will be thinking USA and Canada. Getting a work visa to these countries as a Nigerian living in Nigeria is almost impossible. It has happened for some people but its not the norm and you should not place your hope on it. The USA has a cap on the amount of work visas that go out every year and those visas most times go to OPT candidates (people who have schooled in the US). Canada doesnt have a cap but they prefer permanent residents or citizens to processing a work visa from scratch for an outsider. Australia same thing.

There are other countries that exist that do not have a cap on work visas and are desperately looking for programmers. These countries can be used as a stepping stone to your final dream destination instead of wasting your life in Nigeria looking for a US or Canadian visa. Countries like portugal, spain, brazil, mexico, vietnam, japan, south korea. The list is endless. These are countries desperately looking for programmers and their work visas arent difficult to get. Their governments are even encouraging tech migration to prepare for the next industrial revolution. As a Nigerian you have a serious advantage getting there. You speak English. English is the unofficial defacto language of the IT industry. If you go on linkedin and search tech jobs in this countries, you would find out that one of the requirements for most of these jobs is professional english proficiency. Their citizens dont have it and a few who have it are headhunted to countries like the US and Canada leaving a huge gap for skilled third worlders like Nigerians to take advantage of. A japanese programmer who speaks english really well can get into the USA easily. Japan has a visa waiver program with the USA and is one of the few countries that shares a working holiday visa with the US. Brazil has one with germany. Uruguay has with sweden. These are countries you should target because their own people are leaving presenting a very huge gap. Once you can get into these countries, leaving to your dream destination isnt too difficult and even if you dont want to leave, these countries have a lot of opportunities for you to build your own tech business. Their governments are very progressive. Their people arent poor or getting poorer and are very open to using technology. Theres another way of getting to the US via L1 company transfer but how many american tech companies exist in Nigeria and whats the size of the engineering team? These countries have as much 2000 to 3000 size engineering teams. You can move there, switch jobs to an american company and request for an L1 company transfer. The possibilities are limitless.

I myself started testing this theory out and I have gotten ten interviews from companies in Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, Vietnam, and Chile. I am in the mid way of 3 and I really hope one goes through as I want to leave the zoo fast.

You might say stay in Nigeria and start a tech business. Well with what the government is doing to startups and the purchasing power of Nigerians reducing everyday, I dont know how that would be viable. NIgeria is so bad to the point that to eat food is a problem. Growing up, Nigeria was never at a level where food will be a problem. Festival periods and we would have food from all our neighbours even the poorest. Now thas not done and the worst is yet to come.

You can say stay in Nigeria and continue remote. Trust me remote work is sweet in your 20s but a sponsorship job is better as you would be provided insurance for, pension plans and all of that which remote work wont give you and remote jobs arent stable especially with small companies. You can lose them anytime and you need to start looking again. Its not bad in your 20s but will you be doing this at 40 and above. Will you be applying to remote jobs at 50 when your mates who migrated are CTOs for fortune 500 companies earning millions of dollars every year while you are looking for scraps in remote.

Make haste o.

28plus:


Which IT institute?

Historicalee:


Get the PGD and Masters if you can, it will come in handy.

Hassanmaye:

Sorry sir I pray you heal your wound About Nigeria, people like you need to stay na and help rebuild the country, if oyinbo men continue brain draining us who Go remain in this country?? Cultist? Kidnappers? Armed robbers?

Sprumbaba:

I got a job for Tony on Nairaland in the US 11 years ago. He turned it down. I am sure he will grab the opportunity today with the way Buhari is dealing with Una.

lordally:


This is something you need to make research on and choose the one that best alligns with your interest. Let me touch a few Path. Do you wanna be any of these?

UiUX DESIGNER
FRONT END DEVELOPER
BACK END DEVELOPER
FULL STACK DEVELOPER
DEVOPS

AND SOME OTHERS

Make research on any of the above and know what it entails and also the programming languages involved then you would have more direct questions to ask. I wish you all the best

Bossman:
You can start with any structured programming language, such as Java. The key thing is to learn the concepts and master it, regardless of the programming language you use.

Johnnyessence:
I did mine in classic infotech institute in Osogbo. But they now have branches in all the sw states except Ibadan office.

lordally:


If you're sure you need a tutor then , be ready to cough out like between 300 to 500k for some Bootcamps in Nigeria. But I also thought so like you until my eyes opened. I would advise you download a specific video on any of the desired field of software development you choose to go in. Please don't ask me the area of software development you should go in. That one is Meant for you to research on and choose the one which resonates with your interest.

lordally:


You can learn this one your own! All you need is

A Laptop
Good power Supply
Programming courses

And you're good to go.

tensazangetsu20:

Please mention me on an old thread and I will do it later today. So many PM's and mentions here.

tensazangetsu20:

It's not automatic o but my company's own hiring window is closed. I put it up on WhatsApp groups I am active in when it was open and two people got in. I don't know where they are from though but they were the only ones who did well in our coding test.

ichidodo:
I will like to find a country that appreciates the easy migration of programmers especially in Africa..

