There are lots of affiliate marketing programmes out there but not all are worth your time. Some platforms demand you to own a PayPal account which is restricted from Nigerians, thereby making it hard to receive your money after earning.
In this article, we have curated some of the best affiliate marketing programmes in Nigeria, how to get started with them and their mode of payment.
If you don’t know what affiliate marketing is, we have explained that in a previous article on how to start affiliate marketing in Nigeria. You can read it in a new tab and come back to this one when you are done.
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Best Affiliate Marketing Programmes Nigerians can Join
1. GrowthPal affiliate programme
Niche: Business services
GrowthPal is a business to business (B2B) service provider that helps other businesses with marketing solutions, CAC registrations and compliance services.
As a GrowthPal affiliate, you earn commissions when you tell businesses around you about the benefits of getting registered with the corporate affairs commission. When a business owner registers their business through GrowthPal using your affiliate link, you earn 10% of the registration fee.
GrowthPal affiliates also earn commissions from services clients they refer purchase within 6 months, such as compliance services, website design, or marketing solutions.
2. MIVA affiliate Programme
Niche: Online education
Miva is an accredited open University that offers both bachelor’s degree programmes and MBA programmes in selected courses. Sim Shagaya who also founded Konga and uLesson founded the Miva Open University in 2023.
The Miva Open University affiliate programme currently pays ₦20,000 when you refer a student who enrolls and pays the school fee. Miva allows students to pay their school fee twice; if a student you refer pays the first installment, you earn ₦10,000 and another ₦10,000 when they complete the second installment. You do not earn any commission for subsequent fee payments.
Miva pays these commissions directly into your Nigerian bank account.
3. Shop Inverse Affiliate Programme
Niche: Gadgets (Laptops, tabs and accessories)
Shopinverse is a Nigerian brand that sells majorly foreign used computers, tabs and brand new accessories. They have a physical store in Lagos for customers who want to buy in store, however, they sell and deliver nationwide through their website.
The Shopinverse affiliate programme offers 5% commission for every successful sale affiliates make through their referral link or coupon codes.
If affiliates have an issue with receiving their commission, they can raise a ticket via email or send a complaint in the Shopinverse Telegram group.
4. Oraimo
Niche: Phone accessories and electronics
Oraimo is a mobile phone accessories and smart electronics appliance brand present in 50 countries. In Nigeria, Oraimo is well known for its durable power banks, earbuds and fast phone chargers.
Oraimo has a tiered affiliate marketing system where affiliates are not just rewarded commissions for the sales they make, they also earn a percentage from other affiliates they have referred into the system.
As an affiliate of Oraimo, you earn 5% commission when customers purchase products through your affiliate link. You can also refer your friends and colleagues to register as an affiliate and you earn 4% indirectly from the sales they make.
5. Stakecut
Niche: Make money online
Stakecut is an affiliate marketing platform that lets course creators easily sell their courses by connecting them with affiliates. Although any kind of product can be sold on Stakecut, most of the products currently on the platform are make-money-online courses.
Affiliates can register on Stakecut for free, pick a product that they think will be valuable to their audience and start promoting. The amount of commission earned per sale is decided by the course creators.
Course creators also hold contests for affiliates in order to woo them into promoting their products more actively, offering incentives like cash prizes, mobile phones, laptops, or even cars to top-performing affiliates who drive significant sales.
6. Selar Affiliate Programme
Niche: General
Selar is an African e-commerce platform primarily designed for creators to sell digital products, courses, and services to anyone in the world. It supports multiple currencies (e.g., NGN, USD, GHS, KES, GBP) for seamless cross-border transactions, with payments automatically converted to the seller’s local currency.
Selar offers an affiliate marketing programme where affiliates can promote products and earn commissions, with creators setting custom commission rates. The Selar affiliate programme costs N3,000 annually.
To get started with the Selar affiliate programme, you first need to create an account and then subscribe to the annual affiliate plan. This gives you access to thousands of digital products you can promote to your audience.
7. Expertnaire
Niche: Make money online
Expertnaire is one of the pioneer affiliate marketing platforms in Nigeria. The idea is to let experts create and list high-value digital products, such as online courses, ebooks, and tutorials while connecting these experts with an army of experienced affiliate marketers who promote these products to their audiences, earning commissions of up to 80% on each sale.
Just like Stakecut, the amount you earn for a sale on Expertnaire depends solely on the discretion of the course creator.
Affiliates on Expertnaire are expected to pay and maintain an annual subscription fee of ₦10,000 to use the platform.
After signing up on Expertnaire, affiliates can visit the products marketplace and begin promoting the products to their audience.
8. Konga
Niche: General
Want to buy anything online except from human beings? Check Konga. Konga is an online marketplace for virtually everything. As an affiliate in any niche, you can promote products sold by merchants on Konga for a commission.
