List Of Home Businesses to start with low capital in Nigeria

Read this list of home businesses to start with low capital in Nigeria.

If you live here in Nigeria and are unemployed. You are a stay-home-mom, housewife or job seeker. There are some things you can do to earn money instead of being jobless, penniless and unhappy.

 

There are so many businesses to start from home with low capital.  These business do not need you paying rent for an office or getting a market shop.

 

With little or no start up capital you can kick start these businesses from home and grow while making daily profits on sales of your goods or services and still finding time for family errands and kids school runs.

When you start this small home business and do not know how to make sales or find customers. Start by going to shops and supermarkets around you. When you get to a supermarket, ask to see The Manager. Go along with a sample of your product. Discuss with him or her, show them what you produce and try to convince them that customers will need that without being unreal.  You might convince them to let you start supplying to their supermarket and that’s how big sales will start. You may not even need to convince anyone as what you have could be what they have been looking for to display for shoppers.

 

At the end of the day the unemployed or stay home mum is happy and  empowered. while earning her own money and spending without obtaining permission from anyone. You can work from home and make money.

 

 

This list names all the easy jobs you can work fro home and earn money.

 

 

 

  • Auto gele Business: The duration of apprenticeship for auto gele making is very short and flexible to accommodate a family.Auto gele making is very lucrative in Nigeria as many young ladies who attend events do not know how to tie gele themselves. They buy already made geles and just wear for the weekend Nigerian party. There are lots of YouTube videos on how to tie Nigerian gele.

    Watch videos and learn from home. Google “How to make auto gele” and you’ll be amazed at the videos online or you can learn from an auto gele maker at the market. Contact her, ask how you can learn, pay the small fee charged, and learn quickly.

    Display your beautifully tied gele in a show glass in front of your house. Even by your gate. With your phone number displayed there and maybe the gate-man keeping an eye for you.

    Your work will attract buyers.

  •  Tying of Nigerian gele is also selling fast as not everyone likes to wear the auto gele.
    Some of us just like the normal gele as it used to be. People who tie gele most times do not need office space. They do home deliveries by going to tie for their clients at event venues or makeup studios.
    A gele tying professional can just fix a good air-conditioned container by her house and work from there with enough time to drop and pick kids from school with ease.
  •  Sale of cold drinks. This is the harmattan dry season. With the hot humid weather, cold drinks sell really fast. They don’t need much money to start. Owning a cold fridge or freezer is the first step to starting a business selling cold drinks and even iced blocks.
  •  Popcorn business is lucrative in Nigeria. It can be supplied to shops and sold at churches on Sundays.
  • Many small businesses in Nigeria operate from empty shipping containers. With your container beside the house, you need some money to purchase work equipment like hair clippers, some simple furnishing, a carpet, ventilation, and your hair barbing salon kicks off immediately.
    First, remember to learn the trade so you become the best around your area. Don’t try to learn with your customers’ heads.
    That’s unacceptable and if you are not locked up, your business might close down as soon as it starts.
    Always try to learn from the best barbing salon before you start yours.
    Get more knowledge from watching Online videos and make sure you perfect the art because you are working on people, touching them.
    Your hygiene has to be top-notch. You don’t want any customer to smell the sweat on your body while you work on them. The same goes for every business person.
  • Fairly used clothes and shoes popularly called Okrika bend down boutique. These are home businesses that sell both in cities and rural areas. There are women in this business who open bales of clothes in front of their houses and people gather to select and pay.
  •  Sale of cooked noodles and eggs. This business can be done right in front of your home depending on the area in which you live.
  • Cooked beans and dodo plus bread sold mostly in the morning for breakfast eaters who rush to work with no time to cook breakfast.
    If you cook well, the food will advertise itself and in no time customers will start queuing in the morning and at night if you have the time to also sell food in the evenings.
  • Learn to braid hair. Learn from the best hairdressing salon in your area and quickly start yours in your neighborhood or around your home area.
  •   It’s very easy to learn about wig making. Check Google and meet wig makers around your area or market.  When you start, if your wigs are good, shops and supermarkets will order for display and sale. People will start booking and you’ll make money selling your own wigs. Many hair salons these days make wigs and you can learn from them.
  •  Aside from wig making and gele, what about beauty makeup. It’s a hot cake now. If you are good with face makeups, then it won’t take you long to learn the art and start charging good money.
    The business advertises itself when people look at your clients and ask who did the makeup for her?
    You’ll get referrals and bookings. When you start making bridal makeup, you know you have hit a jackpot oh.
  •  A container beautifully set beside your house can be used as a nail and eyelash studio.  You need a very short time to learn. Use Online videos and also book with an expert to teach you the tricks. This is what really sells today.
  •  Roasted plantain and peppered grilled fish is a street food many Nigerians love. It is a major on our list of home businesses you can start with low capital. If you live in a busy area. This business will make money for you.
      •   Plantain chips business: This requires very little start-up capital. All that’s needed to start is vegetable oil, some bunches of plantain, cellophane bags for packaging, and knowledge on how to keep them fresh and crunchy.
    •  Roadside sale of fried yam and peppered sauce
  • All the listed small businesses are jobs you can work from home and make money as an entrepreneur, being your own boss, and working with your time.
  • More Home businesses you can start while unemployed in Nigeria
    • Akara balls with Pap sold early for breakfast and in evenings too if you live in a busy area.

