5 Hot Ways Any Student Can Make Money Online In Nigeria

Let’s face it! Being in school and working to make some extra cash isn’t easy. Imagine going for classes at 8am, lectures end at 3pm and after classes, you race to your workplace where you’re supposed to resume at 4pm. Maybe you work at a phone store or a food restaurant. Your work ends at 9pm, you have dinner, now you’re in your room ready to study what you wrote down in classes for that day. We both know you won’t go beyond the first page before you tell yourself “I can’t go and kill myself” and then plant your head in your pillow.

Working and chasing a degree seems impossible, but it isn’t. You can carry out your regular school activities and still make some money on a side if you combine the ‘RIGHT’ job with school work. You can already guess where I’m going with this. That’s right! Working online to make money. It is no news that a lot of people make money online by doing one task or the other online, you might have even heard your friends talk about making money from things like Fiverr, graphics design, web design and they all seem like rocket science to you. Fiverr, graphics design or web design might not be the Job for you. That’s why we have taken the time to write 5 hot ways any Nigerian student can make money. Surely, you’ll find something that suits you.

Freelance Writer

If you know how to articulate your thoughts into writing and create great content then this might be your thing. You can use your writing skills to make money on platforms such as Fiverr and Upwork and Blogexpose  (more on Fiverr, Upwork and Blogexpose in coming sections).

Make Money With Instagram

Many people don’t even know they can make money on Instagram. When you get a large number of following real people, you can definitely make money. Emphasizing the phrase “real people”. If you use Instagram you would have definitely stumbled upon those accounts that have about 200,000 followers but 300 likes on their pictures. Common! How will you have 200,000 real followers and only 300 people will like your pictures?

There are many ways to make money on Instagram but the two simplest ways are

• Build accounts and sell them
• Build accounts and make money from sponsored posts

You can build accounts on Instagram by following and liking people’s pictures and posting regularly. You select a niche (e.g fashion, comedy, arts and craft, relationship) and post content on Instagram about it regularly. By regularly, I mean at least three times in a day. Follow people following pages similar to yours, like their pictures and see how your follower base will begin to increase. You can unfollow some people after about three days or so. That way your following count won’t be more than your follower count. After you build your accounts, you can either list them for sale on social media trade websites like https://socialtradia.com or keep them and get paid when people want to promote products in your niche. You can also use your accounts to promote products and earn a commision on them as an affiliate. A deeper guide on how to make money using Instagram would be coming soon. For a step by step guide on making money on Instagram, read make money online with zero investment on Instagram.

Graphic Design

Many people are really ignorant about this field, graphic design. You can’t blame them though, anybody can install photoshop and CorelDRAW these days and calls himself or herself a graphics designer. Then they charge their Customers a very ridiculous amount of money for very ridiculous Job. Please don’t be like them! Graphics design isn’t just about knowing how to draw shapes and symbols with graphics design software but more about the creativity behind the design.

There are graphic designers earning as high as N150,000 every month here in Nigeria. They work for digital agencies such as Cregital, Anakle to mention just a few. You can also use your graphic design skill to make money on freelancing platforms. (again more on that in coming sections)

Freelancing on Fiverr & Upwork

What is Fiverr? Fiverr.com is an online platform where people come to buy and sell services also referred to as gigs.  On Fiverr people sell services which could range from top services such as website design or something as ridiculous as hiring witches to cast a spell on someone you love. No seriously! You can hire a witch on Fiverr for $5. Since we already talked about some skills you could learn such as graphics design, video editing, and writing, you can sign up on fiverr.com, put a description about yourself, list services you offer and start earning some money. The sweet part is you earn in dollars, so whatever you earn, you multiply by N350.

Upwork.com is pretty similar to Fiverr, the difference being that they are a little stricter than Fiverr is. In fact, for some services, Upwork conducts online tests to see if you’re truly knowledgeable in that field before letting you sign up. Unlike Fiverr though where most people that come to buy your services are probably looking for the cheapest rates, Upwork is more of professionals who know what they want and are willing to pay top dollars for your service.

Blogging

When you mention blogging to a typical Nigerian internet user, what they conclude on are gossip and news blogs. Then they go “many people are already doing that, they all just copy and paste content from other people”. If you also think like that too, be prepared to have a change of thought today. Blogging isn’t just about copying and pasting and rewriting content from other websites. In fact, blogging isn’t copying and pasting and people who do that rarely make money and end up quitting at the end up quitting.

Blogging is publishing content online which are intended for a particular audience. How do you make money online blogging? You can make money by putting an advertisement on your blog or promoting products and earning a commision. The more people you that visit your blog, the more money you make. You can start a free blog on blogger.com, pick a subject you’re interested in such as fashion, relationship, tech, whatever, start writing and sharing with your friends.

In Conclusion, whichever of these methods you decided to pick to making money online, make sure it’s something you have interest in. That way when things get tough, you won’t give up easily. As time goes on, more methods will be added to the list of how to make money online.