Any information about their hon. in computer & pratice certification. I want to apply for becos i dnt have any universecity degree. I want to apply to APTECH or NIIT or Karrox for a degree cos. Univercity admission in Nigeria is hard. Please your advice will help.

I dont think dey do hon in comp and practise certification.I know dey do a degree course and HND in Aptech.It is a good place to be

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omg, i saw this thread clicked it and started reading your posts from the begining, after reading like 4 i couldn't hold it again.NIIT is total rubbish, i started a course there and i'm still regretting going there in the first place.i remember the lecturers (or 'faculties' as they call themselves) saying aptech is rubbish and all that but a friend of mine that left NIIT to aptech speaks otherwise.at a point, about 3 people had to share a computer because we were too many in a class.we didn't get our books in time and we had to share that aswell.i beg any body reading this and having a mind of going there,just save your money while you can because the annoying part of it is the huge amount they con u off,but their books are good though

NIIT na wack na.Aptech is better

hello wat are u guys saying,i dont have a degree in any university but am really doing fine with NIIT certificate.it was really a great time being with dem.am using my certificate to work in a well paid organisation.what i really think is that it depends on ur ability to do some things.fine indians are not worth it but we nigerians too can complain,even if they give us best education we will still complain we are never satisfy God will help us all.but i know NIIT is really worth it.

@texbiano

Tex was up, we no even hear from u again.

this is Joy ur paddy

Students from Aptech r heading top organisations in Nigeria and some even get paid as high as 1m a months.

It does depend on skills too.

d best word i use 2 describe NIIT is Mr Biggs i.e they've got d name

True talk

lol

Hey if u ask me, i will say that niit is the best around that u can get. IT is a hot cake right now so u have to pay much to get the best, i think the money is ok. You can just sit at home and look the learnkey tutorials for CCNA or A+ or what eva and go write the exam and pass. You can always say it is expensive when u look at it from that perspective. for me i think niit is ok, i'm currently studying there and i think it is the best place around when u talk of IT. Where ever u go, u have to have interest and u have to study hard to make it. the books i was given are very self explanatory, i can read and understand even without a lecturer. if i read hard, then i will finish and know what i did, but otherwise, i will just finish, waste my money and i will not be able to defend my certificate anywhere. so please don't just sit there and say bad things about my school. you don't know better than IDC that rated niit among the first 20 of its kind globally, higher than even aptech. if it was not worth it it would not have expanded to over 35 countries and over 3200 centers in 20 years. go and ask how much it costs to study in other niit centers worldwide and u will know that nigeria is one of the cheapest. anywhere u go to in the world to study, u can either choose to waste ur time or u can do something good for urself, its left to u to choose. please go and look for facts before u come and start talking rubbish about other peoples' schools. thank you.

about the degree, niit offers a degree in computing science and its practice in collaboration with the UK open university. the course duration is 3 and a half years, u first start with niit for 2.5 years and then proceed to their lagos or portharcourt center to do the top up programme in the UK open university. that is what i am doing at the moment. i was studying comp science in atbu bauchi and i left in my 3rd year for this course in niit, and so far so good. i will advise you to go and make more enquiries at both aptech and niit before takin any decision and make sure u are computer literate. u should at least know how to operate a computer.

i think niit is just like a guide,go get what they have to offer ,get on the net and practice more not only practicing but read hard cos there books are self explainatory.an advice to niit student shine ur eye,meet people,ask question and i bet u ,u wont be on the losing side. but some nairalnders get bad mouth oh, shu.nawa oh.

don't hate just being factual.

i worked in aptech in 2002 as a faculty(instructor) and i also have a friend that joined aptech from niit in 2002. my younger brother finshed his course in aptech this year.

so i can talk about aptech- v.i centre. it is a good school and worth the investment. their programs are broad (from database to programming, from vb.net, java, microsoft office, sql).

however, you must have the passion yourself, study and practise.

