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Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by oyigah(m): 7:51am On Jul 30, 2020
It's called GRACE!!!
Evilgenuis:
Abuja is operated.
If you want to do well in abj you need the following:
1. Lu[s][/s]ck
2. Capital
3. Package
4. Area in abuja(wuse and bwari are not the same, but all is Abj.

Number 1 will sound funny but my brother you need it...in your choice of location, type of business, Because whatever you want to sell, know that somebody is already selling it.
Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by davidhobo: 8:34am On Jul 30, 2020
sunmarouk:


guy, he just said the truth. which nonsense targeted add is that, out of 100 people targeted, maybe only 3 might end up patronizing you(after pleading and assuring them seriously). The leading by hand or referal is the best bet. Even ordinary home teacher, if they don't know you, you will place targeted add and posters tire, thereby wasting your money, time and energy. Don't try argue, cos am speaking from experience as a business man & educationist.

for you to sell in wuse market, you must already have your dedicated customers, otherwise your money and materials will be tied down. 1year will reach without you making any reasonable sales and still need to renew shop rent worth millions

Dont mind the foolish child called sweetcunt97 coming to argue with me, and give some one else false hope. Going by her/his moniker, she/he was born in 1997...a 23yr old trying to shit on time tested wisdom.

Just to explain to the OP again- you relocate or come to abuja if you have nothing to lose. You are on ground zero in your previous location, so if you come to abuja and remain on ground zero, you have lost nothing- you were grounded before anyway. Same level.

If however, you hit luck and move to level 40, or even 20, you have done well. But if you were on level 20, in your previous place and come.to abuja tp drop to level 10 or 0? Regret will be your name

Its like playing kalo kalo or Betnaija..if you feel you can chance the odds, by all means come. But like BeNaija, 99.9% of the gamblers always lose.Whatsoever you tell the OP, he/she is going to come anyway, he has already made up his mind.

But know this:

No one is gon' buy luxury items from you off the bat. Thats a niche market, its not volume driven, you need just few customers who sustain you- problem is getting the few customers.

You sell luxury goods, so you must get a shop in a highbrow area- if you manage to get a shop in any of those average looking plazas like Habib, or any such, rent is 5mill a year.

Can you afford that? Even if you can afford it, they still wont come cos they dont know you. The very next shop, you will see another Hajia selling gold, the same gold you are selling and she is making money and you are wondering why she is having plenty customers while no one is coming to your shop.

Know why, they are patronizing her, even in that sleazy, dirty plaza? Network, connect- contacts. They can vouch for her and her authenticity.

All the people coming there, schooled with her or her husband at uniMaid, Fed Poly Birnin Kebbi, college of education, Dass or ABU Zaria Or her father was one of the early allottees in Abuja in 1991 who housed many of the movers and shakers of the city now for free then, so now they patronize her business.

Or they belong to same lesbian club or homsexual society or one large family in the north.or will you put luxury items in the booth of your car and start driving around offices, begging people to buy?

Sorry go be your name.

Somebody must hold you by the hand and introduce to people or clique who will push your hustle. Or you think you will just stand up from Calabar, enter night bus or flight and come to Abuja and start seling gold or trinkets to women?

You can anway, just give yourself 10yrs- a 10yr gestation period to network and not just know people, but get people to accept you, and perhaps, just maybe, your business can get some traction. 10yrs isnt too long na, abi?

Better think of a mass market business- a business where, whether you knkw anybody or not, you will sell- food stuff, cement, phone, etc

If you insist on the luxury niche, on a no name basis, come with good money and rent a shop in the highbrow malls- like Silverbird, Jabi LakeMall, Ceddi etc. They charge by the square meter. 100,000naira per square meter. A square meter is the space you can place a chair- one plastic chair.8 or 9mill shop rent per year. Wetin you dey sell?

So go figure.

And anyway, those who have shops in those malls, you think they make profit? They just have those places for address purposes. They dont make any profit, but profit was never the purpose anyway. Every four years, conciding with every electoral cycle, those shops become empty and new tenants arrive.

