Canada, United State and United Kingdom are some of the best countries which Nigerians do travel to for job opportunities and other lucrative side hustles. Once you travel to any of these countries your family members will be expecting more from you. People believe that those who travel out, have a lot of money, as such put pressure on you. Many of them remit money home to Nigeria regularly and are the main earners in their extended families. This expectation makes residents of these countries to work hard, some take up to 2-4 jobs in other to meet up. There are side hustles that can actually give you a lot of money when you engaged in them. In this post, there are top 7 lucrative side hustle for Nigerians in the UK, USA and Canada. Anyone, doing these side jobs can reliably save 100k extra or more per month.
7 Lucrative side hustle for Nigerians in UK, USA and Canada
- Childcare
It is a job that provides care and supervision for children when their parents are not around. The children workers operate in schools, private homes and hospital. Childminding is also known as childcare, which is very profitable because people pay a lot to get their children cared for while they go out to work or other engagements. A Nigerian working as a private childcare earns up to £200 from four families in a day. She collects £50 per family for the period they would be absent. Just imagine they are up to 6 children, that would be huge you know! Officially. in the UK, childcare is £4.5 per hour, a mother who has 3 kids pay £13.5 per hour whereas Nigerians who owns childcare facility will charge £50 until you go to work and come back. There are a group of women doing childcare in Leeds, Manchester etc. And you will not see any immigrants taking their wards to official day-care but rather patronise these group of women. All the women do is to post the services on the WhatsApp groups and people negotiate.
Nanny is another good one, those working as Nanny, charge $20 per hour, you can make $100 a day if you stay up to 5 hours. Lucrative side hustle for Nigerians in UK.
2. Photograph
Someone may say in this era of smart phones? dey play!. Smart phone cannot take over digital cameraman lens, it doesn’t have accessory and capacity a normal camera has. It is very lucrative especially in a place like Canada, as people needs photos at events for memories for themselves and family members. This can fetch CAS200 within 30 minutes, someone says, it pays more than regular 9 t0 5 jobs. Some photographers do give quotation of CAS200 to CAS1000 for one hour shoot. People still do photography in spite of phones. An account of somebody’s friend who did maternity shots recently, 500 wad was charged for 10 edited photos.
3. Catering
There is a popular woman who travels from Nigeria to UK for decoration and catering job. She earns massively, imagine a Nigerian doing this side hustle job either in UK, USA or Canada. Just like we celebrate birthdays, child naming, house warming, marriage anniversary, wedding reception etc in Nigeria equally the people outside Nigeria do same. Imagine getting additional CAS100 from this service.
4. Hair dressing/braiding
This is a very lucrative skill in the UK, just to weave your hair you will pay heavily. You can add this as a side hustle, the days you are off or having night shift you can do hair dressing. To do kinky twist or Senegalese twist is $180-$350 while a million braid is $400. Yes hair braiders charge $400 per head, some of them have salon and employ others.
5. Phone and laptop repairs
This is a good side hustle, you can earn up to £40 in the UK fixing phones and Laptops. Many people do full time in a warehouse, care homes, stewards, security, customer care or work in restaurants and bars. In Canada, you’re employed into sectors such as; food processing, manufacturing, packaging, construction, service industries. At such side hustle will be a back up.
6. Food delivery
It is lucrative, you can arrange your schedule to know the number of deliveries you can accommodate per time. Also, it can be importation of foodstuff and distribution of products. A delivery is $20 per hour, I knew people who are doing networking business in UK and USA, selling health products, I supply to them because I’m into the sales of effective herbal stem cell products made from African herbs and roots. These people are making it big, many of them have won awards. And they sell the products times 10 the cost price.
There is a family in the USA, who do food delivery as their major source of income. They cook and deliver the food and are invited to Nigerian parties and events. In Africa food store, you can now buy snacks like; plantain chips, chin chin, akara prepared in the USA, UK etc.
7. Software
Software or ICT is another good job to add to what you are doing. Someone built a software in 2020 while in the USA and currently has more than 4000 subscribers. Do not over look this skill if you are good at it. Some persons are inborn with certain skills,
Conclusion
Nigerians who wants to Japa are wiser now, they are learning how to do manual work, like; mobile car wash, cooking food and selling from home, landscaping, computer wiring/network set ups, auto mechanics, sewing clothes, shoe repairs. There is a woman who sells Nigeria food, when customers go to pick she is always busy. Many of this people don’t pay some of the taxes, and it is the best self employed jobs which by extension makes one an employer of labour. For those leaving in the HOA environment you will be weary out of the business, although it is good for those who wants to send their children to good schools. You can move some pools away.