Jayanthi Phukan

Nigerians are without a doubt incredibly hardworking people that strive every day to survive. The inhabitants of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, are also included.

Given the high cost of living in the city and the difficulty of surviving in Abuja with only one source of income. Fortunately, people are increasingly using side jobs to supplement their regular income.

Here are a few profitable side businesses that Abuja citizens are engaging in to supplement their income and pay for decent living conditions.

Uber and Bolt are two well-known taxi-hailing services among Abuja residents. These are online taxi-hailing services that let commuters order cabs from any location. For many Abuja residents, these taxi-hailing apps have become a wonderful source of income.

There are many people with white-collar occupations who engage in these taxi services as a side business at the end of each day and earn considerable money from it, in addition to those who do it full-time.

Additionally, a lot of Abuja car owners pick up passengers in their vehicles both on the way to and from work. It is a tactic that enables them to recoup the money they lose due to daily gasoline expenses and other minor expenses.

In their numerous offices, many office workers offer a variety of items. This is a more typical form of side business practiced by Abuja locals.

Every office you visit will have someone peddling something, especially government ones. While some employees prepare snacks to sell at work, others market a variety of goods, including clothes, jewelry, shoes, and even food. Most often, they provide these products on credit, to be paid off when the buyer receives their pay.

Yea! Shopping Grocery, you heard us right it was not a mistake. People actually make a decent amount of income shopping groceries in Abuja.

Abuja is a busy metropolis and boasts of some of the country’s workforce. There are many hard-working business owners and professionals there who put in long hours throughout the week and occasionally on the weekends to make a living. These locals still need to go grocery shopping despite putting in long days at work.

In order to meet the requirements of others who do not have the opportunity to go food shopping due to their busy schedules, several Abuja residents have adopted the side business of grocery shopping.

This side business is quite simple. Obtaining the client’s order will allow you to simply go shopping for them in the market or other stores. You are paid a fee for the shopping, and some people can benefit from their skill at haggling by securing better terms for themselves. People work a side business in addition to their main jobs.

Home tutoring is undoubtedly a fantastic source of income, particularly for individuals whose day job is teaching. The majority of Abuja school teachers use after-hours home tutoring as an additional source of income.

Many home tutors use this side business to earn far more money than their normal pay with just two jobs. Appropriate time management and scheduling abilities are a crucial component that aids them in this endeavor.

Abuja has a bubbling urbane lifestyle that gives room for the business of running errands to thrive. You can easily acquire either a second-hand value motorcycle of full-option motorbike and customize it to a delivery bike.

A lot of people working in Abuja are top professionals who don’t have time for some errands, this is where you come in as a delivery person. Helping them pick up lunch from their favorite restaurant, parcel delivery, and pick-ups among many other handy logistics you can help them run.

Aside from individuals, you can also partner with online vendors to deliver goods or products to their customers. The good part is that you can schedule your work hours or get someone reliable to do the job for you.

Abuja is center of excellence, luxury, and power. The stupendously rich reside in this city. Five out of 7 mansions and residential homes in Abuja have a pool. If you know how to clean pools and sanitize them, you are likely to make really good money helping these homeowners clean their pools.

Network with people and also use social media to advertise your expertise. Pool cleaning is one of the highest-paying side-hustles in Abuja.

Abuja’s real estate market is booming, thanks to the sky-high prices of homes in the capital. People with strong sales and marketing skills are transitioning to part-time real estate agents, where they may supplement their income with the commission from closing real estate agreements.

To bottom line is that it will be hard for you to survive in Abuja with only one source of income. Abuja is bubbling with lots of opportunities with many thriving sectors. Engage in any of the listed side hustles and make good money for yourself. You can equally learn high in-demand skills to complement any job you currently have and position yourself for any opportunity Abuja presents your way.

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The dissidents declared that the Mahdi had arrived in the form of one of their leaders, Mohammed Abdullah al-Qahtani, and called on Muslims to obey him.

The seizure shocked the Islamic world as hundreds of pilgrims were taken hostage, and hundreds of militants, security forces and hostages caught in crossfire were killed in the ensuing battles for control of the site.

The siege ended two weeks after the takeover began with militants and the mosque cleared. Following the attack, the Saudi state implemented stricter enforcement of Islamic code.

The seizure was led by Juhayman al-Otaybi who declared his brother-in-law Mohammed Abdullah al-Qahtani to be the Mahdi. Otaybi was a preacher, a former corporal in the Saudi National Guard, and a former student of Sheikh Abdel Aziz bin Baaz, who went onto become the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia.

Juhaiman had turned against Bin Baz and began advocating a return to the original ways of Islam, a repudiation of the West, an end to education of women, the abolition of television and the expulsion of non-Muslims.

He proclaimed that the ruling Al Saud dynasty had lost its legitimacy because it was corrupt, ostentatious and had destroyed Saudi culture by an aggressive policy of Westernization.

