While Nigerians are busy complaining about Chinese vehicles, a quiet group of mechanics, engineers, and entrepreneurs are building serious income…
Browsing: Freelancing & Remote Work
There is a version of success that looks fine from the outside but feels hollow on the inside. You wake…
Introduction There is a particular kind of frustration that comes with buying a domestic flight ticket in Nigeria today. You…
My aunt called me sometime in January — not to check on me, but to ask if I knew anyone…
OPay, PalmPay, and Moniepoint have quietly become some of the most powerful financial companies operating in Nigeria today. They generate…
I remember the first time someone paid me to write. It was 2019, I had just finished my National Youth…
Oluwaseun spent three months sending applications to Fiverr buyers, Upwork clients, and LinkedIn connections. Every rejection, when he got a…
Nigerian freelancers who depend on a single platform are one algorithm change away from an income crisis. Here are the…
Kemi had been earning between $1,800 and $2,400 per month from two US-based clients for almost fourteen months when her…
The moment my friend Chidi handed in his resignation letter at the bank, he told me he felt like a…
My first Fiverr gig description was embarrassing. Not because the skill was weak but because I spent four paragraphs talking…
When Chioma first told people in her family that she was leaving her ₦180,000 monthly bank job to freelance full…
I spent three years bouncing between these platforms, watching my proposals disappear into the void on one, undercutting myself on…
So you just landed your first international client. Maybe it is a content writing gig on Upwork, a design project…
There is a conversation that happens in almost every Nigerian household at some point. It usually goes something like this:…
When I first heard about freelancing, I thought it was one of those “online money” things people post about on…