The Nigerian business ecosystem may not seem as favourable as you desire but without any doubt, it houses tons of thriving businesses. In Nigeria, a good deal of offline businesses or activities count as verifiable ways of making money.

However, some people do not find the Nigerian physical business environment any suitable. Therefore, such people have transitioned to differing online activities that align with their skills or competencies.

Inasmuch as Nigerians gravitate towards online businesses and find them lucrative, we definitely can’t deny that the online ecosystem contributes to the growth of money-making ideas in Nigeria.

Despite that online businesses have gained huge momentum in Nigeria, hardly can we shy away from the fact that offline businesses are still very much relevant in the country. Not every Nigerian fancies the idea of working online and so it is unsurprising that lots of Nigerians still search the internet for ways they can make money offline.

In view of that, we’ve been stimulated to find out the top 10 verifiable ways Nigerians can make money offline in 2022. Notably, some of these money-making ways are purely businesses that require capital for startup while few others are more or less offline activities that can fetch you a reasonable income.

1.Begin Tutorial Class for School-ready Kids

If you have a knack for imparting knowledge to others, you may consider rendering academic services as a private tutor. This could be the decent job that will hardly cost you a whole lot of money or resources to start. All you need is mastering the right approach for marketing yourself to the parents of your prospective pupils. This tutorial class idea is very likely to work because in Nigeria, many average citizens want education for their kids but cannot afford the supposedly expensive fees that many private schools charge. Your own cheap tutorial class might just come as the befitting alternative for such parents to give their children education.

By the time you’ve comfortably attracted several school-ready kids, you can take advantage of that to persuade the kids’ parents to refer their neighbours’ kids to you. Once this works out with many more school-ready kids enrolled for your tutorial class, you may consider renting a sizeable space for running a school. If this pans out as expected, you’re most likely on the brink of starting your own school.

2. Become a Mini Importer

Mini importation is undisputedly one of the trendy offline businesses in Nigeria. Except you haven’t mastered the right strategy for plying the business, mini importation is certain to earn you a reasonable income in Nigeria.

Broadly, how this mini importation business works is by importing goods –such as shoes, bags, wristwatches, clothes, electronic gadgets, etc. –from a foreign country and selling them in Nigeria. To make robust success with this kind of business, you must figure out the country from which you can buy and import your desired commodities at very cheap rates.

Although depending on your desired commodity, mini importation is something you can start with less than #150,000 in Nigeria. But before you venture into mini importation as a route to make money in the country, try to first arm yourself with in-depth information about how to succeed in the business. In this regard, you can either learn from an experienced mini importer or search the Internet for well-written e-books about mini importation.

You might consider reading this complete guide on How To Start Mini Importation Business From China, Uk, Usa And Europe To Nigeria

3.Venture into Transport Business

This is another offline and verifiable route for making money in Nigeria. It is a route that has attracted lots of Nigerians due to its ever-auspicious probability of profitability.

Nigeria is home to myriads of densely populated cities, making it a fact that transport business will always yield profit across Nigerian cities. Even without any knowledge of driving, you can start this transport business but in this case, you must be ready to hire somebody to drive your commercial car or bus.

If you already have a car or bus that can operate commercially, there might be no need for startup expenses. All you need to do is either choosing to drive on your own or hiring somebody to drive on your behalf. If the latter is what you consider satisfactory, be ready to negotiate your daily or (usually) weekly allowance with the driver. In Nigeria, it could be risky to have somebody drive your car/bus for you and that is why you must have thorough information about your prospective driver. Find out if he is the right person for engagement in terms of competence, experience, attitude, level of maturity and overall personality.

4.Start Printing and Selling Recharge Cards

Printing and sale of recharge cards is one of the commonest offline ways to make money in Nigeria. This is because we can’t deny the fact that many people in Nigeria still rely on printed cards for loading airtime onto their phones.

If you’re interested in this kind of offline business, try to connect with those who supply recharge cards. Depending on your capital, you may opt to combine printing with selling or simply engage in selling alone.

We recommend that you consider selling airtime vouchers (recharge cards) of all the popular network providers in Nigeria. Although this business fetches you very meagre profit from each unit of recharge card sold, it is definitely one way you can make reasonable profit in the long run. This is simply because recharge cards sell fast in Nigeria and provided the business is sited in a heavily crowded business area, you’ll likely sell lots of vouchers daily.

There’s the widespread impression that sale of recharge cards isn’t profitable enough and as a way of augmenting their profit, many recharge card sellers in Nigeria operate in a diversified manner. Simply, they combine recharge card sale with various other trades. You too can do that if you’re pretty certain that you have sufficient capital.

5.Open a Restaurant or Eatery

Food business has always remained one of the most flourishing ventures that you can ply offline in Nigeria. Without any doubt, one of the reasons for this is that tons of Nigerians prefer to go out and purchase ready-to-eat food rather than cook by themselves.

