As a smart investor, you can take advantage of the growing population in cities across Nigeria and earn an income for yourself by meeting certain needs of the residents around you. Some of the business you can start include:

Making of Fruit Juice: [/b]Nigerians drink fruit juice more than any other people. That’s why companies like La Casera and Chivita who came into the country as nobody are today making billions of naira annually. You can start in a small way and grow the business. www.cs-school.com

[b]Sales of Used Cloth: Tokunbo market in Nigeria is very big and many people prefer to buy used items that are of high quality than buy fakes. The cost of buying and importing used cloths is low compared to the prices in the market here in Nigeria, guaranteeing good return on investment. www.cs-school.com

Dry Cleaning: Professional dry cleaners at affordable prices are scarce in Nigeria. What we have are professional Dry Cleaners whose services fees are extremely high or mediocre dry cleaners who can never keep up with time. This business yields a lot of income if you can balance it up. www.cs-school.com

Professional Car Wash: This business is good if you can set it up in a strategic location in a place like Lagos where there are good numbers of cars. The business is also money spinner. www.cs-school.com

Sales of Building Materials: The rate at which new houses are springing up in Nigeria, you get to wonder why many people still complain of housing problem. Investing in building materials is a good business and a lot of individuals are earning millions out of it. www.cs-school.com

Investing in Internet Business: This is a new crop of powerful investment opportunity that is creating Billionaires around the world including Nigeria. It’s simple! You don’t have to be a Tech person, all you need id to look for creative online startups with good ideas and invest in it. Within 1 to 2 years you will be counting your profits in dollars. www.cs-school.com

Become a Real Estate Agent: If there is one group of professionals and non-professionals that hold the ace, then it is the real estate agents. As in the case with most overpopulated cities, accommodation is a huge challenge and estate agents are banking on this trend to rip off desperate home seekers. You can become a real estate agent and make huge commission from genuinely helping people get their dream homes. www.cs-school.com

Start an Employment Agency: This is a business opportunity that doesn’t need much emphasis, as you already know the unemployment problems Nigeria is facing; with Lagos holding the highest number of unemployment people (graduates and non-graduates). With your own Lagos-based employment agency, you will earn linking job seekers with companies that are looking for capable employees to fill vacant positions. www.cs-school.com

Photography/Videography: You can also start a digital photography or video recording business. You can visit event centers to take pictures of guests who would love to capture the moment. If you have enough money to invest, you can take it a notch higher and open a photography studio. www.cs-school.com

Website Designing: Due to technological advancement and the fact that many businesses are trying to stay ahead of competitors, website designers have become so much needed by organizations. Organizations are also constantly looking for website developers who can continually keep their websites updated and functional. with as low as N10,000 you can acquire a one or two-week training. Then continue your training, then continue your training online by checking out free software and watching videos on YouTube. You can earn an upward of N10,000 for designing a website, depending on the type of site and who your clients. www.cs-school.com

Recharge Card Vouchers Printing and Selling: With a population of over 174 million people and mobile telephone subscription of over 120 million active lines, recharge cards have become one of the fastest selling products in Nigeria. The good news is that you can start your own recharge card printing business and with very little capital. The printer costs about N38,000 and you can start printing with PINS from N20,000 and sell for all networks. Etisalat Nigeria has a package where you can become a sub-dealer of e-top with less than N50,000. www.cs-school.com

Computer Class Instructors: It is no longer news that computers and computer-based systems have become part of everyone’s life, not only at the workplace, but at home as well. Everyone now needs some sort of computer training. You can build a business around that. You can event start computer classes that can be offered at home to those who are in need of your services, welter they are old or young. You could start with two fairly-used computers that are in good conditions. Setting up all these should not cost you more than N50,000 and you can start without having a computer system, just do a good marketing of your service and you have people inviting you to their home or office to train them. www.cs-school.com

Event and Party Planning: If you have complimented so many times on your parties, you may just be good enough to be a party planner. This is a business that cannot fall is you are good at it because it is a well-known fact that Nigerians love to party. All you need do is get some training and acquire some party equipment, depending on how large you want the venture to be. Once you start, you can charge from N15,000 to N20,000, depending on the size of the party. If you do at least two parties in a month, you will be making a comfortable living. www.cs-school.com

Bead and Wireworks Making: Beads and Wireworks are jewelries that are trending now, as so many women, including socialites, now tend to prefer them to other types of jewelries. As a result, many discerning ladies are venturing into the business, churning out adorable designs and making good returns from the business. A two-month training for this craft costa about N20,000. After the training, you can start raking in money, depending on the type of beads you do. For example, there are beads of N1,000. While there are those of even N80, 000 and above. The amount you make depends on your expertise, creativity, the types of beads you use and your customers. www.cs-school.com

Office Supply: There are many people who works in offices and find it difficult to go out to the market to buy things like wrist watches, shirts, ties and perfumes. You can help them do the shopping and deliver it to them. If you are honest with your business and charge reasonably, you may event get much bigger contracts from there. About N50,000 will do to kick start this type of small business in Nigeria and you will be glad at the brisk money you will be making. www.cs-school.com

Plantain Chips Making: Take a look around the streets, most especially in hold-ups, and you would see different brands of Plantain chips. The fact is: they sell very fast because people like the business of producing and supplying chips to shops and hawkers, you would make good money. The major things needed are a big frying pan which goes for about N3,000, a sealing machine which goes for about N15,000, nylons and labels which goes for about N2,000. With these, you are good to go. www.cs-school.com

Barber’s Shop / Hair making: Salon Business is one of the best and lucrative businesses in Nigeria right now because it does not cost much and requires little capital to start. Either a barbing salon or beauty salon for women, both pays a lot because it requires no college degree to start one. Many youths are engaged in salon business and I must tell you that they are earning money doing this. In setting up one, all you need is a bit of training, capital – which depends on how small or big you want your salon to be, location - this will go a long way to determine how successful your business will be. www.cs-school.com

Shoe Making: Shoe making is a unique business with great prospect due to the high demand for shoes and other leather accessories. The business is relevant because it caters for a wide spectrum of people in the society, especially those that are fashion conscious. Many ladies, for instance, would like to shoes that go with their bags, head-tie and other outfits for occasions. The capital needed to start a shoe making business ranges from N40,000 for training and N20,000 for tools and equipment. www.cs-school.com

Social Media Managers: A lot of organizations want to pitch their businesses on social media, but do not know how to go about it. Hiring a freelance social media manager is one of the ways organizations can go about this. To become a social media manager, one of the questions you should ask yourself is, do you naturally have social media skills? A good marketing skill is also very important. Organizations are ready to pay good money to someone who has the skills to create a good presence for their organization online. www.cs-school.com

Cooperate food services delivery: More than half of the population of people in the nations are made up of working class people. Also, with the heavy traffic situation, residents barely have time for themselves. Most working class women cannot afford to take out time to cook during the week and so this makes food delivery service a good business. Averagely you can make up to N200,000 profit monthly. With about N50,000 as start-up capital to prepare tour meals, a good location, a creative business name and a few staff, you are ready to start making money.

What will you add to the list? What is currently trending in your area? What do we miss in the list? Provide your ideas and help others discover more business opportunities, the list will be updated as soon as you post your idea in the comment box. @ www.cs-school.com