Hi guys my name is Ebube I finished secondary school 7year ago ever since then I have been working and saving money so I can be able to start up a business of my own currently I stay in kogi all my life but I'm from Ebonyi state .

So recently my uncle sold the family land and gave me part so currently is have some reasonable naira and I plan to leave for Lagos soon but I have little issues on how to go about. So I have nobody to help or lead me in Lagos I'm just going there on my own to start a business so my question.

1.How do I go about it ?
2. I plan on selling foodstuff ?
3. Which area and market will be conducive for
me to start this business.

Please I really need your advice . Your opinion matters alot

Run from any advice that will involve you parting with any of the money on this platform.

I will advise you go quietly and do your findings. Foodstuffs business moves everywhere not only Lagos

Dear Ebube,
It a good thing you want to start a business, but it obvious you barely have knowledge of this business.

The business has been in existence since BC and would continue be because people cannot do without food, irrespective of the economic conditions people must eat.

There are 2 branches of food business I am aware of
1. Raw food business (selling grains, rice, garti, beans, crayfish, egusi, frozen food etc)
2. Cooked food e.g Mama put or Buka as it called in local parlance

Which ever you decide, look for a mentor who's in the business in your current location, learn as much as you can before venturing into your own food business. It must not be Lagos, food business sell every where and any where.

All the best.

Meerahbel:
Dear Ebube,
It a good thing you want to start a business, but it obvious you barely have knowledge of this business.

The business has been in existence since BC and would continue be because people cannot do without food, irrespective of the economic conditions people must eat.

There are 2 branches of food business I am aware of
1. Raw food business (selling grains, rice, garti, beans, crayfish, egusi, frozen food etc)
2. Cooked food e.g Mama put or Buka as it called in local parlance

Which ever you decide, look for a mentor who's in the business in your current location, learn as much as you can before venturing into your own food business. It must not be Lagos, food business sell every where and any where.

All the best.

I want to leave my current location due to circumstances which I can't control and moreover business here is very slow

And I want to deal on raw and not cooked food

You want to go and add to an already populated Lagos. Go back to ebonyi your state and establish a rice farm with that money.

Easterners and Lagos

Lagos be like London to Igbo people...

Anyway God bless the good people of Southsouth and Southwest

please it's not worth it going to Lagos at this time to start a food business when you can invest that amount on Rice farming or agriculture in your Ebony state and take the finished/Milled rice/agricultural produce to Lagos or other market for sale.

Let's play 2odd with the money

Nairaland is just full of frustrated citizens sha I won't blame any of you . Keep your advice coming please

Elstan20:
Hi guys my name is Ebube I finished secondary school 7year ago ever since then I have been working and saving money so I can be able to start up a business of my own currently I stay in kogi all my life but I'm from Ebonyi state .

So recently my uncle sold the family land and gave me 1.5million naira so currently is have 2.5M naira and I plan to leave for Lagos soon but I have little issues on how to go about. So I have nobody to help or lead me in Lagos I'm just going there on my own to start a business so my question.

1.How do I go about it ?
2. I plan on selling foodstuff ?
3. Which area and market will be conducive for
me to start this business.

Please I really need your advice . Your opinion matters alot

There are lots of Ebonyi people in Lagos and Ogun. Hide that your money for some time and meet one of those rice sellers to teach you the business for a month before you start your own.

Elstan20:
Nairaland is just full of frustrated citizens sha I won't blame any of you . Keep your advice coming please

is just because lagos do not need more developer...go start rice plantation in ebonyi state!

Come to Onitsha and do the business,Lagos is over hyped. We have markets and the population here in Onitsha to give you bumper sale. Lagos will frustrate you with endless demolition of markets and tribalistic discrimination. In case you later decided to go to Lagos,never you invest one Kobo there. Don't ever buy land there even if they are selling it five naira. Do your business and think home. If you want to come to Onitsha,I will assist you without collecting Kobo from you.

Elstan20:
I want to leave my current location due to circumstances which I can't control and moreover business here is very slow

And I want to deal on raw and not cooked food

Good morning, your learn first before you earn. If you go to Lagos, you don't have anyone to stay with or even learn the trade from unlike your current location, you are obviously a green horn and need a mentor in this business you want to venture into.

Elstan20:
Hi guys my name is Ebube I finished secondary school 7year ago ever since then I have been working and saving money so I can be able to start up a business of my own currently I stay in kogi all my life but I'm from Ebonyi state .

So recently my uncle sold the family land and gave me 1.5million naira so currently is have 2.5M naira and I plan to leave for Lagos soon but I have little issues on how to go about. So I have nobody to help or lead me in Lagos I'm just going there on my own to start a business so my question.

1.How do I go about it ?
2. I plan on selling foodstuff ?
3. Which area and market will be conducive for
me to start this business.

Please I really need your advice . Your opinion matters alot

Ebube ebube ebube na three times I call you ooo.

Go ebonyi buy bag of rice from mill come sell for kogi

If you follow my advice in two to three years you can travel to Lagos to do holiday.

House for kogi and Lagos 50-150 na face me I face you ooo.

Shop rent for kogi highest 100k Lagos go manage 400k

Security for kogi na to buy ogogoro for them #2000 highest Lagos you go pay police pay area boys pay security you to pay pay pay pay yet boys to still be boys.


Your 2.5m go finish before you even start the business sef.

I dreaded Lagos i never see a place so crowded

Be careful, you talk too much. Some people will want to dump you of that money. Just be careful. You shouldn't have made mention of the amount with you

Anybody who tell you, he will show you how to start, Bro run o! People are hungry in this lagos. Forget all this hype about lagos. It's criminals are much in lagos. And shop rent is so expensive, same as house rent. You better establish yourself at that ebonyi. Lagos is overhyped. Most people living in Lagos are either into fraud or prostitution.

