How To Make Money In Nigeria

Latest Ways On Making Money Online In Nigeria [2020]

make money online in nigeria

It's no longer a myth that you can make money online both in Nigeria or beyond.

Despite being one of the giants of Africa, Nigerians still suffer from unemployment and even those that are employed are looking for means to add up in other to have some sort of side money.

So in this post, I would be telling you some of the very latest ways of making money online in Nigeria.

Don't worry I gat you!!!!! 😎😎

The online space is a very big place and can accommodate anyone and everyone. You don't need to be born with a silver spoon before you can make money online in Nigeria.

As a student, unemployed, full-time employee, stay at home mum, etc you can make money online in Nigeria if you read this article till the end. 😘😘

Before we continue it`s good to know that non of the ways we share is a get-rich-quick scheme it requires work.

That been said this is the latest ways of making money online in Nigeria

1. Freelancing

This is a good and effective way in which you can earn money for providing services like, creating Facebook business pages, data entry services, file conversation service, etc to your client online and get paid for your serviing simple services such as writing articles, graphic desices.

Freelancing is a lucrative way to make money online in Nigeria because you literally can work part-time or full time and you get paid for the services you provide.

Some of these services don't even require any special skills eg creating Facebook business pages, making logos, editing pictures for your client such as retouching, spot removal, etc.There are apps/softwares that can do the magic for you.

To become a freelancer you need to sign up in any freelancing platform

Here is a video I did, showing the different freelancing websites in nigeria.

There are other freelancing site like

fiverr
upwork
peopleperhour

These sites are not Nigeria freelancing sites but Nigerians can also work and earn money there.

Working on microjobs platform is also profitable especially when you have time and nothing doing. You can do simple task like following social media accounts, pages etc and get paid

Here is a video i did about how to make money online in nigeria as a teenager or adult

2. Start A blog

A blog is literally a conversation between the blogger and the reader. Starting a blog is still very profitable.

start a blog

To start a blog you need to find a niche you will enjoy writing about, because it can be a way to express your expectertise or passion for a topic.

so you need to be passionate or excited of what you want to blog about.

Do you know you can still make money by blogging?
Oh yes!!! you can.

A blog can be monetized using different methods such as

Affiliate marketing
Display ads
Selling a product
Online courses
Ebooks etc.

Blogging is another lucrative way to make money online in Nigeria and beyond.Although it requires lots of work but it very very lucrative because lost`s of people are looking for information, reviews, recipes, etc on the internet.

Now if you can write a great article that would solve or provide useful information about their problems then those visitors can buy a product your referring that's affiliate marketing or buy your online course or buy an ebook or even click on the ads that are displaying on your site and you make money it's that straight forward.

3. Affiliate Marketing

This is another way to make money online in Nigeria. All you need to do is to refer a buyer to buy a product using your affiliate link and once the purchase is made you get a commission.

It's that's simple😋

Affiliate marketing is best effective if you have used the product you are referring

To make money online in Nigeria using affiliate marketing you need to sign up to affiliate programs or sites

We recommend this

Jumia

it' s one of Africans biggest online shopping platform. The easy way to shop and have your item delivered is super cool and the brand is well known by Nigerians.

So when you recommend a product from their platform your audience would want to buy because their brand is popular and used by most people.

Click here to sign up for jumia affiliate program

Konga

it's also a big brand in the online shopping industry in Nigeria. It's also popular in Nigeria. refer a product and whenever someone buys using your affiliate link you get a commission with no extra charges to the buyer. Click here to join konga affiliate program

Amazon

This is very popular all over the world. Even when you refer a product and someone uses your affiliate link to buy another product, you earn a commission.

Note: To sign up click here

4.Youtube/vlog

YouTube is own by Google, with a Google account you can own a YouTube channel.

To make money with a YouTube channel you need to meet their monetization policy. Which are 1000 subscribers and 4000 watch hour in the last 12 months.

Now don't be afraid, all you need to do to meet their partnership requirements is to keep providing unique content and optimizing your channel for growth by using related keywords and channel descriptions.

We recommend you read their terms and conditions to get more info.

To make money online in Nigeria using YouTube you need to monetize your videos using Google AdSense.

How to make money online in Nigeria fast

Create niche website

When you create niche website you can target a specific type of audience, so whenever you recommend a product it`s gets to your audience specific needs because they need that particular product to solve a specific problem .

Sell on jumia

You can sell your own products on Jumia and because lots of people use the platform it makes it easier to get buyers

Sell on konga

You can also sell on Konga to get buyers easier on their platform.

How to make money online in Nigeria as a student

Money can never be enough in school. So one needs to have other streams of income.

sell services on Fiverr

Fiverr is a freelancing platform where anyone can buy or sell their services online.

You can sell services like logo designs, business pages for social media, thumbnails for YouTube videos, writing, data entry, file conversation maybe from PDF to word, etc.

You don't need special skills for some of these services. You can literally create them using some sites or software e.g to make a free logo you can use Canva.

If you want to create thumbnails as well Canva is also a very good platform for it.

In fact everything graphic can be done using Canva. Learn how to use Canva here.

To convert files you can go to smallpdf.com

Fiverr works with gigs so you have to optimize your gig by using keywords in your gig description.

Here are some of the easy services you can provide in Fiverr without special skills

1.make a logo for your client (use Canva)

2.create a Facebook business page (of course using Facebook)

3.remove backgrounds of images (use remove.bg)

4.create thumbnails for your client (use Canva)

5.create image ads for your client (use Canva) etc.

Here is a video about how to create logo with canva

Sell video courses on Udemy

You can create an online course and sell it on Udemy. This is very cool isn't it ???

An online course is basically a video and/or some other documents teaching people or sharing knowledge about something.

Anyone can do this. Just share your knowledge about something and have people pay for your course.

There are so many online course platforms but I recommend Udemy because they have lots of students using the platform and it's super cool to use the platform and they have multiple payment systems.

To sell your course you need to sign up as an instructor here.

Create and sell an ebook

Ebooks are another cool way to make money online in Nigeria. Almost everyone has a smartphone so when you create a book that can help them solve a problem or share knowledge and they can assess this book on their mobile, desktop, or laptop and read through then they can pay you to get the book.

To create an ebook requires work you need to write the book first then as always you use Canva to design it to your choice using their templates.

After all this you then need to sell it, To do that

You need a site or landing page to be very effective but you can also sell it to people you know it would benefit. Or have it on online platforms like okadabooks.

Become an online tutor with a membership site

You can create a membership site and teach people.For them to join they would need to subscribe with any amount of fee you want and you can choose to make it either monthly, yearly or for life, it's your choice to make. Share information, resources, etc to them.

To wrap this up there are still so many other ways to make money online in Nigeria. It all depends on you to choose which goes well with you and you can even implement multiple streams.

I would continue to update this so If you found this helpful share it and also leave a comment.

Here is a video about online money making jobs for Nigerians