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The Nigerian economy, presently, is not in an enviable condition and we all know that the 'street' is not friendly and it has not been easy with many graduates. Does this mean that one should continue to wait till a well-paying job comes along? NO!!! Staying idle, doing nothing is not just dangerous but also risky for any young man or woman in our society today! The language therefore is...Hustle! Hustle!! Hustle!!!

Many young graduates who thought that life was a bed of roses during their undergraduate days are now becoming more of realists after being faced with the harsh realities of living without a job in a developing country like Nigeria where the citizens hardly enjoy any meaningful welfare package!!!

The truth is that there's nobody out there who doles out money to anyone so you need to get up, dust your ass and forge ahead! Below are some ways you can earn money as an unemployed graduate in Nigeria to take care of your pressing and immediate needs:

1) Freelance property Agent: You do not need a start-up fee or an office for this one. Just liase with big registered and trusted propery agencies and estate managers by bringing clients such as land buyers and people looking for accomodation. You can advertise your services via sign-posts or digital banners, placed in strategic places such as busy street and road junctions; make sure your contacts are clearly displayed. If any deal clicks, there's a certain percentage you collect from the estate managers/housing agents based on agreement. You see, you don't even need to move about like Johnny Walker . All you do is act like a sales person or a middle man that brings the clients to the agents! It pays!!!

2) Turn Food Vendors on Sundays: It shouldn't surprise you why I advise you turn a food vendor on Sundays. It is a fact that Nigerians are very religious people and as such, most shops, restaurants and business ventures do not operate on Sundays. Have you ever felt badly hungry on Sunday before? I guess you know how it feels. There are lots of bachelors and spinsters who hardly have time to cook due to work pressure and others who are just generally too lazy to do that. Cooking assorted types of food to sell on Sundays can help people who hardly cook. You can position yourself in busy places that you know you will be easily seen! I tell you today, if your foods taste good and are well-packaged, you are neat, friendly or jovial, people will patronize you. You can also cook and take to night clubs on Fridays and Saturdays to sell. Make sure you include the local delicacies in that area to your food menu. What I mean is that it shouldn't just be the normal rice, beans and 'dodo' stuff. For instance, if you reside in Warri, you should include foods such as Banga Soup, Ogwo Soup and Starch. Again, if your foods taste good and well packaged and you are also neat and friendly, people will patronize you! There's no shame in hustle!!!

3) Customize Shirts and Sell To People: You can also generate income through this means. Buy shirts in bulk; especially, Golf and Polo shirts and customize them with the names of family members, friends, neighbours, church members and some notable figures in your neighbourhood who you are friendly with. When people see their names already crested on the shirts, they won't have any other option than to buy, especially, when they have the cash. Since you are buying in bulk, you can buy the shirts for 800-1000Naira each and sell for 2.5k or 3k. You can be making a profit of 1.5k for every shirt you sell!!! . Take note that you will pay the person who customizes the shirts but still know it is cheaper when you customize in bulk!

4) Private Lesson/Tutoring: Dem say na 'bros I dey shame, bros I dey shame na e make guy man turn to beggar o! It should be better if you possess teaching experience or have a strong passion for teaching. You can talk to family members, friends, acquaintances, church members, etc, that are in the teaching field to connect you to parents who want private home lesson teachers for their children. Some parents pay up to 15k per child while others pay up to 10k!!! Sometimes, you teach 3 children for 20k-25k!!! If you have up to 3 or 4 different families who you teach their kids, do you know how much that is? You could be making up to 70k every month! Some bankers can't even boast of that as their monthly salary! I rented my first apartment with the money I realized from this; na wetin you nor know na e your mates take pass you o! .Take note please: If you don't have passion for teaching or you are not sound upstairs, please don't do this so that you don't end up turning an already poor-performing child to a complete Olodo!!!

5) Freelance Marketer: You must not own a business or be a producer before you market things. You can earn money as a freelance marketer for other people's product and get commission for your services. You would still have time to focus on other areas of your life since the establishments whose products you market did not directly employ you so cannot tie you down 24 hrs!!! You can liase with school owners during long holidays and win students over to their schools through oral personal adverts and practical demonstrations as new session begins for a particular fee!!! You can work as a freelance marketer for that boutique too!!!

Please, don't mind some of my terms and language in this post, I was raised in the streets of Warri...where we hustle everyday!!!

May God bless the hustle of every Nigerian graduate out there trying hard to make success and life a reality even with the intimidating obstacles that seem to abound!!!
WE SHALL OVERCOME IN THE NAME OF THE MOST HIGH!!! AMEN!!!

djcliff:
hmm good old days

Sure, you know how it was then!

