The Former Emir Of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II has vehemently denied the speculated abduction of his cousin insisting that all his family members are safe in their homes.

A National Daily had reported that one of the former Emirs Cousins was abducted along Abuja/Kaduna roads, however, the Former Emir refuted the Story saying all his family members are doing well.

The Former who spoke through a Telephone interview, said should the purported abduction happen, he will be the first person to release it to the media.

In any case, I expect the media more specifically those who wrote the story to get in touch with me to verify the story before going to the [ress and thereby endangering my family members.

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Report has it that the person allegedly abducted, AMINU Musa Abdullahi was the Son of a former Vice Chancellor Bayero University Kano Professor Musa Abdullahi.

The boy was said to have regained freedom from the kidnappers last night.

It might sound too good to be true, but believe me, there are apps that can help you make money. Truth be told, they may not make you rich, but they are sure to help you earn reasonable amount of money to pay for some of your bills. There are lot of apps you can download today to help you in your financial journey and some of them include apps for market research, mobile advertising, and so on.

It is imperative to note here that these apps could also be means for you to be scammed, especially, when you are requested to register with a fee or when the potential earning is over bloated.

These apps can be downloaded on your iOS and android phone where you can easily have access to them. The following are the ten best apps that can fetch you good money, especially, in this hard economy.

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Lets begin

1. WordPress

WordPress is the largest online platform which has over 30% of all websites powered by it. There are so many ways to make money online using WordPress. Few of them include:

Affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing involves the recommendation of a product or service to an audience using special links. For each purchase of the product or service through your link, you get a commission. This is the easiest way to make money as you would have to promote a variety of products on your WordPress platform.

Google AdSense. You can add a script from Google to your website, then, start displaying adverts. Anytime a user clicks on the ad, you will get paid. It is also called cost per click ads (CPC).

Build WordPress websites and sell to people. You can build a WordPress blog, boost it to get traffics, then sell it to interested entrepreneurs. In this case, you have to know the type of website that is trendy and in hot demand and how to price and sell them.

Sell sponsored blogposts. This happens when a company pays you for advertising their products or services on your blog.

Writing paid reviews. You can choose to promote peoples products or services by writing great and fantastic reviews on them and getting people interested in purchasing or using them. For each review, you are paid some cash.

2. Facebook

As the largest social media network worldwide, Facebook is a very good place to make money. In short, people are leveraging on Facebook on a daily basis and making cool bucks. You can consider starting a side business using Facebook, instead of just using your data for chatting, watching videos or killing boredom.

One of the best ways to make a positive impression of yourself is on your Facebook profile. Make your profile look catchy and attractive by using a good profile photo. In your biodata, give a fantastic description of yourself, your location (optional), contact website, and so on. As someone who is ready for business, your Facebook profile look business-like to attract the right customers.

You can sell anything on Facebook, except some prohibited stuff like alcohol, tobacco, firearm, gambling, illicit drugs, and others. Whatever that can be purchased at an offline store can be sold on Facebook. The good news there is that you must not have a shop before selling an item. Ways you can make money using Facebook include:

Write a good content. Good and catchy content is like honey that attracts the ant. As you dish out a good content, people will start noticing you and traffic will be directed to your Facebook account. With a good traffic, you can introduce products to your fans.

You could also create a live video and give lectures to people, while answering their questions and engaging with them.

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At this level, you have become a brand and an influencer on Facebook. Other Facebook users can leverage on your influence and advertise their goods on your wall. They can pay for the advertisement or you earn a commission based on the number of people that purchased the product through your influence.

Join some entrepreneurial groups. If you have products or services you want to promote using Facebook, there are some groups created for simply buying and selling. There is a feature on Facebook called Facebook Marketplace where anyone can trade anything. You can take your products to such a place. Also, some groups on Facebook have a particular day mapped out for advertising, you can leverage that to sell yourself.

Create Facebook ads. Facebook ads require opening a Facebook page. The good thing about this feature is that you can reach an audience based on their location, interest, gender, age, and other criteria. However, you may not be able to sell much if your products are not trendy and on-demand.

Become a social media manager. you can help to manage the Facebook accounts of prominent people, celebrities or organizations. By managing a corporate social media account, your duties include scheduling Facebook posts, responding to comments and inbox messages, monitoring ad campaign metrics, building an audience, and so on. This will earn you some money at the end of the day.

Apply for a job. Companies and individuals advertise for a job on their Facebook pages or using the Facebook job tab. You could see some of them on your newsfeed or when you use the search button. Whether part-time or full-time, you could be lucky to get a job. Furthermore, you can join some groups that list online job leads and find a suitable job.

3. Instagram

Instagram has, in the past few years, evolved into something magnificent through the endless feed of photos. With more than a billion users, entrepreneurs have learned how to penetrate their audience through Instagram. To make money on the platform, the following ways are sure to guarantee you success.

Become an influencer and build your brand. Get an impressively large number of followers with envious engagements. You achieve this by choosing a niche, growing your audience, and probably, partner with great brands. You can sell your products. If you own a business, selling on Instagram is a very good channel to market your products. Turn your audience into your customers by creating compelling content. In the same vein, you can get brands or business owners to advertise their products on your Instagram page through sponsored content.

Become an affiliate marketer. As an affiliate marketer, you can only make money when your followers buy the product. However, there is no stress of having to produce your own products.

As an influencer, it is good to know your worth and how much to charge for running an advert with a certain number of followers. Similarly, keep tabs on competitors. Social media monitoring will help you to stay on top of the game and beat your competitors. Be professional and do the right thing.

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4. YouTube

Most people think that the only way to make money on YouTube is via ad revenue. It might be the best and popular way, but it is not the only way. On a monthly basis, about 1.9 billion users log into YouTube; similarly, every minute records 500 hours of video uploaded to the platform.

Do not let that scare you as it cannot stop you from leveraging on the same platform to make your money. To achieve this, we have listed below steps you can cash out from YouTube.

Set up and build a YouTube channel. YouTube account serves the same purpose as a Google account. Add keywords that correspond with your content in order to enable people locate your channel easily.

After setting up and building your account, you are required to upload a content. The content should be of high quality and not so long. Ensure you regularly upload new contents.

To increase your monetization, build an audience. When people watch your content, you make money from it. Just make it catchy in order to keep them coming again and again. You can share it on different online platforms and also get your friends to help you share on their platforms to get peoples views. Respond to their comments and answer their questions.

Enable monetization by allowing YouTube place ads in your video. When you are able to get up to 1000 subscribers and 4000 watch hours within 12 months, you will start earning money from YouTube. This could be challenging, but when you master the law of engagement, it will be easier for you.

Set up a Google AdSense account at the AdSense website. A PayPal or valid bank account will be required of you, together with a valid email address and other personal information. Each ad click and view earns you money which adds up over time. Remember the more views it gets, the more your money increases.

To increase your revenue, you can engage in affiliate marketing. It has been explained above.

5. Money App

Money App is a market research app that earns you a financial token for completing a task. The tasks required of you to complete using these apps include playing games, offering opinions, testing services, checking store displays, participating in free trials, among the rest.

When you open an account on the Money App, your tasks commence as you accumulate rewards that would earn you money. The money earned is redeemed through a PayPal account. Within two to five working days, you are sure to redeem your money from PayPal, unlike other apps that can only pay once a month.