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With the way the economy is these days, every Uni student in Nigeria ought to start a business on campus.

Students should do this to make some money to supplement or add to what your parents send to you.

What do you think?

Very good advice. Some will not understand now, but it pays to start now. Nothing dey street now, AI and IT is reducing jobs daily and then unstable government policies killing businesses.

Where will they get the capital and knowledge to start the business?

You can't "out-business" a bad economy.
Even business men are finding it hard because the economy is very poor.

If every start selling who will buy, nawao, no wahala

osuofia2:
If every start selling who will buy, nawao, no wahala

sell what is rare. Every Human is a consumer. Sell something rare

People should start from secondary school because the economy is not good, politicians are destroying it daily

Everyone with business mindset.
We're soon becoming becoming the West we do much copy from.

Service-based business doesn't require much capital. Dry-cleaning, logistics, Graphics,
No more burning away of spare time.

osuofia2:
If every start selling who will buy, nawao, no wahala

Abi oo, instead of just doing business, they should go online for gigs

Nairaland is gone

By this time in 2010 this page could have been in 9pages but now struggling to reach 2 pages

It was my little typing and printing business that saved me during my undergraduate studies to the extent that my parents doubted if I was in school because I didn't disturb them for money, including school fees.
I am currently into Farm Management and general Agricultural Services.

osuofia2:
If every start selling who will buy, nawao, no wahala

Do you even understand what commerce means? Will everyone sell the same thing? Won’t the student running a barbing shop need to eat in a restaurant run by another student?

Ekosodin behind UNIBEN is a large commercial center and many of the businesses there are owned by students. That’s what OP is talking about.

Nigeria economy is at all time low because all economy indices has failed woefully...

The very reason why Nigerians don’t actually develop entrepreneurs is that they always talk about business and therefore become talkpreneurs (motivational speakers)

People who talk much about business don’t have the knowledge and time to do the business

While

People who do the business don’t have the time and skill to talk about the business.

Nigerians are the former! 😅

Omoh, I wrote projects for people. That's good money. In my time I wrote for 15k. Now I learnt it's like 70k for undergraduates. If you're good and can handle like 5-10 students, that's good income for every session. Top it with printing and photocopy.

Running of errands, cleaning services, POS, barbing and making of hairs at student price. If you get sewing machine, carry am go school sew at lesser price. So many things people around me made money with.

mubarak89:
With the way the economy is these days, every Uni student in Nigeria ought to start a business on campus.

Students should do this to make some money to supplement or add to what your parents send to you.

What do you think?

As as your advice sounds
Can all of us do business?
I dont think so

Well I started mine in university and today it's really grown.
Will I do it again if I had the same opportunity?No!
People should have time to be young and worry about adulting later.

It’s very good to have an extra work to support your education as a student. It’s done in other developed countries.

That being said, buying and selling will only worsen the bad economy.

In this other climes, most of the working students are hardly into buying and selling. The school maps out working hours for them in normal production and service industries.

Heck, most of the universities employ over 5% of their students in their various sectors of the school.

China for example has most of their engineering students work in their school workshops where they build or fabricate goods for export and the students are well paid for it.

So instead of turning our schools to a nuisance in the name of buying and selling, empower faculties to be mini factories and production lines where students will learn and work and earn money at the same time.

Shebe Peter Obi did it while he was in unn nnsuka, so tay he built a building around the campus a bank then occupied, few week ago he explained all this while talking of how he started business, instead of him to be appreciated, didn't reno, adeyanju and the rest of those apc misfits including charlatans on this forum not attack him?
Today this post is advocating for students to start a business. Anyway, your parents sent you to school to study not to trade. Trading will be a distraction.

They don't teach how to make money in universities here in niaja. You have to find that out yourself. That money you were planning to use to buy crop top and baggy jeans to impress Jennifer. Oga use am start small business.. Even if na selling of soft drinks and snacks. You can dive in selling of okirika female clothes ,males shoes ..

osuofia2:
If every start selling who will buy, nawao, no wahala

Are we all selling the same things? It's okay to start early.

Well the using the word "EVERY" is overbearing... As not every student can start a business

post=136708613:
Where will they get the capital and knowledge to start the business?

Their school fees

They will differ the admissions for a year

mubarak89:
With the way the economy is these days, every Uni student in Nigeria ought to start a business on campus.

Students should do this to make some money to supplement or add to what your parents send to you.

What do you think?

So you want to finish them kpata kpata.

Nigeria is a hard place to start a business now as a student.

Don't get me wrong

Smart business ideas needs good funding and a strong backbone and support and believe me greater percentage of Nigerian students don't have that.

Look round you and check the kind of business Nigerian student can do and how it favors them eg.
Salon
Photocopy center
Sharwama
Dry cleaning

Bros, they are all running in a loss cos of over taxing and lack of electricity

If you can start a business and do well then focus on that and 'pause' school. That's what Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg did.

People tend to perform best when all their attention is devoted to one area.

If every university student started a business, who would work for each other or do the employer's jobs? We have to differentiate entreprenur capability and leadership capabilities

Nuzo1:
It’s very good to have an extra work to support your education as a student. It’s done in other developed countries.

That being said, buying and selling will only worsen the bad economy.

In this other climes, most of the working students are hardly into buying and selling. The school maps out working hours for them in normal production and service industries.

Heck, most of the universities employ over 5% of their students in their various sectors of the school.

China for example has most of their engineering students work in their school workshops where they build or fabricate goods for export and the students are well paid for it.

So instead of turning our schools to a nuisance in the name of buying and selling, empower faculties to be mini factories and production lines where students will learn and work and earn money at the same time.

Well said, Nigerian only love building churches and mosques especially those in the south

Good advice, though. But if you can’t manage your study time alongside extra activities, you’d better think twice o. Your studies always remain your number one priority.

SeaTrade:
Well I started mine in university and today it's really grown.
Will I do it again if I had the same opportunity?No!
People should have time to be young and worry about adulting later.

Gbam!!!!
I totally agree.
Leave worrying and making money for adults while you enjoy your youth age