So, luxury items from Calabar? Hmmm...think well o. If you go and get a shop in Kubwa..or Maraba..well, its no longer luxury items you are selling and you can get some business..but inside town? Hehhehe

Come to abuja and sell female clothes- you may succeed, locate yourself in Maraba, Kubwa, Dei Dei- have a shop, support with online sales and you will be good. Or a small corner shop in Gwarinpa.Or go rent a shop in Wuse Market(1.3m a year) or Utako Market and sell provisions or FMCG's or food stuff, or crayfish- you will see enough money to be comfortable, not rich. Or try selling building materials in Nyanyan or Madalla.

Forget this luxury item business wey u dey talk. I sure say u never even hold real saudi abi white gold for hand for that calabar wey u dey so.

My 2kobo. Listen to these children like Sweetcunt at your own peril.

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Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by Clothingonline9(m): 8:44am On Jul 30, 2020
excessmon:
Have you lived in the two places before?
How much profit can doing business in Lagos bring?
In life business is about packaging and selling right.....I have tasted the two places and sincerely Lagos is overrated.... Abuja is the emerging world
You speaking jargons Lagos over rated if you know the number of no life from villages Lagos has made millionaires and billionaires through business you will keep shut the 20 richest men in Nigeria left their city to Lagos.
You can’t compare any city I’m west Africa in business growth

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Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by Gerrard59(m): 9:10am On Jul 30, 2020
davidhobo:



Hehehehe..hunger na hin go khee u here o.

Na only Runz girls full here, those are the ones you can access. They dont have money, just enough for skimpy clothes.

The women that have money, you cant even access them. You only see them drive by in flashy cars, you cant go to their offices or homes, and you wont even be able to meet them in churches either.

Abuja is by connect and network,.someone must hold you by the hand and drsg along into a place, clique or gathering.

Perhaps in conferences amd exhibitions only, you can meet women who.have luxuty taste. But, problem is-you/yourself cant even be near those places, you wont even know such events held at Transcorp or Sheraton till you watch the highlights on TV.

clothes in maraba, nyanyan, kubwa, one man village, dei dei, to women and you will see good money, but luxury items?


Una funny eh. grin
Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by saeed123: 9:15am On Jul 30, 2020
I advised,u just don't move with out a full research & enquiry. I also need help I just finished my nysc program in Lagos State, IAM from anyigba kogi state d igala speaking part, I want to start a phone accessories business around fed University lokoja(FUL) I will like to know if there is room 4 me or the accessories business is saturated around the school, if u live close or sch there pls help.
Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by Swinger60(f): 9:34am On Jul 30, 2020
Duru9:
The only lucrative business here is real estate and side chick to married men
these two aren't even selling again in this town.

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Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by segvic(m): 9:35am On Jul 30, 2020
iamadonis2:


I can safely say I'm a force to reckon with in my current business location.

In this case I will advice you to remain in your present location since you are a force to reckon with there.

It is good if you want to open another branch in Abuja but if you don't have enough money to promote your business you will end up wasting you time, money and effort. Abuja is a good place but business is expensive to run there. Type of business and location are also important.

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Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by Swinger60(f): 9:38am On Jul 30, 2020
davidhobo:


Dont mind the foolish child called sweetcunt97 coming to argue with me, and give some one else false hope. Going by her/his moniker, she/he was born in 1997...a 23yr old trying to shit on time tested wisdom.

Just to explain to the OP again- you relocate or come to abuja if you have nothing to lose. You are on ground zero in your previous location, so if you come to abuja and remain on ground zero, you have lost nothing- you were grounded before anyway. Same level.

If however, you hit luck and move to level 40, or even 20, you have done well. But if you were on level 20, in your previous place and come.to abuja tp drop to level 10 or 0? Regret will be your name

Its like playing kalo kalo or Betnaija..if you feel you can chance the odds, by all means come. But like BeNaija, 99.9% of the gamblers always lose.Whatsoever you tell the OP, he/she is going to come anyway, he has already made up his mind.

But know this:

No one is gon' buy luxury items from you off the bat. Thats a niche market, its not volume driven, you need just few customers who sustain you- problem is getting the few customers.

You sell luxury goods, so you must get a shop in a highbrow area- if you manage to get a shop in any of those average looking plazas like Habib, or any such, rent is 5mill a year.

