Hello house,

I'm currently doing my masters in Geographic Information System (GIS) though I studied agric during my undergraduate days but I need info from anyone about the prospect of GIS in Nigeria. My foray into GIS is as a result of my background in IT and I didn't wanna do masters in Agric so I opted for GIS after much research on it and its application in virtually any field.

I'm aware of its application in agriculture, engineering, banking, medicine and a whole lot of fields but I have no idea of its application in Nigeria.

Is GIS used in Nigeria? Does the government or corporations knows its importance? If its being used, which company or organization makes use of it and its prospect? Anyone with experience or an idea should please help with answers.

I also need resources to use so as to master it well.

Thanks

na hot cake o! Everyone is currently doing MBA; HSC and other common professional qualifications out there. I think the only way to get ahead of the competition is to do something entirely novel. When you look at the possibilities of GIS in agriculture and diverse fields these days, then you would know you've made a wise choice. Just like that maxim: I will prepare myself, then I will wait. You could be recruited by a foreign firm someday. Are you doing the Masters course in any university within the country? if yes, where?? Best wishes.

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na hot cake o! Everyone is currently doing MBA; HSC and other common professional qualifications out there. I think the only way to get ahead of the competition is to do something entirely novel. When you look at the possibilities of GIS in agriculture and diverse fields these days, then you would know you've made a wise choice. Just like that maxim: I will prepare myself, then I will wait. You could be recruited by a foreign firm someday. Are you doing the Masters course in any university within the country? if yes, where?? Best wishes.

Thanks for the heads up. Yes, the university is within the country and also having an external training by the side. I'm just trying to know the prospect in naija even though I know its hot cake applicable to any field. Just hope naija would see the prospect and importance. Thanks once more

Dude...GIS is gradually being accepted in Nigeria by the day....there are great prospects in the feild...telecoms, d oil industry,d minning industry,seismic industry,land/geophysical survey industry,govt parastals like inec, agis,rivgis,bgis,etc all practice gis in Nigeria....the health sector has even keyed in to gis.....i would advise you to add one or two areas of information technology to your gis cert.....e.g database mgt, programming or server administration.....this can serve as a bridge for you to switch b/w agric-gis-information technology, if u can sharpen ur skills in statistical analysis...it will be an added advantage....pray a lot & network as well..........hope this helps.

We are on this together am an agric engineer hoping to drift into GIS aswell. Though a little skeptical about the prospect in Nigeria, still making my research on it. But am sure its the right choice. Will like to discuss this further with you

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