With food business still thriving in Nigeria, one is certain to find at least one eatery or restaurant in any crowded business axis in the country. Whether your capital is large or small, you can start and run a food-specific venture of your own in Nigeria.

Depending on your capital, you can launch any of large-sized and mini restaurants in Nigeria. If you possess excellent culinary skill and believe you can commit ample time to the business, you may choose to partake in the business as a cook. But if it’s the other way round, you definitely need to hire cook(s) for the business.

Except when sited in the wrong location, your restaurant or eatery business is certain to rake in profit in Nigeria. Since restaurant/eatery business depends heavily on location for it to yield profit, you must research thoroughly about the best location for your restaurant or eatery.

6.Venture into Sale of Used Items

This is really a verifiable way to make money in Nigeria simply because many Nigerians prefer cheap second-hand items to new but expensive items. Provided they can be assured that the second-hand items are authentic, lots of Nigerians will be ready to buy them in place of the new ones.

If you can site your business in the appropriate location and build a network of customers from friends, relatives, neighbours, etc. you’re very likely to succeed in this business path. Meanwhile, the good thing about this business of selling second-hand items is that you can buy a used gadget at a cheap price and resell at a moderately higher price.

Some of the items you should consider are fairly used phones, pressing irons, electric cookers, laptops, standing fans, etc. In this line of business, you should ascertain that the item you’re buying from somebody is in good condition. Also under seemingly risky circumstances, you may demand that intending sellers provide receipts serving as evidence that they are the real owners of what they are about to sell to you.

Location-wise, this business of reselling second-hand gadgets is expected to thrive in any area dominated by students of higher institutions in Nigeria.

7.Become an Event Planner

If you have a knack for helping others organize ceremonies, you’re very likely to do well in the field of event planning.

Event planning is one of the lucrative service-based routes for making money offline and in Nigeria, lots of people are ready to pay others for the planning of their events.

Depending on your expertise, capital and certain other factors, you may choose to plan all kinds of events or simply restrict your scope of planning to a specific type of event. If you can fit into the role of a general event planner, you may be hired to plan a variety of events including love feasts, weddings, funeral ceremonies, year-end parties, birthday parties, etc.

You’ll definitely need capital to begin event planning simply because it is a venture that thrives on wide publicity. In simple terms, you need to extensively publicize your event planning business via different means such as a website, a social media network and a billboard. You’ll also need to acquire enough space for setting up an office as part of what enables you to appear professional in front of prospective clients.

Complimentary cards may form parts of the other elements for the adequate branding of the event planning business.

8.Run a Poultry Farm

Although a capital-intensive route, poultry farming is one of the flourishing ways you can make money offline in Nigeria. Anyone familiar with how festive seasons –Christmas, New Year, Easter and Muslim Eids –are celebrated in Nigeria can testify that myriads of Nigerians buy full-fledged chickens during these seasons.

As a poultry farm owner in Nigeria, you can earn a few thousands of naira on each full-fledged chicken sold during festive seasons. Compared to certain other businesses involving animal rearing, poultry farming has the advantage of quick returns because chickens grow very fast.

Interestingly, another advantage is that the eggs of poultry creatures are in high demand thereby allowing you to rake in profit from the sale of poultry eggs.

9.Render Dry Cleaning Services

Unarguably, dry cleaning business is one of the easy-to-run offline routes for making money in Nigeria. This is because you don’t need any special skill to operate as a drycleaner. All you have to do is gathering together the resources that let you set up the business in a suitable location. Capital will likely be required especially for acquiring a business space and purchasing business equipment –pressing irons, tables, washing machines, etc.

Except when sited in the wrong location, dry cleaning is certain to thrive in Nigeria. In terms of location, you have to consider areas with a sizeable population of formal businessmen, banks, corporate organizations, etc. More often than not, people working in banks and other corporate organizations do not have the luxury of time to always dry-clean their dirty laundry by themselves.

After establishing yourself as a dry cleaner, you should consider marketing yourself by means of complimentary cards, business banners, etc. Try also not to disappoint your customers. Treating these customers well may encourage them to refer friends or relatives to you for dry-cleaning purposes.

10.Operate as a Phone Repairer

This is most probably a distinct route from the other offline monetization routes in this post simply because you need to have acquired the skill of phone repair before you can accurately repair phones.

Nevertheless, phone repair is a skill you can acquire in relatively short duration. Also, you needn’t acquire huge capital before you can set up yourself as a phone repairer in Nigeria.

Anyone passionate about unraveling technical problems –whether software or hardware-related –in phones can take advantage of phone repair to turn their passion into a profit-yielding activity. All that is needed is committing adequate time and effort to the mastery of phone repair.

Conclusion

At this juncture, we believe you’ve been adequately fed with information about some of the verifiable ways you can make money offline in Nigeria.

For any of these offline monetization paths you intend to tread, we advise that you do your findings and master the strategy for succeeding.