Can you afford that? Even if you can afford it, they still wont come cos they dont know you. The very next shop, you will see another Hajia selling gold, the same gold you are selling and she is making money and you are wondering why she is having plenty customers while no one is coming to your shop.

Know why, they are patronizing her, even in that sleazy, dirty plaza? Network, connect- contacts. They can vouch for her and her authenticity.

All the people coming there, schooled with her or her husband at uniMaid, Fed Poly Birnin Kebbi, college of education, Dass or ABU Zaria Or her father was one of the early allottees in Abuja in 1991 who housed many of the movers and shakers of the city now for free then, so now they patronize her business.

Or they belong to same lesbian club or homsexual society or one large family in the north.or will you put luxury items in the booth of your car and start driving around offices, begging people to buy?

Sorry go be your name.

Somebody must hold you by the hand and introduce to people or clique who will push your hustle. Or you think you will just stand up from Calabar, enter night bus or flight and come to Abuja and start seling gold or trinkets to women?

You can anway, just give yourself 10yrs- a 10yr gestation period to network and not just know people, but get people to accept you, and perhaps, just maybe, your business can get some traction. 10yrs isnt too long na, abi?

Better think of a mass market business- a business where, whether you knkw anybody or not, you will sell- food stuff, cement, phone, etc

If you insist on the luxury niche, on a no name basis, come with good money and rent a shop in the highbrow malls- like Silverbird, Jabi LakeMall, Ceddi etc. They charge by the square meter. 100,000naira per square meter. A square meter is the space you can place a chair- one plastic chair.8 or 9mill shop rent per year. Wetin you dey sell?

So go figure.

And anyway, those who have shops in those malls, you think they make profit? They just have those places for address purposes. They dont make any profit, but profit was never the purpose anyway. Every four years, conciding with every electoral cycle, those shops become empty and new tenants arrive.

So, luxury items from Calabar? Hmmm...think well o. If you go and get a shop in Kubwa..or Maraba..well, its no longer luxury items you are selling and you can get some business..but inside town? Hehhehe

Come to abuja and sell female clothes- you may succeed, locate yourself in Maraba, Kubwa, Dei Dei- have a shop, support with online sales and you will be good. Or a small corner shop in Gwarinpa.Or go rent a shop in Wuse Market(1.3m a year) or Utako Market and sell provisions or FMCG's or food stuff, or crayfish- you will see enough money to be comfortable, not rich. Or try selling building materials in Nyanyan or Madalla.

Forget this luxury item business wey u dey talk. I sure say u never even hold real saudi abi white gold for hand for that calabar wey u dey so.

My 2kobo. Listen to these children like Sweetcunt at your own peril.
you have dished out raw truth to op. Respect bro

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Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by Duru9(m): 9:49am On Jul 30, 2020
Swinger60:
these two aren't even selling again in this town.


E de sell oh
I do uber job here
I know what's up

These young girls and these married matter no go end soon

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Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by mu2sa2: 10:02am On Jul 30, 2020
Rgade:
Hmm... I don't know about lucrative,but I honestly can't stay in the same city with buhari.
But you are staying in the same country, the same world. Hypocrite!

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Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by kareemkamil(m): 10:18am On Jul 30, 2020
Abuja not lucrative for business, but lucrative for sport
Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by sojiooo1(m): 10:45am On Jul 30, 2020
The problem people outside Abuja have with Abuja is taking Abuja as a city. Abuja is a state comprises of many City. This city are developed than each other, you will still see paces that are far worse than your village in Abuja. People living there will still say they are living in Abuja.

If you want to sell Luxury things in Abuja, you have to get the shop to places where Luxury people live. You can not compare selling luxury stuff in Asokoro, Maitama, Wuse to Gwagwalad, Zuba, Kubwa. It won’t work.

Where you will sell luxury things and get customer, just make sure you will have 4m for renting and beautification of shop alone.


