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Elections are very keenly contested in Nigeria; they are often a do or die affair. To win elections in Nigeria, you should be ready to deploy a lot of resources like money, people, material and time. Whether we like it or not, political positions are seen as business ventures in Nigeria. Most politicians contest for elections just to win and start making money for themselves, the members of their families and cronies.

How can you explain that Nigerian politicians kill themselves just to win elections? Why will a politician sell all his assets, take bank loans and do everything possible to ‘serve his people’? Why will Nigerian politicians arm thugs and criminals to maim and even kill their opponents? Why will an old politician who is obviously very sick and weak want to keep himself in power for as long as possible? Let us face the fact, I doubt if we can get more than 10% of politicians in Nigeria who are really willing to serve Nigerians and not their pockets.

Nigerian politicians have deployed a lot of tactics to win elections in the past. I will discuss these manipulative and controversial strategies below.

Strategies rogue politicians use to win elections in Nigeria

Raise cash

If you think you can win elections into top political posts in Nigeria without deploying massive cash, then you are just deceiving yourself. Politicians deploy as much as N20 billion just to win governorship elections. A politician who won a House of Representatives position told me that he used over N2 billion to fun his elections.

To win the primary election of your own party, you may need to spend billions of naira. Some Nigerians know how dollar bills were flying around during the last presidential primary election of a popular political party in Nigeria. A popular former Governor was alleged to have spent over N15 billion for the primary election alone.

For primary elections for positions like House of Representatives, the politician may need to put the primary elections delegates in a hotel overnight, entertain them and buy them the foods and drinks they want. Putting them in a hotel is a strategy to make them inaccessible to his opponents. The politician drives them to the primary elections venue in the morning; he would have settled them with cash before taking the delegates to the primary election venue.

Cash will also be needed for campaign cars, campaign buses, recruitment of foot soldiers for campaign purposes, doling out of cash to unions and the masses, logistics, advertisements and other logistics needed for campaign.

During the main elections in Nigeria, it is not uncommon to see party delegates giving cash to voters in exchange for voting for their candidates. This is done in public and nobody really cares. In the one of the gubernatorial elections in a south western state in Nigeria, party officials were at almost all the pooling stations giving cash ranging from N2,000 – N5,000 for every voter who votes for their candidates. This strategy was called dibo ki o sebe (vote and cook soup for yourself). It is a strategy that has worked well in Nigeria, the highest bidder always wins. Most of the people who vote in Nigeria are the poor masses and because poverty and illiteracy, they will rather trade their votes for money.

You will also need money for ‘stomach infrastructure’.

Play the religious card

This is common in the core northern part of Nigeria, because of the high illiteracy rate in this region; politicians easily deceive them with religion. Politicians bribe community and religious leaders to tell their subjects that voting for an opposition candidate who professes another religion is tantamount to disobeying God and this may lead them to hell fire.

In the core northern part of Nigeria, you see crooked politicians especially the male one trying to be very holy and religious in public. Some may not even shake the hands of females to the delight of poor masses who have been brainwashed with religion. These politicians will never educate their people because they know that once they are educated, they will be emancipated from the deceit of their leaders. Instead, they tell them to continue to suffer on earth but that their main reward is in heaven.

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Once your website appears in the first page of search engines like Google, you get more traffic and you can convert the visitors who view your website into customers. Ideally, more visitors to your website lead to more profit, if you can efficiently convert the visitors to buying customers.

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Do you know that excess application of nitrogen especially nitrates can ruin your chances of making money from cucumber farming. Excess nitrogen makes the leaves of your cucumbers big and very soft. Fungi hyphae will be able to penetrate the cells easily. Excess nitrogen is also an invitation card to all manners of destructive insects and diseases.
As beneficial nitrogen is to plants, it can also be very destructive is used without caution. Some humates like humic acid and fluvic acid can reduce the harmful effects of excess nitrogen.

The power of blogging is often underestimated. Check most websites around, you will see that they do not have blog sections.

All my clients who added a blog section to their websites saw a significant increase in the number of leads they got. Once, you add fresh and well researched articles or posts to your blog frequently and you know how to do search engine optimization and content marketing, you will smile to the bank.

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Pepper is a vegetable eaten by almost everybody in the world. Pepper farming is one of the most profitable businesses in Nigeria and other countries of the world. Just like tomato farming and cucumber farming, pepper farming can be very lucrative.

The most popular types of pepper eaten in Nigeria are habanero pepper, cayenne pepper, chilli pepper and sweet pepper. Nigerians call these types of pepper atarodo, shombo, ata ijosi and tatase.

Farmers who engage in pepper farming smile to the bank year in, year out.

How to make money from pepper farming
To make good money from pepper farming, you must take the below steps:

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Amazon Kindle is a platform used for the publishing of books. The books published on Amazon Kindle are sold through the Amazon ecommerce website.

Amazon Kindle has completely disrupted the ways traditional publishing houses publish books. Today, you can publish books on Amazon Kindle within minutes and start to sell your books to people living in the US, UK, France and over 40 countries of the world.

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Cucumber farming has gained ground in Nigeria. Most educated people starting out in farming prefer to try cucumber farming because of its money making potential.

Cucumbers are water filled pod like fruits that grow on vines. The leaves of cucumber plants are broad. Cucumber plants start producing fruits after 40-60 days of sowing of their seeds.

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I recently asked a group of young graduates about the business or endeavour they will like to add to their day jobs, I was shocked when almost 90% of the class chose blogging.

Why blogging you may ask. People see blogging as a very easy work you can do on the side, but the truth is that over 90% of the blogs in Nigeria today do not make money.

Making money from blogging is an easy task if you know the technical know-how and you can be patient for few months. Unfortunately, most Nigerians who go into blogging just think that if they post few articles on their blogs, money will start to flow in.

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