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Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Jaiyesinmi: 6:14pm On Apr 06, 2025
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Gracias
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op):
Tote and Basket Bags

For those who know to weave basket bags and Tote bags, you can take advantage of the new rejection of single use plastic bags in malls.
You can sell them right at the entrance, target ICM, Justrite and other major malls and make a lot of money selling quality basket bags
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 4:36pm On Apr 07, 2025
Cheese is the New Meat

Already in practice in some Universities, the cost of meat will be too discouraging in future.
But cheese will be the rescue. If you can invest in it's sale you would be really investing in the now and the future.
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 5:05pm On Apr 07, 2025
Crematorium

It's not that lucrative, but the influx of Indians and Chinese in our country offers you the opportunity to run a crematorium should they lose a person.
Many Nigerians would soon buy into the idea in places where there are shortage of land.
Mortuary services, urns and coffins... valla morghulis
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 5:12pm On Apr 07, 2025
Yurts and Tents for the displaced

Unfortunately there is an opportunity in disaster, this one however requires dealing with the government or the NGO overseeing the IDP camps.
You can make deal to import and erect tents and yurts for the Internally Displaced person from any of thr myriad calamities that is a recurrence in this country.
They pick the site, you provide and erect tents and sanitation .
Plateau, Borno, Kaduna.. but we pray for lasting peace.
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 2:56pm On Apr 09, 2025
Walkie Talkie app

Using radio frequency, we could have a Walkie Talkie app which is so much cooler and Cheaper than Whatsapp.
It doesn't require airtime or data.
Just set a frequency for you and your loved ones or guys, plug your earpiece. If doesn't interfere with your music listen. You listen to the conversation and reply using radio frequency alone.
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 2:59pm On Apr 09, 2025
WALL Art

This isn't a business per se, but a way to advertise your business as a painter. There are so many fences in Nigeria, why not get a white paint and turn them to your personal canvas, in a Street art/ advert for your business and talent.
You could even take time to cement the wall and create your mural.
Take photos and post them online and they can become trendy backdrops
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 3:06pm On Apr 09, 2025
2 Watt bulbs and Energy Saving Appliances.

I might be wrong but I believe the tweaking the wattage of appliances should be the onus of our electricians with the current price of electricity today
If we could tweak the glass coverings a little convex, a little tweak here and there and I'm sure we could have 2 watts bulb, and 30 watts fridge, etc.
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 3:58pm On Apr 09, 2025
Soil and mulch fertilizer and seed:
Using manure from the local abbatoir and some loam you could sell fertile soil in plastic bags, with seedlings, Mulch and Fertilizer

Jumia/Konga collection center and Logistics:
You could apply to make your place a collection center for online stores, provided your place is safe and you can handle the trickle of people, plus it can become a logistic office.

Online radio and podcast
Here's what I'm listening to right now, and you could share the music on your playlist, online or make a playlist and upload, with voice note of funny things that happened to you, or explaining a concepts as your podcast,
First for fun, then monetize it later

Medical research and psychological research and selling them to companies that need them.
You could take your time to Conduct research or
practicals that could serve as breakthrough in sciences.
These are for science graduates with some form of time on their hands, you and your colleagues could band together create a makeshift lab, study conduct research and experiment as fun, and you could publish your findings online to the right audience

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Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 4:06pm On Apr 09, 2025
Employee Consultancy.
An employee consultancy that provides workforce bases on Hourly work arrangements and shifts for a percentage could open doors for a lot of young Nigerians.
You protect them from exploitation, determine the work, proximity, hours and hourly pay of the workers could be a very good thing.


Sports competition/Form
Using a single field of 2 acres, you could serve as a source for footballing talent.
Create a sports completion, easy to procure jersey of all white and all black. Organize the competition according to Transformers or Feeders.
A five aside gotten from the users of such and such transformer against a counterpart.
A 11 man team from a Feeder doing the same, there would be no machinery, it'd be fun and personal.


Musical Instruments:
You can sell refurbished musical instruments, New ones are hard to sell, Music school if you have the time, which could morph into a music group, a jazz ensemble?
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 1:18am On Apr 10, 2025
Lens:
Camera lens, Microscope Lens and the sale of microscopes itself, Lenses for eye glasses among others

Pedometer app hikers boot
For hikers charging a power bank, Bluetooth charging of a boot that uses the pressure of your weight to power your phone. Converting the pressure and the amount of step into Energy

The BagBrella
attack iron to the inside your bag you could insert a umbrella into it as a stand while your bag is behind, you don't have to tire your hands.
Done, you remove the umbrella like the ones used in stands and fold it inside your bag.
Designed into, or designed as such, cool.

Pasteurized breast milk/Formula :
Lots of lactating women, expensive baby formula
Get their blood group/type, General check up, get their breast milk for a fee, pasteurize, package and sell it the liquid form or sell it in processed powdered form.