You cannot live in Benue and want to be selling luxury things at Gboko, not live in Ogun state and be selling luxury things at J4, Not live in Osun and be selling luxury things at Olode, Not live in Edo and be selling luxury things at Okada, Not live in Kwara and be selling luxury things at Oro. You need to get your shop where there will be market for what you will sell


Take Abuja as a state and city inside are far developed than each other just like the normal regular state

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Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by sojiooo1(m): 10:55am On Jul 30, 2020
To do business in Abuja. You will first need to sell your shop. I visited a friend we grow up together when I moved to Abuja for Academic, this friend has moved earlier than me. He has a shop at utako. A very small shop like this in one shopping complex. It cost him 900k to rent a shop and was only doing tailoring in that shop. I ask about the fee for showing cloth here and he told me, the cheapest cloth he sowed for people is 8k.

Trust me. You will still see where you will speed same cloth at 3k in Abuja

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Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by millionboi2: 10:56am On Jul 30, 2020
iamadonis2:


Calabar. And I'm into female luxury items.
thy own money well we'll

Fake ppl plenty too
Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by ayenale1(m): 10:59am On Jul 30, 2020
juniorstar:

I fear who no fear ogun...land of skull miners. no week passes without a murder or missing person

So people no miss for Lagos, Oyo, Plateau, Abuja, Enugu, Benue abi BH boys no murder people for Borno or bandits no kill for Katsina, Sokoto Zamfara.
Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by VeeVeeMyLuv(m): 11:07am On Jul 30, 2020
davidhobo:


Dont mind the foolish child called sweetcunt97 coming to argue with me, and give some one else false hope. Going by her/his moniker, she/he was born in 1997...a 23yr old trying to shit on time tested wisdom.

Just to explain to the OP again- you relocate or come to abuja if you have nothing to lose. You are on ground zero in your previous location, so if you come to abuja and remain on ground zero, you have lost nothing- you were grounded before anyway. Same level.

If however, you hit luck and move to level 40, or even 20, you have done well. But if you were on level 20, in your previous place and come.to abuja tp drop to level 10 or 0? Regret will be your name

Its like playing kalo kalo or Betnaija..if you feel you can chance the odds, by all means come. But like BeNaija, 99.9% of the gamblers always lose.Whatsoever you tell the OP, he/she is going to come anyway, he has already made up his mind.

But know this:

No one is gon' buy luxury items from you off the bat. Thats a niche market, its not volume driven, you need just few customers who sustain you- problem is getting the few customers.

You sell luxury goods, so you must get a shop in a highbrow area- if you manage to get a shop in any of those average looking plazas like Habib, or any such, rent is 5mill a year.

Can you afford that? Even if you can afford it, they still wont come cos they dont know you. The very next shop, you will see another Hajia selling gold, the same gold you are selling and she is making money and you are wondering why she is having plenty customers while no one is coming to your shop.

Know why, they are patronizing her, even in that sleazy, dirty plaza? Network, connect- contacts. They can vouch for her and her authenticity.

All the people coming there, schooled with her or her husband at uniMaid, Fed Poly Birnin Kebbi, college of education, Dass or ABU Zaria Or her father was one of the early allottees in Abuja in 1991 who housed many of the movers and shakers of the city now for free then, so now they patronize her business.

Or they belong to same lesbian club or homsexual society or one large family in the north.or will you put luxury items in the booth of your car and start driving around offices, begging people to buy?

Sorry go be your name.

Somebody must hold you by the hand and introduce to people or clique who will push your hustle. Or you think you will just stand up from Calabar, enter night bus or flight and come to Abuja and start seling gold or trinkets to women?

You can anway, just give yourself 10yrs- a 10yr gestation period to network and not just know people, but get people to accept you, and perhaps, just maybe, your business can get some traction. 10yrs isnt too long na, abi?

Better think of a mass market business- a business where, whether you knkw anybody or not, you will sell- food stuff, cement, phone, etc

If you insist on the luxury niche, on a no name basis, come with good money and rent a shop in the highbrow malls- like Silverbird, Jabi LakeMall, Ceddi etc. They charge by the square meter. 100,000naira per square meter. A square meter is the space you can place a chair- one plastic chair.8 or 9mill shop rent per year. Wetin you dey sell?

So go figure.

And anyway, those who have shops in those malls, you think they make profit? They just have those places for address purposes. They dont make any profit, but profit was never the purpose anyway. Every four years, conciding with every electoral cycle, those shops become empty and new tenants arrive.

