I’m not really understanding folks that undermine a Treehouse certificate & Udacity certificate. If you’re getting a Treehouse Front End Dev Cert and Javascript Cert alongside Udacity Back End Nanodegree Cert. My brother you’ll be technically stronger than 50% of Front & Back-End developers in Nigeria. I’m talking from experience.
I’ve met so called front end developers in Nigeria that don’t even understand how to build “Mobile First” websites, don’t use Sass or Taskrunners(gulp/grunt) and have jobs, might not be great jobs but they’re working.
Besides from what i know from Treehouse you come out with a Portfolio that you can use to start applying. On the Treehouse Slack chat someone in his 7th project, bought a domain name built a portfolio and got a job, person hasn’t even finished the Course.
Don’t be discouraged fam, you’re on the right path with the certifications, build your skills, work on a couple of projects, maybe for free at first(probably try out freecodecamp) to have stuff for your portfolio aside from the certification projects.
Moyheen the Android babe that gives talks here and there, if i’m not mistaken, She credits her technical skills to the Udacity Nanodegree.
Bottomline you will not lack a job in Nigeria if you know your stuff (Front End/Back End)
Ways to build a portfolio
Make Clones(design an already existing popular site and put it on your portfolio, host it if you can)
Work for Free (build sites for friends,family etc), put your heart in it. Put that on your portfolio.
A dev with a reasonable portfolio will not lack a job for long.
On another note you’re 25, you have more than enough time to get it right. Just keep pushing forward, don’t allow the past to affect you.