Nigeria: 3 Lucrative and simple Business Ideas

Hello Nigerians, this one is for you.

For some years now, have been chewing on the possibility of starting something of my own in the areas am about to disclose to you, as you can imagine I failed, partly due to time factor and partly due to capital factor, reason owned to the fact that am handling a project already in one of our schools. Then so, it is my pleasure to share these ideas with you, you might want to try them out.

In the present state of our country you know so well that you cannot ask what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country, in this light what can you do for your country? The country is recessing and we don’t blame anybody for that. I strongly believe it is a carried forward in our economic history and so we must take it or watch the country fall, which is not going to happen anyway. So taking it is the correct option.

First, where in history did we carry forward? In the beginning of times before the advent of crude oil in Nigeria, we strongly survive on something else natural to our environment. We still had international trade. The advent of crude oil made us to drop our hoes. I mean weeding hoe. And now the crude oil is going down, our country is going down, it is time to look back and stand up from the point we fell.

What can you do for your country? Feed the Nation. Yes, get paid feeding your country. Be a good citizen feed the nation. This three business ideas will be telling you areas in which you can uniquely become rich feeding the nation despite the current atmosphere in the country. Let me jump right into it.

Agriculture is wide, but I’ll suggest three areas you might not have noticed, starting with the oil palm.

The oil palm: if you are anywhere located in the southern or eastern region of the nation this one is more for you. Oil palm tree is mostly found in the south eastern regions of our country, its extract which is the red oil is used on a daily basis almost in all families across the nation for different purposes. In factories it could be used in the production cosmetic and toiletries like soap etc. Everything from the plant which includes the nut seed, the nut shell, the nut fiber, and the leaf is economically important making it one of the highest required commodity in the country.

Are you thinking this sounds good but will required a lot of capital and time to start? The answer is no. The reason for bringing this on is because I know a way and am about to tell you. Listen up.

Do you know that you do not need to start planting palm to be an owner of a palm farm? Yes. There are different families in the rural community who needs immediate money to solve their immediate problems, most of these families give out palm farms or more specifically the palm trees for a certain period of time and for certain amounts, always as cheap as two thousand Naira a stand. And to add to that, the money paid to the family must and can only be returned at the end of the contract. Failure to refund loaned cash you are free to keep harvesting and selling till you are paid back in full. 

Heads Up: Make sure you get a legal backing, otherwise keep your cutlass by your side, I don’t have to tell you about ruralities.

Palm trees are capable of supplying you stocks of fruit in a month which is at least worth N3, 000 per stand. So if you had ten stands you know what that would be at the end of twelve months. At the end, needing family gets cash for their problem, you get palm for your money and the nation gets food for their survival, case close.

The next idea is the one I’ll call the pathfinder. Because it is almost like a new path, although it has been done before, it has never been colorful and sufficient enough as we deserve. So I give to you;

Bee keeping: I can see myself smiling as am writing this. This is my favorite, I will tell you why. I don’t know how to package this information to you but believe me, it’s the best idea you can ever get with less or no price and still make very high income while also feeding our nation. 

Our old people do not taste the sweetness of our world anymore for fear of diabetics, our crops stand not pollinated because of the absence of our bees and so we are generally losing because of our careless attitude. Honey is a product gotten from the bees, in some part of the country people kill bees to take honey and I call that honey robbing. People who engage in honey robbing do not understand the potential cost the country may have to pay in the future and more, they do not know of any proper way of getting clean honey. 

Honey gotten from robbery is often not very clean, it is often as wild as the forest it is gotten from, sticks and particles from burnt bushes are everywhere in it.

But there is an accepted way of getting honey, it is called bee keeping or if you like bee owning. Most people get so scared at the word bee, you are wise to fear bees, it is dangerous if you miss rules, that is why you cannot embark on proper bee keeping without learning the techniques.

Ignoring the phobia for bees there is a lot to make out of it while feeding the nation. Bees are as natural as they are, you don’t buy them like you would buy chicks to start a poultry farm instead you attract them. That is one of the reason why you need to learn how to keep bees. Each bee keeping container which is called “Hive” could cost you less than N5, 000 depending on if you have the necessary materials like wood and some carpentry skills. But the outcome is likely going to be between 15,000 and 20,000 if you were giving out each bottle of your honey at a thousand naira.

The good news about this tip is that you don’t need a specific land, you can use any abandoned bushes after taking proper permission of course. But for commercial purpose which you could need up to fifty hives or more, then you need a farm of your own. But it is good to start small and expand. The world needs honey and our country have bees, tap into this natural life and make good money for just giving the bees a place to stay.

Heads up: you don’t feed bees, if you try you may have to run a longer mile than the one you came by, especially African Bees, that is why it is my favorite.

The third suggestion will require a little planting skill and a farm, but little startup fee. This is the;

Plantain plantation: have you ever thought about a large hectare of land cultivated with just plantain what it would bring to the owner? I personally love eating plantain ripe or unripe so have thought about it, let me tell you about it.

Plantain is becoming expensive even more than yam itself in our country today. Sometimes you don’t even find it to buy, which makes it one of the highly wanted commodity in the country. Plantain do not need any secondary processing except that you have to cut it from its tree and rub the stalk to the sand and there you go, sell it or eat it. Obviously not raw except for ripe ones.

The good thing about plantain plantation is that the plant has a way of multiplying on its own. If you began with three at the end of two years you could have extra nine growing without your permission, they don’t follow rules. The only farming skill you need is trimming the grass, molding the plantain based with soil and the harvesting skill which is simply to cut the fruit down. You could chose to sell it yourself or you could channel it to some local or international sellers. Job done. so you feed the nation, watch your farm expand without your consent and get paid doing so. How simple.

Our country is filled with many and different potentials some of us fail to see it, others see it but can’t tap from it. I see, so am showing you. Tap from it, let’s grow again Nigeria.