There are some Nigerian soap operas and comedies that have always remained fresh in our memories...I can't forget some of them, especially, those in the early and late 80's and the early 90's!!!

I vividly remember how I used to sit with family members then, to enjoy these soap operas and comedies .

* I can't forget 'Behind the Cloud' (Nosa is one of the characters; heard he later died from poisoning

* What about 'Hotel De Jordan'? (House No. 13)

* 'Yab Me I Yab You' (Gringory and Clarus...I can't forget James Iruoha and Davis Ofor...and not forgetting Natee )

* 'Lagos Na Wa' (My guy, you go laff tire!!!)

* 'Tales by Moonlight'

* 'Pot of Life'

* 'The Village Headmaster'

Share yours Familylanders

donTbone:


R.I.P

Well, this is where praying for good health
superceeds wealth and riches!



Even the billions didn't cure the cancer!

Those who have all the organs working properly in their body should give praise to Jah, because money no dey, money no dey but life still sweet pass shawarma!!!

Davijunson:
well then..... I guess wealth doesn't guarantees good health. R.I.P to the dead.

We pray to God for long life and good health! Amen!!!

Rip to her!

...Lalasticlala

Nigerian billionaire, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has lost his niece, who is also is adopted daughter, to the cold hands of death.

It is reported that Dangote brought her up and trained her through University after Fatima Bello Dangote lost her father alongside Ibrahim Abacha in a plane crash in 1996. She lost her life in a private hospital in the United Kingdom on Friday after a 2-year battle with brain cancer.She was buried in London last week according to Islamic rites.


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nedu2000:
77 percent of nigeria women bleach?!thats quite high

So You didn't know all this while?

anonymous6:
I heard about this from Aljazerra and I think BBC a few years ago about bleaching in Nigeria, other African countries, countries in Asia(ex. India) and south america(ex. Brazil). I think the reality is that skin bleaching is the negative effects of colonialism in Africa sadly and it will take awhile before Africa comes to terms with it and address it then finally reject it. The funny part of all about this is that most of the famous Nigerians in the media and entertainment industry are dark skinned and dark brown black Nigerians who are good looking so it's funny at times that these women bleaching don't appreciate what they have but as I said before colonailism left a nasty affect in Africa and until that affect is wiped out skin bleaching will continue. I think those pictures of black african women who have skin damage as a result of bleaching is a good way to address it to black african women and some men that if they continue they will look a mess in the future. America did that with their anti-smoking agenda, they kept showing adds and commercials against smoking: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=anti+smoking+commercials
and guess what the commercials worked cause smoking reduced in America over the decades, maybe Nigerian/Black Africans need to start doing that.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usR-uTFc30g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5mfFbA2r2g

You are very correct. Reminds me of the drama,'The Blinkards', where Africans were ridiculed by the playwright for copying the British culture and throwing away their original African culture and heritage!

nerodenero:
Black isn't just a colour, it's an attitude. Embrace it!!!

True talk bro! Africans and especially Nigerians, need to be proud of their skin colour.

That doesn't affect the heap of rubbish Nigerian musicians dish out to the society every now and then!!!

classicB:
What are you trying to say?

Sorry, I thought you understood!

Magician1503:
I'm proud of my skin
Black and Bold
I'm made of Black

Black and proud here too!

Look what the lady in the 2nd pic has done to herself! Trying to become white!!!

Lagos, Nigeria - After carefully washing her face, legs and arms, Taiwo Solomon vigorously rubs cream over her body. She is meticulous and makes sure she covers her entire face. Soloman, 32, is bleaching her skin. She believes fairer skin could be her ticket to a better life. So she spends her meager savings on cheap black-market concoctions that promise to lighten her pigment.

This has been a daily routine for the past 15 years. Now several shades lighter she says her new skin makes her feel more beautiful and confident.

“Bleaching just makes me feel special, like am walking around in a spotlight,” she told Al Jazeera. “I am not seeking to be totally white, I just want to look beautiful. I cannot stop using the lightening agents,” she adds.

Solomon is not alone. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 77 percent of women in Nigeria use skin-lightening products, the world’s highest percentage. That compares with 59 percent in Togo, and 27 percent in Senegal. The reasons for this are varied but most people say they use skin-lighteners because they want "white skin".

In many parts of Africa, lighter-skinned women are considered more beautiful and are believed to be more successful and likely to find marriage.

It's not only women though who are obsessed with bleaching their skins. Some men too are involved in the practice.