niit-- there books are good, their certificate is hot and they have the name but their programs are streamlined-- e.g u go in 4 java or u say u go in for database. mostly favours professional (my own opinion) trying to get into a new technology.

however, there are cheaper schools especially in lagos.

my advise, if you cant go to any other cheap school go to aptech. i spent 280k funding my bros education there. for a 1 year program. the guy said it was worth it.!!!

hi tinulol

its nice to c a girlDBA

grad from NIIT

mailin u now

I think all these centers have their pros and cons NIIT wa once good but they seem to have been slacking lately their standards have definitely dropped but they still have that name sha you cant take it away from them.You do have to open your mind though and dont expect to be spoonfed you need to practice and show some seriousness on your part but the place is ok.A lot of fine chicas too .Thats depending on the center and your time schedule though

NIIT is doing a Degree programme and its what i'm doing. i'm also running a programme at APTECH. when it comes to Networking, APTECH is good and when we're taking of Software, NIIT is the best. If you really need a degree programme, i'll advice you to come to NIIT and put in for a course called DNIIT.

I wouldn't say NIIT is that bad , I was there around 2001 at the Iponri centre in Surulere and  I was lucky to be with this batch of really hard working guys and we did a lot of group studies thanks to the books and  it paid off .
  I wouldn’t say it was NIIT that got me to where I am today,  it was   down to share determination and a lot of hard work. A place like NIIT is a good start but you cant rely on the lecturers alone, 4 of us studied together to prepare for the  MCP examination which we all passed and today we all have great jobs because we did not stop there.

I think what really helped  was the fact that I moved to UK to study just after I left  but if I had not gone to NIIT I don’t think I would have continued with IT.
Guys to really excel in IT at times you need more than what a school has to offer or any lecturer, you have to be determined.

  I work for Microsoft Corporation  now in UK and the hard work is what got me there with the  help of great friends  , Lanre , Chike and Ikemefuna I will always cherish the times we all spent together.

Abbey

Hi y'all well I'm now not sure where i want to go for IT training, with all the pros and cons i have been reading, although i was thinking of NIIT and KarRok cos i want to do CISCO certifications, or does anyone have a better idea

thinkin of doing oracle but first desktop publishing, niit or aptech

Pls The NIIT issue is wort to be discussed. Despite the hug amount of money collected, i see no work done by some of the graduated students. The hanbooks produced by them are not wort the Name.

Say every bad thing u want about NIIT, in the first quater of next year i'm signing out with a First class degree (BSc) in Software Eng (aka Comp Sci & Prac). 

I've spent 4 years at NIIT, i hold the highest certification they offer (DNIIT).
Spent 3 years getting that
i used my DNIIT to migrate to the British Open University, to complete my course, spent 1 year there and just finished final exams.

The NIIT experience would remain one of a kind.
No hard feelings about Aptech, here they are just under the NIIT shadow, don't know of some other part of the country.


Ok that's the good side of NIIT
Let me spill some milk now, lol.
Some of NIIT lecturers suck, thts for shizzle.
NIIT has blinded the eyes of those who want to be blinded with their "scholarship" thing (God has to punish them for that)
At early stages, NIIT is more intrested in ur money, when u get to advanced levels, they start treasuring u hoping u'll work for them when u're done (lai lai).
NIIT salaray sucks major donkey ballz, (Kai, 35k per month!! for what na?)
NIIT fees are on the high side

if u don't have a car, hmmmmm e go hard o when u're walking into the place. Last week i went to sign my exam tickets, i parked outside and walked in, to ma left na Accord 08, to ma left na Camry08, i was still looking when a chic came in with a Toyota Tundra. I looked far into the parking lot and spotted a Ford F150 truck, i had to thank goodness i parked far outside (don't ask wht car i brought) lol. So most people in the beginner levels of NIIT now are just there for the fun and rave, most of them will drop out when the core programming hits them.
etc, lol

P.S: NIIT has little to do with what i've got today, no higher institution can be better than ur personal hard work.
Goto the best institution, without ur personal best, its still gwan be crap.
Anyhowz, it don't matter where u go, wht matters is ur personal dedication to ur course.