Karleb:

Man, my own future ambition is to leave this country before I'm 30.

Alphaman007:
what aboout ui/ux designers. people don't talk much about them

JapaProfessor:

Rwanda


Start learning a new language.


They are equally as valuable.

tensazangetsu20:
Tech twitter has been on fire this past few days. First was the new startup law being passed that will see the government taking one percent of startup revenue especially fintechs and the second was the closure of accounts belonging to fintech companies like risevest, investbamboo, and trove. This is just 2 months after the crypto ban.

I predicted this will happen a few months back but some people as usual called me a pessimist. Now, this has happened. They came for gokada first citing stupid reasons yet okadas are still in Lagos driving anyhow. They blocked remittances and made it very difficult to receive money. If you work remotely in Nigeria for a foreign company, you can attest to how difficult it is to receive money. I know people who have lost their jobs just because the companies they work for could not figure out how they could pay them in Nigeria then add the epileptic electricity supply and the bad internet.

If you are a programmer, trust me you are amongst the elite. Walai every day I regret not discovering the tech industry earlier. There's a fucking huge demand for programmers outside the shores of Africa. Latin America, Europe, and Asia. A lot of people think japa and will be thinking USA and Canada. Getting a work visa to these countries as a Nigerian living in Nigeria is almost impossible. It has happened for some people but its not the norm and you should not place your hope on it. The USA has a cap on the amount of work visas that go out every year and those visas most times go to OPT candidates (people who have schooled in the US). Canada doesnt have a cap but they prefer permanent residents or citizens to processing a work visa from scratch for an outsider. Australia same thing.

There are other countries that exist that do not have a cap on work visas and are desperately looking for programmers. These countries can be used as a stepping stone to your final dream destination instead of wasting your life in Nigeria looking for a US or Canadian visa. Countries like portugal, spain, brazil, mexico, vietnam, japan, south korea. The list is endless. These are countries desperately looking for programmers and their work visas arent difficult to get. Their governments are even encouraging tech migration to prepare for the next industrial revolution. As a Nigerian you have a serious advantage getting there. You speak English. English is the unofficial defacto language of the IT industry. If you go on linkedin and search tech jobs in this countries, you would find out that one of the requirements for most of these jobs is professional english proficiency. Their citizens dont have it and a few who have it are headhunted to countries like the US and Canada leaving a huge gap for skilled third worlders like Nigerians to take advantage of. A japanese programmer who speaks english really well can get into the USA easily. Japan has a visa waiver program with the USA and is one of the few countries that shares a working holiday visa with the US. Brazil has one with germany. Uruguay has with sweden. These are countries you should target because their own people are leaving presenting a very huge gap. Once you can get into these countries, leaving to your dream destination isnt too difficult and even if you dont want to leave, these countries have a lot of opportunities for you to build your own tech business. Their governments are very progressive. Their people arent poor or getting poorer and are very open to using technology. Theres another way of getting to the US via L1 company transfer but how many american tech companies exist in Nigeria and whats the size of the engineering team? These countries have as much 2000 to 3000 size engineering teams. You can move there, switch jobs to an american company and request for an L1 company transfer. The possibilities are limitless.

I myself started testing this theory out and I have gotten ten interviews from companies in Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, Vietnam, and Chile. I am in the mid way of 3 and I really hope one goes through as I want to leave the zoo fast.

You might say stay in Nigeria and start a tech business. Well with what the government is doing to startups and the purchasing power of Nigerians reducing everyday, I dont know how that would be viable. NIgeria is so bad to the point that to eat food is a problem. Growing up, Nigeria was never at a level where food will be a problem. Festival periods and we would have food from all our neighbours even the poorest. Now thas not done and the worst is yet to come.

You can say stay in Nigeria and continue remote. Trust me remote work is sweet in your 20s but a sponsorship job is better as you would be provided insurance for, pension plans and all of that which remote work wont give you and remote jobs arent stable especially with small companies. You can lose them anytime and you need to start looking again. Its not bad in your 20s but will you be doing this at 40 and above. Will you be applying to remote jobs at 50 when your mates who migrated are CTOs for fortune 500 companies earning millions of dollars every year while you are looking for scraps in remote.

Make haste o.

28plus:


Ok thanks sir