5 uncommon professions that can earn you a living in Lagos

Some of these opportunities result in professions that are not normally viewed as common; however, they pay quite a lot.
Wondering what these unusual employment opportunities may be? Jumia Travel shares 5 uncommon vocations that can earn you a living in Lagos.

Voice-over artiste

So many adverts are shown on TV and radio on the regular with voice overs from different people. Who do you think are behind these voice overs? Celebrities? Not necessarily. Ad agencies and companies regularly hire and pay voice-over artistes for such tasks as dubbing for the television and audio productions, creating online books and audio files amongst other things.
These artistes can actually make as much as N50,000 for just 5 minutes of recording. If you have a great voice and you love reading from books and other textual matter, you can try this out.

Personal Shopper

Lagosians love fashion and no matter how broke they claim to be, a majority of the city’s residents will still shop till they drop. The thing, though, is that most of these people who can afford to shop so much, do not have the time or the skill per say to go out shopping for what they need to create the style they are looking for, they instead need personal shoppers to do the task for them.
Personal Shopping, though uncommon, is one of the easiest jobs to have in Lagos. The job is probably for people who like to shop all the time and it pays good money too.

Toll Booth Collector

Nobody ever thinks of this job when seeking for employment really, but if you don’t mind sitting in a cramped tin room and collecting money from people all day long, this certainly can be a dream job. From the highways to shopping malls and centers, toll booths are found all over Lagos and all a toll booth collector has to do is sit around in the tiny room, collect money from people driving off to better places.
The perk is that you could get tips from people who want to brighten up your day. The good thing is you can even just decide to work just night shifts and do something else in the day time. While this seems like a lazy job, it pays quite handsomely for the little work you do.

House-Sitting

This job which literally involves babysitting a house, mostly luxury homes, may seem far-fetched for Lagos , but it really is not. A number of people who own houses within the city either live in other countries or travel a lot and need people to tend to their houses while they are away. It is not common to find houses in Ikoyi area and Banana island, including VGC being occupied by house-sitters.
The responsibility of a house sitter is such that he/she ensures that when the homeowners are away, they safeguard the space, most times, living in their home like it is their own and getting paid for it.

Dog walker

Lagosians, especially those who live in highbrow areas like Ikoyi, Victoria Island, Lekki and VGC, usually have a lot of things on their plate and barely have the time to groom, train or walk their pets. They employ dog walkers to help tackle that responsibility for them.
While the mere mention of a dog walker as a source of real money will come as a joke to many, there are people who do earn a living out of this job in Lagos and making good money. Keep in mind though that this job is basically best suited for people who are in love with animals and have the patience required.

Egypt cancels January friendly with Super Eagles

The Egypt Football Association has cancelled its proposed friendly match with the Super Eagles of Nigeria in January, following alleged disagreement with the Nigerian authorities on match expenses.
The Egypt FA, it was gathered, are not willing to bear all the expenses for the game as was demanded by Nigeria and have even gone ahead to fix another game with Tunisia about the same time.
The friendly between Egypt and Nigeria was billed to be played on January 9 in Dubai to prepare the Pharaohs for the AFCON in Gabon.

It has now been revealed that the Egypt vs Nigeria clash may have fallen through because the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) are demanding their Egyptian counterparts bear their entire expenses and also because the Super Eagles will not be at full strength for this match.
“It has not yet been officially confirmed but it is looking very likely that the friendly against Egypt in Dubai in January will no longer hold,” a top official informed.
Reacting to the rumours yesterday, the NFF insisted that it is still committed to January date for the friendly match, stating that it has not been officially community by the Egypt FA.
“We have not received any message to that effect as at today (Sunday) from the Egypt FA. I don’t know anything about that”, stated the General Secretary, Mohammed Sanusi.