Elstan20:
Hi guys my name is Ebube I finished secondary school 7year ago ever since then I have been working and saving money so I can be able to start up a business of my own currently I stay in kogi all my life but I'm from Ebonyi state .

So recently my uncle sold the family land and gave me 1.5million naira so currently is have 2.5M naira and I plan to leave for Lagos soon but I have little issues on how to go about. So I have nobody to help or lead me in Lagos I'm just going there on my own to start a business so my question.

1.How do I go about it ?
2. I plan on selling foodstuff ?
3. Which area and market will be conducive for
me to start this business.

Please I really need your advice . Your opinion matters alot

You don't need any of those. Here is my advise which won't cost you much.

Forget about going to Lagos. Stay where you are if it would help you keep expense at the barest minimum. If you are not computer literate then go and register and learn all the basics, this won't cost you more than 20k.

Afterwards, go and learn a digital skill then get a laptop and venture into freelancing.

All your expenses won't be more than 300-400K.

DON'T MOVE ANYWHERE WITHOUT A SOLID ROADMAP.

online4business:


Ebube ebube ebube na three times I call you ooo.

Go ebonyi buy bag of rice from mill come sell for kogi

If you follow my advice in two to three years you can travel to Lagos to do holiday.

House for kogi and Lagos 50-150 na face me I face you ooo.

Shop rent for kogi highest 100k Lagos go manage 400k

Security for kogi na to buy ogogoro for them #2000 highest Lagos you go pay police pay area boys pay security you to pay pay pay pay yet boys to still be boys.


Your 2.5m go finish before you even start the business sef.

All you said are lies I didn't remember telling you I want to go to a high market place I will go to where my money can start something
Not all places in Lagos has thier shop rent ranging from 400k na lie and not all houses in Lagos has their rent ranging from 150k too so stop with the unnecessary hype man .

Dikastan:
Come to Onitsha and do the business,Lagos is over hyped. We have markets and the population here in Onitsha to give you bumper sale. Lagos will frustrate you with endless demolition of markets and tribalistic discrimination. In case you later decided to go to Lagos,never you invest one Kobo there. Don't ever buy land there even if they are selling it five naira. Do your business and think home. If you want to come to Onitsha,I will assist you without collecting Kobo from you.

Lol how am I supposed to trust you ?

Elstan20:


All you said are lies I didn't remember telling you I want to go to a high market place I will go to where my money can start something
Not all places in Lagos has thier shop rent ranging from 400k na lie and not all houses in Lagos has their rent ranging from 150k too so stop with the unnecessary hype man .

Safe journey brotherly greet sanwolu and mc oluomo for me ooo.

Which business are u into presently

illicit:
Which business are u into presently

I have been representing as a sales boy in a supermarket for 6years now

Elstan20:


Lol how am I supposed to trust you ?

U don't need to trust me. I believe you must have a brother or relation in Onitsha,they can as well assist you in getting apartment and shop

Dikastan:

U don't need to trust me. I believe you must have a brother or relation in Onitsha,they can as well assist you in getting apartment and shop

But are you into business at onitsha too ?

Go back to your village

ShinjaWWest:
Lagos be like London to Igbo people...

Anyway God bless the good people of Southsouth and Southwest

Denrele. Naa you be this

Ebube is going to Lagos when some Igbos without any tangible investment in Lagos are telling Igbos to go back to the East?
Make I no talk

Eko Ile, oversea awon omo Igbo!!

Why Lagos dey sweet my people like this?

Move raw foodstuffs from North to East or the riverine areas

What business do you want to run and what’s your craft if you have any

And if your business yield reault where you are presently, you dint necessarily have to relocate to Lagos. You can come and spend few times and get used to the Lagos life and decide if that’s where you really wanna be, Lagos is a tough area, not meant for the Lilly liveried or one who can’t adapt to new environments quickly, otherwise dem go run you streets steady before your eyes go clear, you go di. Part with half of your money before your eyes go clear

So but since you don’t have any one In Lagos yet I advise you don’t be in a rush to move to Lagos my bro

Houses in Lagos are fucking expensive except in places like ikorodu which seems to be in the outskirts of Lagos

In the mainland and the island, house rent are killing and the spaces and the conditions are not even worth such huge rent paid

So if you have enough cash I would have advised you come to Lagos and lodge in a low budget or mid hotels for like a week and use the opportunity to grace around Lagos and have a glimpse of what goes on in Lagos, a week is not enough to learn the Lagos but that will give you a solid idea of Lagos, best of luck

[quote author=Gadafii post=127530689]What business do you want to run and what’s your craft if you have any

And if your business yield reault where you are presently, you dint necessarily have to relocate to Lagos. You can come and spend few times and get used to the Lagos life and decide if that’s where you really wanna be, Lagos is a tough area, not meant for the Lilly liveried or one who can’t adapt to new environments quickly, otherwise dem go run you streets steady before your eyes go clear, you go di. Part with half of your money before your eyes go clear

So but since you don’t have any one In Lagos yet I advise you don’t be in a rush to move to Lagos my bro

Houses in Lagos are fucking expensive except in places like ikorodu which seems to be in the outskirts of Lagos

In the mainland and the island, house rent are killing and the spaces and the conditions are not even worth such huge rent paid

So if you have enough cash I would have advised you come to Lagos and lodge in a low budget or mid hotels for like a week and use the opportunity to grace around Lagos and have a glimpse of what goes on in Lagos, a week is not enough to learn the Lagos but that will give you a solid idea of Lagos, best of luck [/quote

I got up too 2M and above is it enough?