I just learnt today that Nigerians living abroad hire lesson teachers from Nigeria to coach their kids going to school in the new environment where they just migrated.
One of the reasons driving this market of hiring a lesson teacher from Nigeria to teach a child living in the UK is because it is cheaper and more affordable to do so because of the exchange rate.
300k, for instance, is less than $200, so a lesson teacher living in Ogbunike, my village, and earning 300k for teaching just one child in the US, Igbo, biology, and chemistry is earning good and eating good too.
With that $200 budget, you can’t get a decent private home tutor in the US.
And there exist many Nigerian lesson teachers with clients living abroad, and their job description is simple.
Wake up, prepare your lesson notes, log into Zoom, coach your students, log out, sleep, and the cycle continues the next day.
Some of these lessons teachers have 3-4 students living abroad that they coach every month, and some of them go home with 500k every month when converted to our local currency.
A lucrative hustle it is.
Internet has democratized access and has made so many things possible.
Interesting times we live in.