Air gliding and parachute/Gun range /Pilot:
This is a business in the range of experience, As a retired pilot, you could make money in teaching people how to fly small planes,
With the right training, introduce air gliding,
Operate a gun range for people to shoot, practice aiming, sniping and shooting at target to blow off steam. Experiences draw interest

Cannabinoids drugs
There no law against tuning cannabis to a drug that could serve as. An anti depressant, or to ease high blood pressure, if paracetamol has cocaine, Why couldn't we harness this large market And create an extract that can be solds as caplets.

Orange Peel coils:
Orange peels remains the best and most natural insect repellent, soaking it with a lavender scented paper mache you could make the best mosquito coils for half the price of production.
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 1:21am On Apr 10, 2025
Ulcer Care
Unripe Plantain soaked into a container for 3 days can be an effective cure for ulcer. this extract could be tuned into a drug a liquid caplet like Vitamin E and cod liver oil.
For immediate relief from heart burn
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 1:57am On Apr 10, 2025
Parks and resorts for dogs

They need a place in the city where you could loosen those chains and let them run, it could be a place to for them to meet and greet, find a mate which could help you get puppies
And it could also serve as a Shelter for runaways
If you can feed them
An acre or two should suffice.
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 6:44pm On Apr 10, 2025
Table Tennis Competition

Using the numerous event centers you could organize a table tennis competition among youth.
In the afternoon and evening of the weekdays, returning it back to it's use in the weekend.

Table tennis is easy to assemble and fold back.
It will be an opportunity for our secondary school students
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 3:56pm On Apr 11, 2025
Bicycle Competition:

You don't need the government intervention to create a bicycle competition, Get your bicycle riders registered From Ikeja to Ajah winners to collect a certain grand prize, slated for the last Saturday of the month.
Something like tour de France but ours.
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 4:31pm On Apr 11, 2025
A Man made Lake

Nothing cools the environment like a man made lake and monument, sculpture designed as a waterfall.
It brings it's gathering, how it translate to business is that it could attract a gate fee when used as a resort, a meeting place, a semi zoo for ducks and swans and humidifier for the environment.
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 4:49pm On Apr 11, 2025
Balls and jerseys
Though a guy has talked about sports but focusing only on balls, like Football volleyball
Tennis, golf, baseball,
And Jerseys like Basketball jersey, Vintage football jerseys, baseball and cricket sport wears
With the right publicity you could have that as your niche.
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 5:05pm On Apr 11, 2025
DANCE STUDIO:

Teaching girls ballet, Fox trot and tango, Cultural dances and Break dance ans Hawaiian dances could be a weekend relaxation if you had a following, a studio and a passion for dance.

Could be fun,
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 5:06pm On Apr 11, 2025
Pallet Hotel Near a beach:

Are you looking to create a hotel different from the norm, we have lots of beaches you could create pallet homes in a room, and room self using the water for your convenience.
It will be a get away for hose who want that sea salt in their lungs.
If you have seen certain movies.

You only need to use pallets, makes repair very easy.
The whole of Ibeno, Obolo, Warri, Elegushi are at your service
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 12:49am On Apr 12, 2025
Parking Space:

You can part and convert your houses in the city that are too expensive to rent into parking store for those who have shops

BONDED TERMINAL

Speak to the custom office nearest to you on how to convert your fenced 2/3 acre of land into a bonded terminal for bringing containers and make millions for life.
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 3:26pm On Apr 16, 2025
Bottle branding:
Here's an idea for our fmcg selling plastic bottled drinks, I feel that they spend a lot of money fixing the nylon wrap that carry the name why not brand the bottle itself and allow the content be a background for the white ink, save you money, if you could get that contract. It be nice.


Cotton /Jeans shoes
Footwears still remains a big problem in Africa but if you know how to make shoes and sandals you could source material from cotton (Teru) material and old jeans to make shoes for wedding and outing to be worn with native dress and sell online and in your place of business.
These materials are very thick and easy to wash comfy to wear.
A product of quality could earn you cool money.

Plastic earpiece
I have an idea of using a plastic casing for our earpiece, giving it turgidity like a thin stethoscope instead of the rubber slack obsolescence ones we are used to.
Big bucks business, I think for serious companies, I guess
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 1:19pm On Apr 18, 2025
An Award Show

Another way to make is to create an award show, and make money from sponsors. You need a venue, plaques and a standard.
Before your sponsors become big, you will need to maintain consistency.
An award show I'd like done is the Radio award show, (call it Listeners choice award or Mr Airwaves)

I'd give best Presenter (male) - Tife Tanimomo Blitz FM
Best presenter (female) - Abosede Omene
Best DJ - Dj black et.c

Other award shows include:
Best Writers
Viewers choice of best soap opera
Best Artist (Painting and Drawing)
Photographers Awards
Music and Movie Awards, the list goes on...

Maintain a standard and be unbiased.
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 4:32pm On Apr 18, 2025
MASTS

When you think about it, mast are ready made radio towers, instead of erecting your own radio towers, you could reach an agreement with the Network Providers who owns a mast to hoist your Radio transmitter, and connect it via WiFi to your system close by.

