12 Secret Santa gifts under ₦5000–2021 Edition

Lade Tawak
An Afro and a Hat
Published in
3 min readDec 4, 2020
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It’s that time of the year where you have to buy gifts for people you don’t know well.

It’s been 4 years since the last guide. In that time, the exchange rate has gone from about ₦360/$1 to ₦500/$1.

As always, we’ve compiled a list of things you can get online AND for ₦5,000 and under. Also, many of these vendors ship nationwide

1. Hair, Beauty, and Skin Care Products & Tools [from ₦1500]
Various vendors including: Abebi Organics, Tojuwa, Natural Nigerian, Kinky Apothecary, Arami Essentials, Cocoshe Beauty, Ojuoge Cosmetics, and Keramel Naturals

Skin and haircare products L-R: Abebi, Arami, Natural Nigerian

2. Jewellery and accessories [from ₦2000]
Clutches, shades, necklaces, earrings… You’ll find variety. Haute Signatures, Styled By Ufy, Davana Jewelry

L-R: Davana, Styled by Ufy, Haute Signatures

3. Art Supplies [from ₦1000]
I only found one vendor for this: from Artz Mania

4. Books [from ₦1000]
You can get books from The Book Dealer NG, and Roving Heights. For faith based books and journals, The Book Vendor is your plug.

5. Fabric, socks, briefs, and clothing [from ₦1500]
Get socks, custom t-shirts from Smiley Socks Co, Wii Creates, or Zai Store; fabric from The Ankara Dentist; or ready to wear clothing from The 5k Shop

L-R: Zai Store, Ankara Dentist, Nazkara

6. Knick Knacks, and household and decorative items [from ₦1000]
Your plugs are: The Souvenir Whisperer, Who Go Make, and Zia Store.

7. Nigerian Heritage Colouring Book (₦5000) from AfroColour

8. Lined notebook (₦3500) from What Dami Did

L-R: Nigerian Heritage Colouring Book, Lined Journal from What Dami Did

9. Custom Mugs from Printivo [from ₦3500]

10. Candles, Incense, Diffusers [from ₦2500]
The only vendor we found in the range was: Indulge.

incense, candles… all from Indulge

11. Miniso [from ₦1000]
For everything you can possibly think of. Including everything else on the list

12. Gift Cards (from ₦1000) from Sure Gifts
SureGifts has a lot of Supermarkets, Restaurants, Spas and others or you could get a generic SureGifts gift card that they can redeem from whatever store they like.

Bonus items:

  • Netflix subscription
  • Apple Music, YouTube Music or Deezer subscription.

As always, it’s the thought that counts

Nov 26, 2021: updated to remove vendors who are no longer active

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Lade Tawak
An Afro and a Hat

Always learning. Sometimes designing and doing research. Sometimes writing and coaching. Always loved by Christ.