Conceptions of beauty

Lightening creams are not effectively regulated in Nigeria where even roadside vendors sell tubes and plastic bags of powders and ointments from cardboard boxes stacked along sidewalks in market districts. Many of the tubes are unlabelled as to their actual ingredients.
 
In a market in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, business is booming for shops selling skin-lightening products. Both local and imported products line the shelves of Rashida Lawal’s cosmetics shop.

"About 90 percent of my clients come asking for skin whitening products," she told Al Jazeera. "I sell it to them and give advice on what product is best for them and how to use them."

She says most of her customers are in a great haste to lighten their skin.

“Taking the color of your skin to different colour has to be gradual. It's not something you decide one day that 'I want to be fair, I want to be like Michael Jackson and you become Michael Jackson all of a sudden'. That is why we have to advise them first before selling it to them” said Lawal.

Rashida and her staff also mix different ointments and creams for customers “depending on the desired level of lightness”.

Famous Nigerian Musician Femi Kuti says the use skin-lightening products have given rise to their own terminology.

“When the bleaching propaganda got so negative, they had to come up with toning. Bleaching sounds too hard, now it’s toning. I don't bleach, they say, I tone!”

“They think bleaching is gege,” he told Al Jazeera, using a Nigerian term for cool.

Femi attributes skin bleaching to a feeling that foreign products and images must, by definition, be good. 

“An African will prefer to be called John-Philip. If you said your name was Chukwu Emeka Afongkudong they will say you are from the village. You are backward. How can you have such a name? We really look down on our culture and heritage instead of being proud of it,” he laments.

Dangerous consequences 

Skin bleaching comes with hazardous health consequences. The dangers associated with the use of toxic compounds for skin bleaching include blood cancers such as leukemia and cancers of the liver and kidneys as well as severe skin conditions.

Hardcore bleachers use illegal ointments containing toxins like mercury, a metal that blocks production of melanin, which gives the skin its colour, but can also be toxic.

Ayobode Williams, a medical doctor, says the skin bleaching agents have both internal and external effects on those who use them.

“Systemically it causes things like kidney failure because of the mercury in some of the products and it also causes eczema, skin pigmentation among a host of other infections,” he told Al Jazeera.

Dr Williams warned that sustained use of bleaching agents could cause even cancer.

Yet few seem to pay attention to these dangers. For those who bleach, staying black is not beautiful at all.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/04/20134514845907984.html

Adaeze003:
Don't flatter yourself...

Says who? You?

Laveda:
Don't you think your next thread should be about advicing the guys? Maybe to stop spending

How many threads have you seen which a lady created and cried over being used or sometthing? Its always the guys bashing ladies....

Far from being a bashing...just an observation

Laveda:
funny...
The threads created everyday to bash women is too much....if she looks seductive..you guys should take your eyes off her

She shouldn't also complain when she's used by an assumed 'buoyant' bloke!

bluecircle470:
True talk dear

Reveal your identity

Laveda:
Don't mind them...they keep talking about one issue from jan to dec...yet, they still spending anyhow

I am a social writer and not part of the 'They'

Laveda:
if that's it then why all these threads? Everyone should go for his or her class...girls don't point gun @ a man's face before they give out the money they give it out freely

Their seduction surpasses the entire artillery of the Middle East, lest you be wary!

Adaeze003:
Crybabies everywhere...

Fa' bia kwa ozo! I have spoilt ur happiness

classicB:
Dnt mind them. I just SMH when these guys badmouth them prostitute and olosho......no be guys like them they patronise these girls? Let them stop patronising and they will see how matket go spoil for the girls.

You can go to school but you can't buy class! Not everyone is a slave to his sexual desires!

Laveda:
Good...they create threads everyday about girls who love money...who spends this money on them...still these guys here....same story everyday.....

Did u read the post properly? Not me; I am nice to hardworking ladies who know the value of work and money! . They reciprocate and have standards...there I can spend my money

classicB:
I dnt blame girls that wake up in the morning with the intention of playing a guy or form loving you for him just to get paid, i blame guys that dash out their hard-earned money to this kinda girls!! Stop paying for sex, cos most time the girl will agree to have sex only if the guy is ready to pay. Stop wasting your money. Happy sunday.

Let's first chase the fox away before blaming the goat!

adejaresalami1:
if I carry jerrycan go buy fuel nkor......ode oshi

Na generator get that one!

McCarlito:
Sure Partner.....

Make you nor go spend your entire September salary for inside bia bia bank o!

Badgers14:
Wahala dey oo

Kosi wahala

naijaboiy:
[color=#1980BC]Lol,,na the thread incite my kind reaction. [/color]

Sure, I got that

anigbajumo:
Chai,see Landslide vnishing....... seconded!!!