Effectively running a radio station, with half the cost.
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 4:37pm On Apr 18, 2025
Prison Labour
Not as a business, but our prisoners can be utilized to perform certain redundant task, given the amount of time they have, providing them with a sense of purpose.
Task like
Cataloging, converting Files from Paper Pdf
Either through typing and scanning. They could be employed at 300 naira per hour.
Especially old texts and books, old printed files and documents can be converted to Pdf for proper store keeping purpose.
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 4:43pm On Apr 18, 2025
VENDING MACHINES

When you look at a banking hall, what is missing a vending machine, also if you go the Headquarters of major corporation, some of their workers have to go outside the building to buy simple snacks.

Now if you could import vending machines that accept note, program it to the naira, All you do is stock them up with snacks, biscuits, chocolate, soft drinks and bottled water.
All you need to do is set up a camera that checks against vandals
There will be no need for you to have to step out for light refreshments.
If you could franchise the banks and corporations, You would fully refreshed yourself.
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 4:47pm On Apr 18, 2025
Cotton Underwear

A Tailor with an eye for precision could take on the cutting and sewing of cotton underwear, using cotton materials
Cotton materials, with net and inch elastic could make for a nice and fitting material for both male and female, it could also serve as cotton lingeries
The Teru material is quite durable and could make nice comfy boxers, bra and panties: everybody's business
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by freeborn02: 7:39pm On Apr 18, 2025
Psiyohos:
The idea is to go to the towns and Villages and be the king of those places. Just to fill gas in my village we have to go very far
Employ people and put them there
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8. SELLING EGGS

If you can survive the 16 weeks layers practically feed themselves , they will pay for their feed and still give you an average of 300k per month.
If you have space, and you can stlll rear broilers on the side

9. Farming Plantains and cocoyams
If you can, farming perennials like Plantains and cocoyams means that you get snails for free. AND They can never die, one Plantains can give you 5 more suckers. Water and manure only

10. Car wash
Already mainstream, but not in towns and villages. To save cost set it up near canals to save cost on water

11. Clothing
Touche up the katangowa and bend down select will it kill you to wash and iron thsee clothes and sell it for a flat rate of 500 naira in University areas.


12. Pallets building materials
People are always setting up SMEs, you can buy Pallets from sawmills at 100 naira and sell at 150 naira, quick building materials like nails and cutlass go well in towns too.


13. Gas
One cylinder can give you 60k if you are fair, your niche should be the home service, Nigerians are lazy, get a bike and you can cover more ground.
There's money in gas filling
Bro, do you know anyone I can link up with in Jos for the pepper business?
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 12:57am On Apr 19, 2025
You'd have to make the journey yourself I couldn't give you anybody's number.
Break the journey, Get to Ilorin first that's if you are in Lagos (7k) then head to Jo(10k).
From Terminus take a bus to Faring Gada market I hope it should still be as cheap, Put it in an evening traveling small bus in Jankwano (ask for a driver called Victor)
It should be in Ijora the next day, you could follow the bus or break the journey back the Same way. Get your contacts and make phone calls next time
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 1:47am On Apr 19, 2025
Sachet izal/Sachet disinfectant (Dettol)
If Hypo could do one better and create a sachet disinfectant and package it a Nylon style packaging of the Hollandia pour cap keep, another company perhaps.

Android game, PS, &Comic house &Animation
You could chose to focus your attention on download and installation ifg android games, Heavy games like NBA, call of duty, download free and Cracked PS Games in memory cards.
Or go into drawing and animations proper and employ artist to create our own made cartoons
Max Art was a childhood friend who drew imaginary superheroes, someone could make a cartoon of our own gods like sango, Amadioha, well dawn well animated.
Animation is Japan's highest export.

Buying refuse from Nigerians
Refuse are raw materials if you have the money to refine. Pure water nylon and certain refuse could be bought at 100 naira per kg, usurping the refuse agency. The northerners make do with plastic, but if you advertise an interesting you could keep a weekly waiting, making money turning nylons into jerseys.


Hauling agency
Make it your profession to help people move from one house to the other, get cartons, get guys with patience and gentility to handle property with care, a big truck and lots of celotapes and you can be a trusted Hauling company.
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 12:06pm On Apr 19, 2025
Solar Panels Sliding Window

Convert your sliding windows to solar panels and find alternative electricity for your apartment.
A solar panel consist a glass and a solar receptor chose . If you could creating of attaching those cables and creating a conduit wiring besides the wall to a battery as an alternate source of energy. Cool
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Psiyohos(op): 12:11pm On Apr 19, 2025
Security/ Watch Business

Now these street lights are solar powered just before the bulb lies a platform flat that can house a small camera.
This can be used in estates and high class communities for security purposes.
All you need to do is connect the camera wiring and attach it to that of the Street lights.
Get an office that records the views and you could be employed by estates and big companies, reducing their need for night security guards, leaving the ones at the gate alone
Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by Bensin123: 12:17pm On Apr 19, 2025
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