So, luxury items from Calabar? Hmmm...think well o. If you go and get a shop in Kubwa..or Maraba..well, its no longer luxury items you are selling and you can get some business..but inside town? Hehhehe

Come to abuja and sell female clothes- you may succeed, locate yourself in Maraba, Kubwa, Dei Dei- have a shop, support with online sales and you will be good. Or a small corner shop in Gwarinpa.Or go rent a shop in Wuse Market(1.3m a year) or Utako Market and sell provisions or FMCG's or food stuff, or crayfish- you will see enough money to be comfortable, not rich. Or try selling building materials in Nyanyan or Madalla.

Forget this luxury item business wey u dey talk. I sure say u never even hold real saudi abi white gold for hand for that calabar wey u dey so.

My 2kobo. Listen to these children like Sweetcunt at your own peril.
my man u are a Legend! U must be a veteran businessman. This is an awesome analysis, I think the op is supposed to pay u some good consultancy fees for this.

Respect!

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Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by SweetCunt97(f): 11:41am On Jul 30, 2020
davidhobo:


Dont mind the foolish child called sweetunt
97 coming to argue with me, and give some one else false hope. Going by her/his moniker, she/he was born in 1997...a 23yr old trying to shit on time tested wisdom.

Just to explain to the OP again- you relocate or come to abuja if you have nothing to lose. You are on ground zero in your previous location, so if you come to abuja and remain on ground zero, you have lost nothing- you were grounded before anyway. Same level.

If however, you hit luck and move to level 40, or even 20, you have done well. But if you were on level 20, in your previous place and come.to abuja tp drop to level 10 or 0? Regret will be your name

Its like playing kalo kalo or Betnaija..if you feel you can chance the odds, by all means come. But like BeNaija, 99.9% of the gamblers always lose.Whatsoever you tell the OP, he/she is going to come anyway, he has already made up his mind.

But know this:

No one is gon' buy luxury items from you off the bat. Thats a niche market, its not volume driven, you need just few customers who sustain you- problem is getting the few customers.

You sell luxury goods, so you must get a shop in a highbrow area- if you manage to get a shop in any of those average looking plazas like Habib, or any such, rent is 5mill a year.

Can you afford that? Even if you can afford it, they still wont come cos they dont know you. The very next shop, you will see another Hajia selling gold, the same gold you are selling and she is making money and you are wondering why she is having plenty customers while no one is coming to your shop.

Know why, they are patronizing her, even in that sleazy, dirty plaza? Network, connect- contacts. They can vouch for her and her authenticity.

All the people coming there, schooled with her or her husband at uniMaid, Fed Poly Birnin Kebbi, college of education, Dass or ABU Zaria Or her father was one of the early allottees in Abuja in 1991 who housed many of the movers and shakers of the city now for free then, so now they patronize her business.

Or they belong to same lesbian club or homsexual society or one large family in the north.or will you put luxury items in the booth of your car and start driving around offices, begging people to buy?

Sorry go be your name.

Somebody must hold you by the hand and introduce to people or clique who will push your hustle. Or you think you will just stand up from Calabar, enter night bus or flight and come to Abuja and start seling gold or trinkets to women?

You can anway, just give yourself 10yrs- a 10yr gestation period to network and not just know people, but get people to accept you, and perhaps, just maybe, your business can get some traction. 10yrs isnt too long na, abi?

Better think of a mass market business- a business where, whether you knkw anybody or not, you will sell- food stuff, cement, phone, etc

If you insist on the luxury niche, on a no name basis, come with good money and rent a shop in the highbrow malls- like Silverbird, Jabi LakeMall, Ceddi etc. They charge by the square meter. 100,000naira per square meter. A square meter is the space you can place a chair- one plastic chair.8 or 9mill shop rent per year. Wetin you dey sell?

So go figure.

And anyway, those who have shops in those malls, you think they make profit? They just have those places for address purposes. They dont make any profit, but profit was never the purpose anyway. Every four years, conciding with every electoral cycle, those shops become empty and new tenants arrive.

