ABSTRACT
The
internet penetration worldwide has reached over 3.4Billion with Nigeria ranked
7th worldwide, it is on this nation that the research examines the internet competency among students of
tertiary institutions in Nigeria with a particular reference to University of Lagos and Lagos
state Polytechnic, Lagos. Internet hosts lots of academic database such
as google scholar, google book, Wikipedia, encyclopedia, and lots of research pages libraries among others. It houses business as well. In fact, almost
everything on academic can be accessed online free and in premium. Survey
research method was adopted coupled with 100 copies of questionnaires that were
administered to 100 respondents that were drawn among the selected higher
institutions using a simple random sampling technique. However, the data
collected were analysed and interpreted using simple statistics (Frequency and
percentage method with tables). As a descriptive statistics. It is recommended
that every tertiary institutions should make ICT or computer a compulsory
course while there should be a provision for wireless facility on campus to
enable access to the internet students are expected to use internet for gain
and not for vices.
