How five Nigerian families are closing widening income gap

From Uber driving and POS businesses to online tutoring and home-based catering, households are building new income streams to bridge the widening gap between wages and living costs.

The family that turned school fees into capital

"I turned my children's school fees into business capital." Few financial decisions are more difficult for Nigerian parents than moving their children from private schools to public schools. For Usman Bello and his wife, it became a business decision. Usman, a 44-year-old federal civil servant i

                            *From Uber driving and POS businesses to online tutoring and home-based catering, households are building new income streams to bridge the widening gap between wages and living costs.*

The family that turned school fees into capital

"I turned my children's school fees into business capital." Few financial decisions are more difficult for Nigerian parents than moving their children from private schools to public schools. For Usman Bello and his wife, it became a business decision. Usman, a 44-year-old federal civil servant i