So, luxury items from Calabar? Hmmm...think well o. If you go and get a shop in Kubwa..or Maraba..well, its no longer luxury items you are selling and you can get some business..but inside town? Hehhehe

Come to abuja and sell female clothes- you may succeed, locate yourself in Maraba, Kubwa, Dei Dei- have a shop, support with online sales and you will be good. Or a small corner shop in Gwarinpa.Or go rent a shop in Wuse Market(1.3m a year) or Utako Market and sell provisions or FMCG's or food stuff, or crayfish- you will see enough money to be comfortable, not rich. Or try selling building materials in Nyanyan or Madalla.

Forget this luxury item business wey u dey talk. I sure say u never even hold real saudi abi white gold for hand for that calabar wey u dey so.

My 2kobo. Listen to these children like Sweetcunt at your own peril.
Thank you.

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Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by SweetCunt97(f): 11:43am On Jul 30, 2020
LastProphet:


Everything he said is the pure truth, a business leader in Abuja has said the exact same thing before. You have no idea the taste of high society Abuja ladies, nobody from calabar can dare to have anything to sell to them except the OP will start traveling to Turkey, Paris etc to pick goods their taste. Does the OP have N2-5M for shop in Maitama/Asokoro/Wise 2? Don't put people in trouble because you want to sound positive not all situations are positive
OK you are right.
Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by boyjo: 12:22pm On Jul 30, 2020
chukwuibuipob:
sad Woteva u do,don't engage in mini supermarket biz oo

Lol, care to explain further?
Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by excessmon(m): 1:46pm On Jul 30, 2020
U dis not answer my question?
Have u lived in the two places before?
GuyFawkes:
Emerging world my foot, a sleepy town meant for politicians and civil servants against a city of over 20M making it the 5th largest economy in Africa.
You gotta be kidding me.





Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by GuyFawkes: 2:09pm On Jul 30, 2020
excessmon:
U dis not answer my question?
Have u lived in the two places before?

I've lived in Abuja and i reside in Lagos presently.

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Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by MiddleDimension: 2:27pm On Jul 30, 2020
excessmon:
U dis not answer my question?
Have u lived in the two places before?

i have, and he is absolutely right! i just wonder where guys got the idea comparing Abuja with lagos when it comes to anything.
Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by MiddleDimension: 2:29pm On Jul 30, 2020
GuyFawkes:


I've lived in Abuja and i reside in Lagos presently.
don't mind those self deluded. someone comppare abuja with lagos as where business can thrive. how much do civil servants get paid again?
Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by Nobody: 2:56pm On Jul 30, 2020
Rgade:
Hmm... I don't know about lucrative,but I honestly can't stay in the same city with buhari.
Mehn!!! has it gotton to that level
Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by swagsguy(m): 4:07pm On Jul 30, 2020
I just completed my nysc and I av gotten an accommodation in Abuja airport road to be precise.

Kindly help me with list of places I can go and look for work in Abuja (places close to immigration and civil defence with be appreciated).

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Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by excessmon(m): 5:10pm On Jul 30, 2020
I’m sorry where did u stay in Abuja?
Location matters for business brother
MiddleDimension:


i have, and he is absolutely right! i just wonder where guys got the idea comparing Abuja with lagos when it comes to anything.
Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by Blankstare(m): 5:15pm On Jul 30, 2020
davidhobo:


Dont mind the foolish child called sweetcunt97 coming to argue with me, and give some one else false hope. Going by her/his moniker, she/he was born in 1997...a 23yr old trying to shit on time tested wisdom.

Just to explain to the OP again- you relocate or come to abuja if you have nothing to lose. You are on ground zero in your previous location, so if you come to abuja and remain on ground zero, you have lost nothing- you were grounded before anyway. Same level.

If however, you hit luck and move to level 40, or even 20, you have done well. But if you were on level 20, in your previous place and come.to abuja tp drop to level 10 or 0? Regret will be your name

Its like playing kalo kalo or Betnaija..if you feel you can chance the odds, by all means come. But like BeNaija, 99.9% of the gamblers always lose.Whatsoever you tell the OP, he/she is going to come anyway, he has already made up his mind.

