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please i need to know if Rhce is useful in Nigeria

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asked whether RHCE is useful in Nigeria. Short answer: yes — for certain roles and employers — but usefulness depends on where you want to work and which skills you pair with the certificate. As hinted, it helps some people; as and suggested, the practical next step is to check local demand before investing.

Concrete way to decide:

  • Search current job ads on local boards (Jobberman, LinkedIn, local company sites) for keywords like RHCE, RHEL, Ansible, Linux sysadmin, DevOps. Note which employers (banks, telcos, datacentres, large ISPs, oil & gas, government IT) repeatedly ask for those skills.
  • Call or email a couple of local IT recruiters or training centres to ask about placement rates for RHCE holders.
  • Compare training/exam costs to likely starting salaries for those roles in your city.

How to make RHCE pay off:

  • Treat RHCE as proof of practical, enterprise Linux and automation skills, not just a paper certificate. The modern RHCE emphasizes hands-on tasks and automation (Ansible). Practice with real labs (VMs or virtual lab providers) and build a small portfolio of work: automation playbooks, server builds, monitoring setups.
  • Add complementary skills employers want: cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), containers/Kubernetes, scripting (Bash/Python), and basic networking/security. That combination attracts both local and remote roles.

Cautions and alternatives:

  • RHCE is vendor-specific. If your target market prizes cloud or vendor-neutral skills, consider Linux Foundation (LFCS) or cloud certs instead or alongside RHCE. Because of ecosystem shifts (CentOS changes), use compatible distros like AlmaLinux/Rocky for practice if you cannot get a RHEL subscription.

Next steps: verify demand in your city, try a short hands-on course or self-built lab, and then decide whether to pursue the full RHCE based on actual job openings and recruiter feedback.

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Member Avatar for caperjack

weird quest ,but i would guess not as usefull as water ,but check with locals and see if anyone uses redhat on a larg scale and would need trained redhat techs

Member Avatar for JorgeM

Yes Red Hat can be useful for some but not others.

Member Avatar for ayowanddy

ok thank you

Member Avatar for caperjack

you actually asked 2 different questions
this one being the most important i think !!
question #2 = please i need to know if Rhce is useful in Nigeria
http://www.redhat.com/training/certifications/rhce/
link talks about RHCE
this answer to question 1 is obvisous

Member Avatar for BigPaw

If you are trying to decide on a career move or path then this post would have been better in the Community forum. People would have understood its context better.

As Redhat is a popular version of Linux, if you receive formal training and qualifications with it there may be some good opportunities for you. Try Googling phrases similar to this, "linux jobs in Nigeria", or, "Redhat jobs Nigeria". Alternatively, you could find a local Job Agency (they recruit people for companies in a temporary basis) and ask them what the demand is for people with Redhat/Linux qualifications.

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