Since Outlier is not open to people in Nigeria, here is something for you.
I put together a list of alternatives currently paying Nigerians for AI training, annotation, research, and micro-task work.
These platforms range from beginner-friendly tasks to expert-level AI roles.
1. Micro1 AI
→ Pay: $20–$50/hour
→ Focus: AI jobs for analysts and domain experts
→ Requires interview before project matching
→ Link: https://t.co/wv2QqNAr6R
2. xAI (Grok AI Tutor)
→ Pay: $35–$65/hour
→ Focus: Training Grok AI, improving reasoning, tone, and responses
→ Link: https://t.co/OwDfBhAlfb
3. Mindrift (by Toloka)
→ Pay: ~$300/week depending on workload
→ Focus: AI tutoring in fields like law, medicine, writing, etc
→ Link: https://t.co/QfRg0cghZC
4. Pareto AI
→ Pay: $35–$60/hour
→ Focus: Expert-level AI training roles
→ Link: https://t.co/TTTmNleYtE
5. OneForma (Pactera Edge)
→ Pay: $7–$20/hour
→ Focus: AI evaluation, UHRS tasks, prompt rating
→ Very active for Nigerians
→ Link: https://t.co/cbtgpPKAJL
6. TELUS International
→ Pay: $10–$25/hour
→ Focus: Annotation, rating, and content evaluation
→ Link: https://t.co/374b5kuAFd
7. DataAnnotation
→ Pay: Starts around $20/hour
→ Similar to Outlier-style work
→ Nigerian access may vary
→ Link: https://t.co/LZl3jTmaI5
8. Clickworker
→ Pay: $3–$15/hour
→ Focus: Writing, research, and UHRS microtasks
→ Link: https://t.co/Xk9P7oeW3i
9. Appen (CrowdGen)
→ Pay: Around $3/hour depending on project
→ Focus: Social media evaluation and transcription
→ Link: https://t.co/mzWsoNqnZv
10. Toloka AI
→ Focus: Small AI tasks like relevance scoring and detection work
→ Beginner-friendly
→ Link: https://t.co/NNFD36Nlwt
11. Remotasks
→ Owned by Scale AI (same parent company as Outlier)
→ Occasionally opens projects for Nigerians
→ Link: https://t.co/25Hlo6iigO
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One of my greatest mistake in Life as a Farmer is being a FARMER.
I shouldn’t have invested in a sector that is dependent on Government policies and bottlenecks.
In my line of business,there’s no escaping Government inefficiencies.
Nigerian Government will do everything in agriculture except solving problems.
For more than 20 years farmers have been saying that we suffer seasonal Glut because we simply cannot individually afford Machinery for Egg Pasteurization.
Government will listen to our complaints, lie that they are coming up with a NEGPRO scheme and go ahead to simply do the opposite of what was agreed.
With high Electricity and Gas prices, investors are guaranteed not make their money back as Egg powder produced in Nigeria will fail to compete with Global market.
Companies will rather import than buy made in Nigeria raw materials.
State Governors are worse, they simply have no clue of what to do outside of using fertilizer as a political tool.
They have refused to build or sustain any critical infrastructure (Dams, Health and safety of animals, meaningful collaborations or Training)
The CBN under Emefiele refused to allow the Bank of Agriculture to do its job.
With the growing insecurity and policy missteps farmers in Nigeria have little to no incentive to continue to run or grow their businesses.
Don’t go into Agriculture, it’s simply not worth it.
Earlier yesterday on Easter Sunday;
Terrorists attacked Ariko community in Kachia, Kaduna State.
They invaded two churches during the Easter celebrations. They murdered at least 7 people and kidnapped many others.
This was just yesterday.
Yet the whole country is unbothered.
Michael Carrick wrote about this experience in his book, ‘Between the Lines’. It wasn't a nice narration.
He wrote about how difficult a footballer’s life is and how that trip wasn't convenient for many of them.
His description of Nigeria and Abuja in that book was scathing.
He wrote about some Policemen breaking a photographer’s camera and beating him for taking a picture of them. He said he yelled after them.
“They grabbed him, jabbed him
in the ribs and dragged him round the back of the hotel. ‘Whoa, what’s up?
It’s only a picture. We never saw him again. It was all a bit over the top,” he wrote.
In another paragraph, his words were;
“the whole experience in Abuja was like being trapped in a horror film”.
Read his conclusion;
“The trip lasted only 16 hours, but Abuja’s effects lasted longer. I vomited
for a week, but some lads had it far worse. They were so sick that United
sent a sample off to some university and, I’m not kidding, they found
monkey and rat shit in the sample. The university docs said they’d never
seen anything like it before. So, no, I won’t remember Abuja happily and I
can’t imagine the other lads will either. Those are the type of souvenirs you
don’t want to bring back from tours abroad.”
It was the last time any big team was in Nigeria. Eighteen years ago.
We will learn one way or the other.
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