Juhayman al-Otaybi

Al-Otaybi and Qahtani had met while being imprisoned together for sedition, and during that time al-Otaybi claimed to have had a vision sent by God telling him that Qahtani was the Mahdi.

Their declared goal was to institute a theocracy in preparation for the imminent end of the world. Many of their followers were drawn from theology students at the Islamic University in Medina. Other followers came from Egypt, Yemen, Kuwait, and Iraq, and also included some Sudanese.

They preached their message in different mosques in Saudi Arabia without being arrested as the government was reluctant to confront them.

In fact, members of the ulema questionned Otaibi and Qahtani, but they were subsequently released as being traditionalists and not a threat.

Because of donations from wealthy followers, the group was well-armed and trained. Some National Guard troops sympathetic to the insurgents smuggled weapons, ammunition, gas masks, and provisions into the mosque compound over a period of weeks before the attack.

In the early morning of 20 November 1979, the imam of the Grand Mosque, Sheikh Mohammed al-Subayil, was preparing to lead the prayers for the fifty thousand worshipers who had gathered for prayer.

Around 5:00 am, he was interrupted by insurgents who procured weapons from under their robes, chained the gates shut and killed two policemen who were armed with only wooden clubs for disciplining unruly pilgrims. Arms were also smuggled into the mosque in empty coffins to avoid detection.

The number of rebels has been given as “at least 500″ and “four to five hundred”, which included several women and children who had joined al-Otaybi’s movement.

Members of Juhayman’s group after capture

At the time, the Grand Mosque was being renovated. An employee of the organization was able to report the seizure to outside before the insurgents cut the telephone lines.

The insurgents released most of the hostages and locked the remainder in the sanctuary. They took defensive positions in the upper levels of the mosque, and sniper positions in the minarets, from which they commanded the grounds.

No one outside the mosque knew how many hostages remained, how many militants were in the mosque and what sort of preparations they had made.

At the time of the event, Crown Prince Fahd was in Tunisia for a meeting of the Arab Summit and then commander of National Guard Prince Abdullah was in Morocco for an official visit. Therefore, King Khalid assigned the responsibility to Prince Sultan, then Minister of Defense and Prince Nayef, then Minister of Interior, to deal with the incident.

Soon after the seizure, about a hundred security officers of the Ministry of Interior attempted to retake the mosque, and were decisively turned back with heavy casualties. The survivors were quickly joined by units of the Saudi Arabian Army and Saudi Arabian National Guard.

By the evening, the entire city of Mecca had been evacuated. Prince Sultan appointed Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, then head of the Al Mukhabaraat Al ‘Aammah (Saudi Intelligence), to take over the forward command post several hundred metres from the mosque, where Prince Turki would remain for the next several weeks.

However, the first order of business was to seek the approval of the ulema, which was led by Abdul Aziz bin Baz. Islam forbids any violence within the Grand Mosque, to the extent that plants cannot be uprooted without explicit religious sanction.

Bin Baaz found himself in a delicate situation, especially as he had previously taught al-Otaybi in Medina. Regardless, the ulema issued a fatwa allowing deadly force to be used in retaking the mosque.

With religious approval granted, Saudi forces launched frontal assaults on three of the main gates. The assaulting force was repulsed, and never even got close to breaking through the insurgents’ defences. Snipers continued to pick off soldiers who showed themselves. The mosque’s public address system was used to broadcast the insurgents’ message throughout the streets of Mecca.

An elite Pakistani unit called “Rahbar” was rushed to Mecca, under command of General Pervez Musharraf (then a Major) from Pakistan on Saudi Government’s request.

Masjid al Haram under attack

In the middle of the day, Saudi troops abseiled from helicopters directly into the central courtyard of the mosque. The Saudi soldiers were picked off by insurgents holding superior positions. After failure of this exercise, Pakistani commandos split/showered water all over the Grand Masjid floors even in minarets.

This situation was very surprising for the insurgents who did not know what was going to happen next. On having water all over the floors of the Grand Masjid, Pakistani Army Commandos released electric current in the water and insurgents suspended their activities and start changing their positions to save themselves from the electric shocks.

During this time Pakistani Army Commandos were dropped by helicopters into the Grand Masjid in different locations and they easily captured many of the insurgents alive.

Officially, the Saudi government took the position of not aggressively taking the mosque, but rather to starve the militants. Nevertheless, several unsuccessful assaults were undertaken, at least one of them through the underground tunnels in and around the mosque.

By 27 November, most of the mosque had been retaken by the Saudi National Guard and the Army, though they suffered heavy casualties in the assault.

In the catacombs under the mosque, however, several militants continued to resist and tear gas was used to force them out. Several of the top militants escaped the siege and days later sporadic fighting erupted in other parts of the city as authorities tried to capture them.

The battle had lasted for more than two weeks, and had officially left “255 pilgrims, troops and fanatics” killed and “another 560 injured … although diplomats suggested the toll was higher.” Military casualties were 127 dead and 451 injured.

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