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Join the 1% in Nigeria | Book 1

Name: Join the 1% in Nigeria | Book 1
Author: John Okparaeke

Most Nigerians will never see a ₦1 million alert. Here's how you will.

Your salary lands on the 25th. By the 10th, it's gone.

This book shows you how to build a ₦1 million monthly income one layer at a time, starting with what you already have: a phone, a skill, your time and very little money.

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You Are Not Lazy

You wake up early, work hard, and follow every rule. But one salary in today's Nigeria cannot carry rent, transport, food, black tax and your future.

By one 2025 survey, fewer than 1 in 100 Nigerians earn ₦1 million a month. This book shows you how to join them, one income layer at a time.

No rich uncle.

No loan app.

No japa.

No "double your money" scheme.

Every method in this book can be started with what you already have: a phone, a skill, your time and very little money.

Inside, You'll Learn How To

Raise your first business capital through ajo, esusu and adashe at zero interest
Find grants and youth funds that don't need to be repaid, and avoid the fake ones
Sell goods from Balogun, Onitsha and Kano markets without buying any stock
Get paid every month by salons, schools and shops to run their social media
Earn big commissions connecting buyers to houses, cars, land and solar
Turn what you know into lessons, CV services and video courses that sell while you sleep
Use the Igbo apprenticeship system to learn a trade and get settled into your own business
Build a page on TikTok, Facebook or Instagram and sell something on every post
Move to better-paying jobs and make your savings earn for you in money market funds and FGN savings bonds
Stay at ₦1 million once you get there

Every chapter ends with a 7-Day Move

Simple, specific actions for this week, so you finish each chapter with something to do, not just something to think about.

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Table of contents: Read This First to Chapter 11 — The contents: four parts, from the wake-up call to selling what you know.

Table of contents: Chapters 12 to 19, and the opening of Read This First — Read This First: written for the Nigerian earning under ₦100,000 a month.

Chapter 1, The ₦1 Million Alert Is Closer Than You Think, opening page — Chapter 1: The ₦1 Million Alert Is Closer Than You Think.

Chapter 1 pages comparing Babatunde's month with Chinedu's four income layers — Same bank, same desk, same salary: Babatunde built one pillar, Chinedu built four.

Chapter 2, Raise Your First Capital Without a Loan, opening page — Chapter 2: how ajo, esusu and adashe can put ₦100,000 to ₦300,000 in your hand at zero interest.

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Read This First

Part One: The Wake-Up Call

1. The ₦1 Million Alert Is Closer Than You Think
2. Raise Your First Capital Without a Loan
3. Free Money Nobody Told You About

Part Two: Your Phone Is a Shop

4. Sell Goods You Don't Own
5. Shop Owners Will Pay You to Post
6. Get Paid for Connecting People
7. Earn From Products You Never Made
8. Small Data, Steady Alert

Part Three: Sell What You Know and What Your Hands Can Do

9. Your Brain Is Somebody's Answer
10. Help Job Seekers Get Hired
11. Serve a Master, Then Become One
12. The Trades Nigeria Is Begging For
13. Your Kitchen Is a Business
14. Beauty Pays Every Weekend
15. Build a Page, Sell on Every Post
16. Record It Once, Sell It Forever

Part Four: Climb Higher and Stay There

17. Change Jobs, Change Your Life
18. Make Your Money Work While You Sleep
19. Life at ₦1 Million, and How to Stay There

Notes and Sources

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This Book Is For You If

You earn under ₦100,000 a month and you are done waiting for “e go better.”

The complete series

The Join the 1% in Nigeria Series

Three books, one climb: your first extra income, then dollar earnings, then businesses you own. Each book stands on its own, and together they take you all the way.

Book 1

Join the 1% in Nigeria

Build your first income layers from what you already have: a phone, a skill, your time and very little money.

You are on this book

Book 2Next up

Earn in Dollars, Spend in Naira

Land foreign clients and get paid in hard currency, without leaving Nigeria.

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Book 3

Stop Hustling. Start Owning.

Turn your side income and savings into businesses that keep paying you.

Get Book 3

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Physical Paperback Edition

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Read it on your phone, tablet, laptop, or Kindle and start your first 7-Day Move today.

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About the Author

John Okparaeke is an author and software developer. His books focus on practical, structured systems for real life: clear frameworks and exercises you can put to work the same day you read them.

Frequently Asked Questions

You can choose a physical paperback or a digital edition. The paperback is sold through The Great British Bookshop and printed and fulfilled by BookVault, with worldwide shipping. The digital edition is delivered instantly through Gumroad, to read on your phone, tablet, laptop, or Kindle.

19 chapters in four parts, plus Read This First and Notes and Sources. Every chapter ends with a 7-Day Move: simple, specific actions for this week.

Very little, and some methods cost nothing at all. Every method in the book can be started with what you already have: a phone, a skill you already know or can learn, your time, and very little money.

No. No loan app, no japa, no "double your money" scheme. It shows you how to build several income layers step by step, and it takes real work. The figures in the book are examples, not a promise of results.

Yes. This is Book 1 of the three-book Join the 1% in Nigeria series. Book 2, Earn in Dollars, Spend in Naira, shows you how to get paid by foreign clients. Book 3, Stop Hustling. Start Owning., covers the businesses that turn side income into lasting wealth.

The 30-day money-back guarantee applies to the Gumroad digital edition. Paperback delivery, returns, and replacements are handled under The Great British Bookshop policies.