Options available to receive money online in Nigeria

How do you receive money online? What online payment options are available for someone living in Nigeria?

If you are earning money from the internet, desiring to start doing so or just want to receive financial support from friends, families and contacts around the world, being able to receive money online can go a long way.

After doing some research, I've found out some of the options available to Nigerians and have grouped these into two as follows:

- Global options
- Local options

Global options
There are payment options that allows people from all over the world including Nigeria to send money to you and you will be able to receive and confirm it and even withdraw it as real cash. Well, here are the options that can help you get paid online in Nigeria

- Alertpay
- Moneyboookers
- Western Union (Most popular)
- Plimus
- Liberty Reserve
- 2Checkout

Local options
There are online money options that are available to people who may want to pay you using local payment services and some of the ones I 've found out are:

- Interswitch
- eTranzact
- VTN
- Softpurse
- Fastecash

Summary:
So there really is no reason why you shouldn't be taking the internet seriously as a vital tool that can help secure you some financial income. When I say receiving money online, I am talking of funds that can accrue to you in an online account, you are able to view it and later be able to withdraw from it at your own time.