The race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination is now open

By Election Day , ambitious Democrats had already resigned themselves to an eight -year wait for their chance in the national spotlight . Hillary Clinton was an overwhelming favorite against Donald Trump and, assuming she won , running a primary challenge against her in four years would be a fool’ s errand .
Then Clinton lost.
Although this most stunning upset in modern presidential history has produced ( and will produce ) a thousand aftershocks , one of the most unlikely and important is that the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 is now open .
That opening is made all the more remarkable by the fact that there is simply no logical heir ( or even heirs ) to President Obama or Clinton — no obvious candidate waiting in the wings to step forward and rebuild the party. Vice President Biden appears to have decided that he is done running for office . As a two -time loser , Clinton is done , too . And after that , the bench is , well , pretty thin .
Politics , of course , abhors a vacuum . So candidates will run . Here is a look at who they might be:
Sen . Cory Booker: Booker has been a national figure since the mid - 2000s , when he was elected mayor of Newark. His résumé — football at Stanford University , a Rhodes scholarship — is impressive , and many Democrats see the young ( he’ s 47) , charismatic, African American U . S . senator from New Jersey as the second coming of Obama. But the campaign that Booker ran for the Senate in 2013 was more competitive than it should have been largely because of his shaky performance . He may start the 2020 race as the front -runner , but he still has lots of questions that need answering .
Sen . Kirsten Gillibrand : Gillibrand may be the most logical heir to Clinton in the 2020 field , but it remains to be seen whether that is a good thing . When Obama chose Clinton to be secretary of state, Gillibrand was appointed to her Senate seat in New York and then won two subsequent elections to hold the seat, thanks to rock- star- level fundraising . Gillibrand , according to the New York Post, is already feeling out some of Clinton ’ s major donors about what comes next for the party. At 49, Gillibrand is one of a handful of women primed to be the next generation of female leaders for Democrats .
Sen . - elect Kamala Harris: Harris will not officially become a U . S . senator from California for more than a month, but she is already regarded as national-candidate material in four years . It is not hard to see why . She is the first African American woman elected to the Senate since Carol Moseley Braun in 1992. Harris also represents the largest and most Democratic state in the country , a huge financial launchpad to a presidential bid . ( Through mid -October , Harris had raised more than $13 million for her Senate candidacy . ) Her law - and-order background — she was elected and reelected attorney general in California — also will appeal to many Democrats . Whether Harris wants to — or will be ready to — run for national office so soon after being elected to the Senate remains to be seen .
Gov. John Hickenlooper : The Colorado governor was almost Clinton ’ s vice -presidential pick this time around . And in a field filled with Washington types , the governor of a swing state in the West could have real appeal . Hickenlooper also has a terrific life story — a Denver brewery owner who became mayor and governor — and a down -home demeanor that screams , “ I am not a politician . ” Hickenlooper ’ s biggest problem as a candidate may be that he is viewed as too moderate for the current Democratic Party. But some governor ( Missouri ’ s Jay Nixon? Delaware’ s Jack Markell?) will run for president , and , at the moment , Hickenlooper seems first among equals for that role .
Sen . Amy Klobuchar : Like Gillibrand , Klobuchar is an accomplished and ambitious senator who cuts the sort of profile that should put her in the mix for 2020. Unlike Gillibrand , however , Klobuchar represents Minnesota — not exactly a fundraising hotbed for a national candidate . But she has a very interesting legislative background — she worked with Rep . John Kline ( R -Minn . ) on ensuring veterans got the leave benefits they were promised before deploying , and she is a leading voice on adoption in the Senate.
First lady Michelle Obama : Let ’ s say this first : The soon - to - be-former first lady has never run for elected office and, to date , has shown absolutely no interest in doing so . But let ’ s also say this : She gave the two best political speeches of the past two years — the first at the Democratic National Convention in July , the second in New Hampshire in the fall , an emotional condemnation of Trump ’ s America . Obama has one thing — with the possible exception of Booker — that the rest of the people on this list lack : true star power . She would start the race not only totally known by base Democrats but also absolutely beloved . The issue for Obama is that being a candidate in your own right is very different from being a surrogate for a candidate .