NIIT is woth the while,if u want to be an IT proffessional,their training and certs. are really worth it.

They cost much money, esp for GNIIT courses

presently running my degree with them (NIIT) men they are hot

I reside in benin,much does the books for web design and datebase programming cost @NIIT? I want to know so that i can use their books to love-vendor my knowledge of web design and database programming.
The fact about anything in life is that practise makes perfect. Any thing you do in life, you must commit or dedicate your time to doing it well if you want a good result:it also applies to the situation at hand.

I went through an NIIT textbook on Javascript. and it so easy to locate errors
You dont need to try some of them before you know "this cant work"

They have the name and i guess Nigerians love it when they pay a lot of money to get the same thing they can get for less
especially when the environment looks world class.
they can even pay 500,000 naira to learn how to use dreamweaver

The best you can do for yourself is DIY
download tutorials online and master them
You can go there if u need the papers though.

Never stepped computer classes yet i dey try small small, at least i tutor people on how to use these languages
like yawa once said, na under bridge we learn our programming

In my own opinion, any body giving a high rating to NIIT is very limited in knowledge, NIIT is fairly ok, but they don't worth the lump sum as cost of Tuition, they are just bunch indian professionals who have come to rip us off the little money we have.
1. NIIT charge higher in Nigeria. 2. They curriculm is funny and obsolate. Prove: Imagine an institution who call it' self the best in africa offering dreamweaver and Macromedia fireworks as courses for website design, such institution should be able to offer raw coding in xhtml on as text editor notepad (any body who can write code in notepad can use any text editor in the world). They only offer consol aplication development on linux. How could an institution who want to empower nigerian programmers to succeed teach them to programm on a platform that literally do not exist in their country, we all know that windows rules africa, then why is NIIT not offering windows programming, we all know that the use to consol applications (MS DOS) is limited to macro computers like ATM, PDA etc, then why is NIIT is offering only consol application programming and not GUI programming or both. Who will even give a consol application programmer job to do? is it a university who needs a database system or the government or the private sector (Note that the most common programming jobs you get in nigeria is a database system with you

I must say that OVER half the people that go IT schools have NO business there. The band wagon effect which is typical of Nigerians is the problem. You hear of someone that went to NIIT and is working with some big company and you feel that's the place to be. Or maybe you want to pass time while waiting for NYSC. Good.

IT is about practicals. Unfortunately, our university system is more of theory. An engineering student that cannot fix an car? Who are we kidding?

If you want to get into IT business, you have to be ready to get down and dirty. Its NOT a place to get a Certificate and wave it around hoping to get a dream job. Its 100% practical. Its either you know it or you don't.

I was in NIIT in '07 (on scholarship @ half price), in my Java class we were 21 when we started. Half way through the course we were 8, at the end only 3 graduated. There was a pregnant woman in my class who had NO business with Java. She just wanted to SPICE UP her CV. Wasted her husbands 150K in the process.

IT may be the "in thing" but it  ISN'T for everyone. If you aren't ready to get down and dirty, keep your money or invest it. There's a global recession, this is NOT the time to waste cash.

@Number one

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I will be MOST grateful.

How i wish i ve somebody that will sponsor me, i ll go to niit. succeeding in any school depends on you, you, and you.

Their price sucks!!

I'm currently a Student of NIIT taking their 2 year Career course (Now 3). They are not the best and overcharge but they are also not that bad.

They don't cover GUI programming as much as u'd like, but if u no sabi wetin 2 type 4 notepad, how u 1 come take use Dreamweaver or Netbean?!

I still love em

Please come to New Horizons .....choose New Horizons for all your IT and E-Business Trainings,Learn from NewHorizons and Succeed.

NIIT is living in past glory. Just walk in to the Surulere branch and interview its students.
Most of them are dissatisfied. The students still depend on CBT Nugget. I dont recommend NIIT of this present age (on franchise) to anyone.