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Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by FactBoyz: 1:08pm On Jun 13, 2019
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Beyond the suit and tie in front of an expensive oak desk are some jobs or businesses one can actually venture into in Nigeria that actually pay well. It is a well-known fact that it is the unreserved dream of every Nigerian to work in an oil company. However, it is also a well-known fact that it is a “camel through the eye of a needle” to get a job in an oil company in Nigeria. So why wait when there are other places that can fetch you a lot of money? brings to you some of those overlooked businesses that surprisingly pay well.

1. Local Restaurant:



You heard me right! All you need is some good sense of cleanliness, good cooking skills (you could learn to cook special dishes from Youtube) a starting capital to buy food ingredients, a good location with a lot of potential buyers, some coolers, plates, spoons Etc. and you’re good to go. Depending on how you can handle it, you can decide to diversify by selling various food types or you can decide to sell a local delicacy or appetizer; whatever you finally decide on, just make sure youre so good at it to make customers always come back for more; In Nigeria, we have popular food chains that started this way.


2. Laundry:


As much as it is disgusting to do someone’s else laundry, it is a market that has always been paying well. This is not unconnected to the fact that people can be sometimes too busy with work schedule that they do not have time for their laundries; hence they are willing to pay anyone with the guts to do so. All over Nigeria, especially in big cities like Abuja, Enugu, Lagos, Port Harcourt and Kanobig cities like Abuja, Enugu, Lagos, Port Harcourt and Kano; this business is a gold mine you can’t wait to explore!


3. Shoe Making/Slippers Making:


I can personally testify to the wonders of this silent business that actually pays well. Our Aba brothers from the South Eastern part of Nigeria are really good at it; increasingly maintaining monopoly in this business. With the right training, anyone can learn how to produce leather slippers, sandals and shoes. This particular business is highly lucrative as the profits in relation to the capital can be unexpectedly huge!


4. Barbing:


Whenever we take a clean shave or cut from the barber, we rarely take note of the prospects this particular job has. Aside the fact that you need to have a good clipper, skill is highly prized. Skill is what makes anyone successful in this particular business. Being able to make those crazy carves. Barbers add spice to this business by making provisions for dyeing of hair, plaiting. Etc.


5. Carpentry/Furniture Makers:


No Nigerian kid, hopes to be a carpenter let alone a furniture maker. However, worldwide brands are built from businesses like this. In Nigeria, carpenters and furniture makers make good money as no good furniture comes with a small price. Potential furniture makers must however acquire the necessary skills needed; including the vast knowledge of materials for customers with a high taste.


6. Keke/Bus Transport Business:


Rickshaws popularly known as Keke Napep or Keke Marwa are built to help transport people from one place to another. Bus drivers and Keke drivers often make more money in a week than a good number of people who think they have decent jobs. In this particular business, the driver must swallow pride knowing that money must be made. However, a good number of Nigerians might find it hard to swallow the pride *lol*


7. Akara (Bean Cake) Frying:

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It is normal to walk the streets of Nigeria in the early hours of the morning and see a woman by the corner with a big pan frying akara. In Lagos, this business is highly profitable as it attracts a lot of people fetching good, considerable amount of money. People get trained by their parents in the university through this particular business

8. Football Viewing Center:


Nigerians love football; so venturing into this business surely guarantees success. This involves streaming live epl matches through a large screen television or connecting a projector to a television and streaming it LIVE. For each person that walks in to view a match; money is made. Other side attractions that can be added which can include providing foods and drinks for viewers.


9. Tailoring:

Tailors might not work in an office with air conditioners but a good number of them make almost the same amount as anyone in an office. Skill and professionalism is highly required to be successful in this business.


10. Bakery:

With good mastery in the act of providing tasty cakes, buns, biscuits Etc. good money is assured. Bakery remains one businesses in Nigeria that actually pays well. Starting this business isn’t just enough but also securing buyers from reputable stores to patronize you; hence the need to be exceptional.




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Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by FactBoyz: 1:08pm On Jun 13, 2019
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Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by Exempted: 1:21pm On Jun 13, 2019
Very true.....

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Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by Pulsenaija: 3:29pm On Jun 13, 2019
Okay Nice or You Can Also get your question answered

What Business Can I Start With 50000 Naira In Nigeria?

https://pulzenaija.com/others/what-business-can-i-start-with-50000-naira-in-nigeria/
Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by ForeThinker: 3:30pm On Jun 13, 2019
Cash and Carry = Ashawoo

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Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by saintokwuluora(m): 3:30pm On Jun 13, 2019
Do you want to tell me that owning a bakery is a menial job?