But know this:

No one is gon' buy luxury items from you off the bat. Thats a niche market, its not volume driven, you need just few customers who sustain you- problem is getting the few customers.

You sell luxury goods, so you must get a shop in a highbrow area- if you manage to get a shop in any of those average looking plazas like Habib, or any such, rent is 5mill a year.

Can you afford that? Even if you can afford it, they still wont come cos they dont know you. The very next shop, you will see another Hajia selling gold, the same gold you are selling and she is making money and you are wondering why she is having plenty customers while no one is coming to your shop.

Know why, they are patronizing her, even in that sleazy, dirty plaza? Network, connect- contacts. They can vouch for her and her authenticity.

All the people coming there, schooled with her or her husband at uniMaid, Fed Poly Birnin Kebbi, college of education, Dass or ABU Zaria Or her father was one of the early allottees in Abuja in 1991 who housed many of the movers and shakers of the city now for free then, so now they patronize her business.

Or they belong to same lesbian club or homsexual society or one large family in the north.or will you put luxury items in the booth of your car and start driving around offices, begging people to buy?

Sorry go be your name.

Somebody must hold you by the hand and introduce to people or clique who will push your hustle. Or you think you will just stand up from Calabar, enter night bus or flight and come to Abuja and start seling gold or trinkets to women?

You can anway, just give yourself 10yrs- a 10yr gestation period to network and not just know people, but get people to accept you, and perhaps, just maybe, your business can get some traction. 10yrs isnt too long na, abi?

Better think of a mass market business- a business where, whether you knkw anybody or not, you will sell- food stuff, cement, phone, etc

If you insist on the luxury niche, on a no name basis, come with good money and rent a shop in the highbrow malls- like Silverbird, Jabi LakeMall, Ceddi etc. They charge by the square meter. 100,000naira per square meter. A square meter is the space you can place a chair- one plastic chair.8 or 9mill shop rent per year. Wetin you dey sell?

So go figure.

And anyway, those who have shops in those malls, you think they make profit? They just have those places for address purposes. They dont make any profit, but profit was never the purpose anyway. Every four years, conciding with every electoral cycle, those shops become empty and new tenants arrive.

So, luxury items from Calabar? Hmmm...think well o. If you go and get a shop in Kubwa..or Maraba..well, its no longer luxury items you are selling and you can get some business..but inside town? Hehhehe

Come to abuja and sell female clothes- you may succeed, locate yourself in Maraba, Kubwa, Dei Dei- have a shop, support with online sales and you will be good. Or a small corner shop in Gwarinpa.Or go rent a shop in Wuse Market(1.3m a year) or Utako Market and sell provisions or FMCG's or food stuff, or crayfish- you will see enough money to be comfortable, not rich. Or try selling building materials in Nyanyan or Madalla.

Forget this luxury item business wey u dey talk. I sure say u never even hold real saudi abi white gold for hand for that calabar wey u dey so.

My 2kobo. Listen to these children like Sweetcunt at your own peril.

Respect boss! Can I pm you? I have something to ask sir.

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Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by lixingxing: 2:53am On Jul 31, 2020
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Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by Olayinka777(m): 4:21am On Jul 31, 2020
iamadonis2:


I can safely say I'm a force to reckon with in my current business location.
If u are,then why relocate to an unknown business environment?

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Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by Kfed4ril(m): 2:54pm On Jul 31, 2020
Chris525:

Like the guy above stated, its mostly about what you're into. Bear in mind that Abuja population is about 3M and a huge chunk of that number are over 40.


Oga stop chunning false info, like it’s stands now if we do another census today Abuja will be 2nd after Lagos.

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Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by Chris525: 3:29pm On Jul 31, 2020
You really should shut up but I dont know how to ask you to, without offending you.


Kfed4ril:


Oga stop chunning false info, like it’s stands now if we do another census today Abuja will be 2nd after Lagos.
Re: Is Abuja Still Lucrative For Business? by Kfed4ril(m): 3:33pm On Jul 31, 2020
Chris525:

You really should shut up but I dont know how to ask you to, without offending you.


The funny thing is you know nothing about Abuja and I’m telling, but all you care about is how to insult me, compare Abuja 10 years back and now, almost every major road now experience traffic.

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