Make Money Online With your Phone in Nigeria (even as a Student)

All thanks to technology, which has made so many things easy for all. Today, the cell phone you possess can not only answer calls, chat, and play music, but it can give you money as well.

Once you can access the internet, it means you’re automatically connected to all the internet users all over the world. You’ll get to see so many people who need the service that you render. You’ll also see fresh opportunities to grab.

You may not be aware of the many ways you can make money with your phone, but you’ll know after reading this article.

How to make money with your phone in Nigeria

Online Freelance jobs

With your phone, there are series of freelance job offers you can do. Freelancing enables you to render certain services to different people anywhere in the world through the internet from your home.

You can be a freelance writer or offer so many other services such as programming, video editing, language translation, copywriting, researching, digital marketing, and so on. It depends on which of the skills you have.

You can offer these services through some freelance websites where people come to search for capable hands that could get their job done for them. These websites include freelancer.com, Asuqu, gigs Nigeria, Fiverr, Guru, Upwork, justfrom5k, and so on.

Run errands

You can comfortably run errands online with your phone and earn lots of money. You can run driving, domestic, or even delivery errands depending on the one most comfortable for you.

Driving errands

If you can comfortably drive around town, then here’s what you do to earn. Get your phone and visit the Google play store and download any of the apps that can connect you to people who need transportation services. You can log into the app and see people who want to move to different locations. Some of these apps include

Bolt app: once you have a good car(4 doors) and a driver’s license, you can register with bolt and take orders from people who need to go to different places. Bolt works well for many cities in Nigeria like Calabar. But for every drive across the town, you’re charged 20%. But notwithstanding, your earnings depend on how many hours you drive per day.

Uber: This is also another app that lets you pick people who need a ride. You need a driver’s license and a good car to begin. You can always log in to the app with your phone and see people who need your services. Uber gets 25% of every ride.

Lyft;  The app also allows you to take customers to their destinations but offering 30% of every ride’s pay.

Delivery errands

Ordered goods need to get to their endpoints. People don’t need to leave their activities to get other things done. That is where you come in.

You can help get ordered goods to their destination. Or help people get whatever it is across to another location.

You can run this kind of delivery errands for people with the help of your phone. All you need is to download certain apps or join certain delivery companies and get signals to your phone on when and where to go. You can deliver food, groceries, work tools, and so on and get paid. Check out these apps for it.

Door dash: The door dash app partners with different restaurants and eateries in Nigeria to deliver food to hungry customers. But you may need a good car, a valid driver’s license, and valid insurance, with your mobile phone that has the door dash app in it.

Instacart: the app allows you to see customers who need shopping and groceries services. You get to shop and do the delivery for them to get paid in return.

Domestic services

With your phone, you can help different people with their domestic errands and get paid in return. With the Ubuy app, you can complete some minor home tasks for people, especially those within Lagos, Nigeria. You can get hired through this app to offer some little handy jobs at home.

Run online Surveys

Many companies give rewards and also pay people who help them review new apps and products. For every information or answer you provide about new products, you get rewarded, either with cash or other gifts. There are many survey websites where you can join and make money with your phone. The most popular ones are

Branded survey: You can take survey questions, read emails, and test products to get points that can be exchanged for useful cash.

Survey junkie: it allows you to provide honest answers to different survey questions. They give you points in return which you can exchange from your PayPal account in Amazon and direct it to your bank account if you wish.

Others include Y sense, Toluma influencers, i-say, life points, my points, user testing. They all help test new products, provide genuine reviews, refer people to use products or even submit entered data. Once the survey is complete, you earn your points and exchange them for cash.

Selling online

A good way to make money with your phone in Nigeria is to sell online. There are different things you can sell, ranging from human products, food items, books, or even digital products like e-books, music, podcasts, and so on. You can also sell your old unuseful home gadgets.

Jumia

You can register with Jumia, one of the biggest African e-commerce markets, and sell whatever products you want. Register with the site by providing your details and participating in the free online training. Start receiving orders from online buyers with your phone and sell.

Amazon

Amazon lets you sell different items such as books, games, pictures, and others. Though you might earn through gift cards and not cash, you can exchange the gift cards for actual money. List your items on Amazon and win gift cards.

Foap

Foap is an app that helps you sell photos. All you need to do is take wonderful and selling photos and upload them. You have the chance to resell your photos as many times as you want so long as the customer is ready to buy. The app is free.

eBay

eBay allows you to list, monitor your items, and sell them. Most of the stuff sold here are game devices and old and unwanted products.

Snappy exchange

You can alternatively sell your gift cards through Snappy exchange. You can also buy and sell your coins, such as Bitcoin, Tron, Etherum, and others.

Perform minor online tasks

With your phone, you can perform some minor online tasks and earn. If you derive so much joy in playing online games or watching videos online, you can convert it as a money tool for yourself. You have been doing this all this while. How about you convert it to money this time?

Inbox dollars

All you need to do to earn with the inbox dollars app is to complete the task given to you. It could be to watch videos, play games, visit sites or take test questions.

Nielsen mobile app

To make money from your phone, download the Nielsen app and use your phone as always and you’ll earn $50 at the end of the year.

Slicethepie

Slicethepie pays you to drop a review for clients and to watch more videos on the site. It is one of the highest-paying review sites today on the internet. The more tasks you complete on Slicethepie, the more money you earn.

Rakuten

with the Rakuten app, you get 40% cashback for any online purchase you make.

Shopkick

get paid by scanning barcodes of items with this app.

EasyShift

The EasyShift app pays you to shop, snap pictures and take prices of a storefronts mystery shop.

Music Xray

You can get paid to listen to new music and rate it at Music Xray.

Invest online

People make lots of money today through investment. Making money with your phone is way easier now because you can invest any amount of money you want and get your interest regularly in due time.

Rise vest

It is an online investment app and site wherewith as low as $10, you can invest in foreign stocks and choose your investment duration. With the rise vest app, you can monitor your investment and get the returns in due time through the app, bank transfer, verve, visa, and master cards.

Invstr

It is a part investment app, part social network, and part fantasy game. It offers you the opportunity to learn how to invest through their fantasy game, and when you’ve learned, you can win money and invest too.

Piggy vest

this investment site has an interest rate of 10% per annum. Piggyvest takes a 5% withdrawal charge but allows you to choose amongst different investment options.

Carbon

It is a Nigerian investment site where you can invest in both local and foreign stocks. Initially, Carbon was called PayLater because it doesn’t only let you invest, but also offers loan opportunities to users. It has a good interest rate with no withdrawal charges.

Forex trading and saving Cryptocurrencies

You can trade on different Cryptocurrencies with your phone on apps like Binance. But due to how complicated forex trading might be, you may forget about it until you’ve learned the exchange market thoroughly. You can download any online wallet like trust wallet, buy some coins and save them up in your wallet.  When those coins appreciate, you can sell them and make your profit. It is a great way to make millions in a short time, though risky.

Conclusion

With your phone, you can invest, sell, perform minor jobs, run errands, enjoy your bubbies, and get paid. There’s no dulling moment as per money one you have your phone. Just choose From the numerous opportunities explained above and start earning today with your phone.