10+ Lucrative Ways To Make Money During Your NYSC Year

The compulsory NYSC service year is a time most new graduates get to experience a glimpse of the real world, while the Nigerian government pays them about 49,800 Naira monthly. Many of them take the period to acquire new skills, others focus strictly on the jobs they’ve been assigned to carry out by the government, some go the extra mile to record achievements in their serving communities, 

which make them stand out from other youth corps members at the end of the NYSC service year, while a few others go on to build remarkable businesses that will eventually employ many of the other NYSC youth corps members. With thousands graduating from the universities yearly to add to the pile of unemployed graduates in the country, how can you make the most of the compulsory single-service year? What should you pay attention to? And ultimately, how can you make money during your NYSC service year? If you’re in doubt and are looking for how to make money during your NYSC service year, here are 10 businesses you can start:

1 ) Private Lessons:

  This is a very common and convenience practice among Corps Members especially those teaching in schools. You can meet with parents and/or your principal to plan and schedule for extra lessons. Apart from the usual evening lessons, you can also plan for holiday classes. You can opt to prepare students for JSSCE, WASSCE, JAMB Examination, NECO, GCE, Post-UME by arranging for a centre and collaborating with other Corpers

 2 ) Photography:

  If you have a standard still or motion camera, it's necessary to carry it along to your state of deployment. Events are hosted regularly and opportunities to earn extra income during weekends or when off primary duty are numerous.

 3 ) Writing :

There are many opportunities for good writers. You can work conveniently as a freelance writer online by applying on freelancer or fiverr to bid for writing jobs. Apart from online writing jobs which may not be quite easy to secure, you can assist undergraduates write their project for a fee or write for local publications or journals and earn some cash. Also Read: How to pass out successfully.

 4 ) Agriculture:

  While in orientation camp, prospective corps members detest the thought of being posted to remote areas. Some will grudgingly accept it while some will lobby to be reposted to the city. Serving in a local area has its advantages, one of which is access to fertile and cheap farm land. Some corpers do take advantage of this and invest in Agriculture. Fish farm, Poultry farm, rabbit farm, crops planting, etc are kinds of farming corpers indulge in and they reap bountifully from such lucrative investment.

 5 ) Fashion Design and Tailoring:

 For those that acquire design skills or tailoring while in school or before starting school, this would really pay off. You can start by advertising your skills in various CDS clubs to your colleagues. I sew my clothes with a corper and he was quite good in his craft. Most people in my CDS patronized him.

 6 ) Digital Graphics Design:

  In the course of studies in school, you may have done graphics designs and become good at it. Don't waste such skills while servicing. be creative and promote it and you'll be surprised at what could become of it. 

 7 ) Retail Sales:

  If you conduct a feasibility study in your environment, you can identify a need and satisfy. By so doing, you will earn extra cash income. you can deal on shoes, wristwatches, phone accessories, etc.

 8 ) Music Performance For good singers and instrumentalist, you don't need to be told about making money with your talent. Musical events are very common especially in Southern Nigeria and your skills is quite lucrative.

 9 )Sell On Online Marketplaces:

 Finally, you can buy and sell items on online marketplaces like Jumia, Konga, Payporte, and a whole lot more. By doing this, you don’t get to pay for web hosting, online advertisement, website design, and several other maintenance costs that can eat deep into your business. Instead, you get to focus on buying and reselling the products that people want, at the cost of nothing. To figure out what products are selling, you can go to Konga and look at the average number of sales an item has. This way, you can have an idea of what people want to buy, and then try to sell those type of items. If you don’t have money to buy products, you can first confirm what items people buy the most, then take pictures of items owned by a business you can strike a deal with, upload them online, and broker the sales for a commission, pending when you can afford to buy your own products.

10) Help Students Write Their Research Projects:

Most final year university students always have problems writing their research projects. It gets cumbersome for some, especially those who are not entirely academically sound or do not wish to risk failure. To ensure they can get a professional paper written, they tend to outsource them to individuals and businesses who focus on writing research projects.

As a youth corps member, you could market your professional research project writing service to university students and use a large part of your one year to write and deliver a bulk of them.

With final year projects costs going anywhere from 50,000 Naira to 150,000 Naira per project, successfully writing and delivering between 10 to 50 research projects at a price of 50,000 Naira each, during your NYSC year, can enable you generate anywhere from 500,000 Naira to 2,500,000 Naira in revenues.

If you’re able to build a wide network across universities and get 100s of students to commit their final research project writing to your organisation, you could hire several hands and make anywhere from 3,000,000 Naira to over 10,000,000 Naira during your NYSC service year by just writing research projects for final year students.