 

Supply of small chops., Make and properly package small chops. Supply to supermarkets and shops around. If you are good, in no time people will start booking for event supplies.

Nigerians love small chops. If you can make small-sized Nigerian puff puffpeppered snail, Peppered fried beef or gizzard, samosa, and spring rolls, then you just made small chops.
They sell quickly.
You’ll make so many sales just producing small chops from the comfort of your kitchen. Make arrangements and Supply to fast food restaurants near you and in no time you start taking orders from customers.

  • Our list of home businesses may not include areas of needs around where you live. What is that need in your neighborhood that you can supply and make money from the services or goods supplied? Think well.
  •  Laundry business has become even more lucrative as more and more young people get busier by the day. The stress and demands of jobs can make workers chose to just rest on weekends rather than do laundry.With the short term and cheap apprenticeship, you acquire the skills and start washing from home. In Nigeria, businesses like these are easy to start because sometimes all you need for a start is notice and your phone number placed on the fence of your home.
  •  A small poultry farm behind your house in a cage beautifully crafted by a carpenter can fetch you some good cash when you begin sale of eggs, live chickens, and even frozen ones to neighbors who then start referring more customers to you. Depending on the size. small poultry farms are easy to manage.
  •  Fish and snail farming to is something to try. Start small and grow. As more people cut down on red meats, more chickens and snails get sold.
    With a small notice placed on your fence or gate, customers will surely come.
    One of each can be picked to start with. Small mobile fish ponds are sold at markets. You need a water tank (Reservoir) erected with a constant water supply.Feeds are also sold at the market. Snail farming is cheaper to start depending on the number of snails you want to kick-start with.
    If you have space in your compound/backyard. Google HOW TO START SNAIL FARMING AT HOME and see how easy it is and you can comfortably manage a small snail farm while still taking care of family and little kids.
      • Get a sewing machine, enroll, and learn how to sew.
        Within a few months, you would have learned how to make good dresses and if you pay attention to details, clients will come looking for you because your products will advertise themselves. Tailoring is very very lucrative and there are never enough tailors, that is the most reason your tailor disappoints.
        The good tailors are mostly overworked because they get fully booked all year round especially during the holidays and festive seasons.
        Sew dresses for women or babies and you’ll hit a jackpot soon.  Be dedicated and keep to appointments.
        You get better with time and your well-made dresses will speak for you. Getting a good tailor around you is difficult in Nigeria.
        If they are not overbooked, they disappoint clients or just sew something different from what you asked for. From tailoring good dresses,k do you know you can one day become a fashion designer?
    •   There is a long list of home businesses you can choose from and some may not even be on this list but you can create by thinking deep and out of the box.
  • Mini importation of wigs, hair extensions, and other beauty products.
    They are very affordable when you import from Aliexpress and other good Online shops You can read up our many posts by Dee on HOW TO START IMPORTING GOODS FROM ALIEXPRESS TO NIGERIA.
    It’s a series of importation posts that will give you all the needed knowledge for Online shopping. Beauty products sell fast.
    With a computer or mobile phone and internet connection, you can start importing right from the comfort of your bedroom.
    Check out reliable shopping agents from China to Nigeria.
    Networking is also helping so many stay home moms make their own money. If you have friends and neighbors, you can start your networking business from there. See also HOW TO MAKE MONEY WITH LONGRICH PRODUCTS
  •  My blogging business is also something I do from home. Home businesses should include blogging.
    With your laptop and internet, all you need now is to identify your passion and a niche. Google how to create a blog and you have started and on your way to earning your own little or big money, depending on the time dedicated to building your online business.

Well, if you like to work from home and be your own boos but could not think of how to start, The good news is, from today, you can work from home.

Start somewhere. Start with what you have. It doesn’t have to be big. In no time your small business will make you proud of yourself.

I hope you pick one from our long list of home businesses to start with low capital. If you can think of any other home-based business, please add it in the comment section below to help the unemployed Nigerian unsure of how to earn money from home.,

All the best t starting your small business at home and growing from there.

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