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Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by Nobody: 3:30pm On Jun 13, 2019
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Skull mining also pays well.

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Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by freemanbubble: 3:30pm On Jun 13, 2019
Forget that thing

Just buy a 3gig ram phone if you can't buy a laptop
Start to bomb.

Meet guys make them give you format and tools

Within three months you go dey collect steadily!

No body should criticize me because life itself is a scam
So there is no reason why can't i take scamming as a career

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Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by Seanteewhy: 3:30pm On Jun 13, 2019
Naso but capital matters a lot
Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by Saheed9: 3:31pm On Jun 13, 2019
Area boys
Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by ABCthings: 3:31pm On Jun 13, 2019
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Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by afroniger: 3:31pm On Jun 13, 2019
Furniture making no be menial job o. Some furniture makers dey seriously cash out.

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Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by sarmuel97(m): 3:32pm On Jun 13, 2019
i think that true if only the owner as plan for his /her life cuz some of this people just spend anyhow as they see the money buh some people will use the money wisely

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Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by ifyalways(f): 3:32pm On Jun 13, 2019
Mason and Tillers.

They make mad, fast money.

While the average 9ja school boy dey beg online, waste his free time on SM, Togolese, Benin republic boys are busy making their cool Benjamin's. They make nothing less than 10K daily.

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Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by Aile(m): 3:32pm On Jun 13, 2019
gather here if you believe hustle pays..

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Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by iamclime(m): 3:32pm On Jun 13, 2019
I did not see any menial jobs here. Who did?

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Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by Adakintroy: 3:32pm On Jun 13, 2019
Gamblers would have said bet niaja.

But them Don shop dem die.

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Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by Thelonewolff(f): 3:33pm On Jun 13, 2019
bet9ja don spoil viewing center Biz since, who still dey pay to watch match?

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Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by tosinornottosin: 3:33pm On Jun 13, 2019
Just imagine
Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by mightyhaze: 3:33pm On Jun 13, 2019
what about scamming,....













where is dat ”see below it” clown? grin
Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by Lamasta(m): 3:34pm On Jun 13, 2019
Generator Servicing grin

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Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by davibid: 3:34pm On Jun 13, 2019
So on point

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Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by NnaNna4(m): 3:35pm On Jun 13, 2019
Wait.. Is it bakery that is a menial job...I laugh in Swahili

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Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by Nobody: 3:38pm On Jun 13, 2019
ifyalways:
Mason and Tillers.

They make mad, fast money.

While the average 9ja school boy dey beg online, waste his free time on SM, Togolese, Benin republic boys are busy making their cool Benjamin's. They make nothing less than 10K daily.
no be the same tilers and mason weh we know again.
You come dey sound like na yahoo boys cheesy

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Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by rhythyson: 3:38pm On Jun 13, 2019
Furniture making is not a menial job oooo

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Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by g2db2do(m): 3:40pm On Jun 13, 2019
any spare part business pass all u mentioned...think of ladipo and owode onirin in Lagos then gate, ogunpa and dugbe in ibadan

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Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by Isobug: 3:41pm On Jun 13, 2019
How are these menial jobs for goodness sake?

For Bakery alone, you need more than 100k to start. How can it be a menial job when it requires a startup capital of more than 100k?

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Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by Ikpongiton: 3:45pm On Jun 13, 2019
Pulsenaija:
Okay Nice or You Can Also get your question answered

What Business Can I Start With 50000 Naira In Nigeria?

https://pulzenaija.com/others/what-business-can-i-start-with-50000-naira-in-nigeria/
you can acquire an empty space in maitama or asokoro and start cars selling business

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Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by wandeay: 3:47pm On Jun 13, 2019
My prior motto is 'Never settle for less!'
Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by dadavivo: 3:47pm On Jun 13, 2019
FactBoyz:
job seekers... food is served
they don't want these type of work, they want government work where they will go and gossip every day

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Re: Top 10 "Menial Jobs" In Nigeria That Surprisingly Pay Well by Wholesalebeast: 3:51pm On Jun 13, 2019
Alternatively, you can start selling minimum of 3 shoes per month as side/full time hustle. You can buy designer shoes from for very cheap factory price and earn huge profits.
Work smart,not hard. smiley wink
Check profile. grin

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