The amount you will earn depends on the category of goods you are promoting. Some categories like phones and tablets have commissions as low as 1-1.5%.
The Konga affiliate programme is free to join and commissions are sent to your KongaPay account, which can then be transferred to your bank account.
9. TravelStart
Niche: Travel
Travelstart is an online travel agency that simplifies the flight and hotel booking process, car rentals and vacation packages for mostly African and middle eastern travelers.
With TravelStart, travelers do not need to visit the individual websites of airline companies to book their tickets. Travelstart aggregates the price of flight tickets to different locations, making it possible for travelers to find great deals.
The TravelStart affiliate programme is a great way to earn money if you are in the travel and tour niche. The company pays 2% on base fare for domestic flights and 3.5% on base fare for international flights.
Base fare is the cost of the ticket before taxes, fees and surcharges.
If a customer uses your affiliate link to book a flight ticket from Abuja to Enugu for ₦227,000, perhaps the base fare here is ₦155,000, TravelStart will pay you 2% of ₦155,000 since this is a local flight (₦3,100).
Join the TravelStart affiliate programme for free.
10. Wakanow
Niche: Travel
Wakanow is another popular travel booking website in Nigeria. Founded in 2008 by Obinna Ekezie, a former Nigerian professional basketball player, Wakanow has grown from a website focused on simplifying travel bookings to a website where travellers can plan their entire travel itinerary.
Wakanow has an affiliate and a referral programme; both programmes are quite different. In the referral programme, a commission of 0.25% is paid for every successful sale while the affiliate programme may offer more tools to earn from Wakanow and probably a higher commission structure.
You can sign up for the Wakanow affiliate programme here and the referral programme here.
11. Impact
Niche: General
Impact is a marketing network that lets business owners integrate affiliate marketing into their business and also gives them (business owners) access to a network of affiliates who are ready to promote their products or services to an engaged and targeted audience.
Affiliate marketers can sign up on Impact to get access to a wide range of products and services. Although Impact accepts affiliates from Nigeria, most of the products you will find on Impact appeal to European and American audiences.
As an affiliate from Nigeria, if you have a good number of foreign audiences, you can sign up on Impact, find a product that appeals to your audience and start promoting.
Getting approval into the Impact affiliate marketing programme is easy but you also need to apply to promote the products of each business on Impact. When you apply, the business owner checks your profile to see if you are a perfect match for them, they approve based on certain criterias.
Before applying for Impact, make sure you
12. Shareasale
Niche: General
Shareasale is similar to Impact. It is one of the oldest affiliate marketing networks in the world. It was founded in the year 2000 and acquired by Awin in 2017.
As a Nigerian affiliate, getting approval for a Shareasale affiliate account is not as easy as the other affiliate programmes in this article.
When applying for a Shareasale account, affiliates are asked for links to their website, YouTube or social media handles. These links are usually reviewed to verify the quality and authenticity of the content before an account is approved.
Once approved, there are a lot of products and services to promote to your audience. However, you need to apply to each business individually within the ShareASale network, and each merchant must approve your application before you can start promoting their offers.
Just like Impact, the products on ShareASale appeal more to the American and European audience.
13. Amazon Associates
Niche: General
Amazon is the biggest E-commerce platform in the world. They sell everything from Electronics, to clothings, perfumes and even books. No matter your niche, there is a suitable product for you to sell to your audience from Amazon.
Through the Amazon Associates programme, Nigerians can join as affiliates and earn commissions from each sale. The Amazon Associates commission ranges from 1% to 10%, the rate depends on the category of products the sales come from.
Getting approval to this programme is quite easy, however, associates are expected to make sales after a certain period, typically within 180 days of signing up, by generating at least three qualified sales to maintain active status in the programme.
Which Affiliate Marketing Programme Pays the Most?
Although the affiliate marketing platforms that pay the highest commissions in Nigeria are StakeCut, Expertnaire and Selar, as creators can set commissions as high as 80%, the GrowthPal affiliate marketing programme offers better prospects as affiliates earn 10% from not just the first sale, but every other services purchased by referred clients within 6 months.
Affiliates can earn as high as ₦200,000 from a single client they refer to GrowthPal.
How do I get paid in Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate marketing programmes that are based in Nigeria pay directly to your Nigerian local bank account while foreign based platforms have the options of either paying to your domiciliary account or PayPal.
Due to the PayPal limitations in Nigeria, we strongly recommend that you open a USD domiciliary account to receive your payments or use platforms like GeeqPay or Grey to get a free US bank account number which works with most foreign based affiliate marketing programmes.
Thank you for reading our article on the best affiliate marketing programmes in Nigeria. You can also read our article on how to open a business bank account and business ideas for rural areas in Nigeria.