Buhari moves to replace Osinbajo as VP

The war between President Muhammadu Buhari and the national leader of the All Progressives Congress may have taken a new dimension.
The President is planning to replace Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as his running mate in the 2019 presidential election, reports The Point.
Tinubu was said to have singlehandedly
nominated Osinbajo for the position of Vice President in 2015.
Buhari is said to be planning to replace Osinbajo with a politician from the South-east.
Buhari plans to woo a former governor of Abia state, Orji Uzor Kalu, as a possible replacement for Osinbajo.
It is rumoured that the recent defection of Kalu to the APC is a prelude to his nomination as Buhari’s running mate in 2019.
It was gathered that Buhari decided to take the step in order to win over the South- east and perhaps South-south blocs in the event that the South-west zone withdraws its support for him in 2019.
President Muhammadu Buhari had a few days ago confirmed that he will seek a second term in office during the 2019 presidential election.
Buhari;s confirmation came a day after a former Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) member, Buba Galadima said Buhari would be abandoned by the people if he decides to contest in 2019.

MMM participant commits suicide in Enugu

A final year student of agricultural engineering at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, who is also reported to be a participant of the Mavrodi Mondial Movement investment scheme (MMM), has committed suicide,
Premium Times reports.
the student, identified as Tobechukwu Okeke was found on Sunday morning, November 27, dangling from a rope in his room at Odenigwe, a community in Nsukka, Enugu state.
The deceased was said to have left a note behind where he apologised to his family, according to accounts by a neighbor close to the family.
The contents of the note read: “Mother, Father, brother, I’m sorry. Ify, may your children never suffer. Uncle Mathias, you gave me all. I am sorry. Death calls. Linguistic department, I am sorry. Okeke Tobechukwu S. 2012/185649,” the neighbour, who did not want to be named, quoted
Though the cause of Okeke’s death is yet to be ascertained, some of his neighbours suggested that he was in debt, some said he was tired of schooling, others attributed his suicide to the loss of money in a network business he invested into according to
Naij .
The deceased's last Facebook posts showed he had been involved in the controversial MMM scheme as he used his account to advertise the scheme.
His last post, in September, read: “MMM is enriching lives of millions of Nigerians everyday. If you care to join or you have any questions please send me a message or comment below.”

Linda Ikeji rejects $2m partnership investment

Acclaimed Africa’s biggest blogger, Linda Ikeji, has turned down the sum of two million dollars ($2m) partnership investment into her recently launched social networking site, Linda Ikeji Social (LIS).
According to a reliable source inside the Linda Ikeji Media brand, Linda, 36, turned down the deal after owning up to her team that she is oblivious of the value of $2million in her new business since it is a new brand.
The investors were said to have proposed to own a percentage of the new social networking site for the value of $2million after seeing how fast the site is catching on.

The investors suggested that she use the money in massive advertisement for the new brand and for technical support but Linda turned it down.
Another source close to Linda Ikeji revealed that this is not the first time she will turn down a major investment into her online business, as few years ago, she also rejected a major seven digit investment into her blog which has eventually paid off as she currently enjoys the enviable position as Africa’s richest blogger.
Within only three weeks of launch, the Linda Ikeji Social networking site has received over 150,000 sign ups and has continued to grow steadily.
According to Global Tech Monitoring Site, Alexa, Linda Ikeji Social is currently listed as one of the most visited sites in Nigeria; it has become a favorite among young people because it is currently the only social media network platform in Nigeria that rewards its users with mouth-watering weekly prizes including cash gifts.

Presidential aircraft crashes in Makurdi

According to unconfirmed reports, one of the aircraft handed to the Nigerian Air Force by the Presidency has crashed at the Nigerian Air Force base in Makurdi.
The Agusta AW 101, one of the presidential jets recently handed over to the Nigerian Air Force was a medium-lift helicopter specially designed for military operations.

It reportedly crashed due to poor training of crew members who manned its operation.
After the handover, the aircraft was repainted from the initial white and green to camouflage.
Reports reveal that damages to the jet were significant but no life was lost to the crash.