How much did you really earn in 2018? Did you earn up to N500K, N750K or N10 million this year? What are your financial and business projections for 2019 and how do you intend to achieve them? These questions are constructed to fire you up to make more money as 2019 dawns on us. If you are in Ojodu-Berger area of Lagos or anywhere else in the state, you can make as much money as you desire for yourself so long you put the right business structure in place.
What then are the business structures that can help you realize your financial objectives for the new year? Well, here are some of them –
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Food business
People eat everyday; anyone in Ojodu can make thousands of naira everyday running a food business. Whether a roadside eatery, a decent café, a prestigious restaurant, a mobile food truck, or some catering and food delivery business – good money stands to be made from the thousands of people that live and enter Lagos through Ojodu-Berger every day.
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Phone repairs and sales
If you are technology driven and able to repair mobile phones with ease, you stand to make a killing in Ojodu and other parts of Lagos. If you are able to set up a phone repair shop in any conspicuous location of the town, you will have hundreds of people bringing their damaged phones to you for repairs. Combine sales with this, and you are set for life.
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Taxi service
Considering the transportation problems that people are facing in Ojodu to other parts of Lagos, you could consider running a taxi business if you have a car. You could run from one point to the other or apply to work with Uber after downloading their app on your smartphone. In fact, you could also register to run an airport transport service where you transport air passengers coming and going out of the state to their various destinations.
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Daycare and creche
Since millions of women are working mothers in Ojodu and other parts of the state, they are always worried with where to keep their babies safe till their return from work. With a well-furnished and attractive daycare and creche service, you could charge per day or weekly to watch after babies till their mothers return in the evenings. You will even do better if you tutor the kids in elementary rhymes and other children materials to keep them busy while their mothers are away at work.
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Laundry and home-cleaning services
Many working adults in Ojodu, Ikeja, Ojota and other parts of Lagos are too busy to wash their clothes or do the dishes. But you can help for a fee. You could be placed on a retainership and paid weekly or monthly to do the laundry and undertake house-cleaning chores. But you will enjoy working with different families and earning good money doing this.
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Beautician – hair stylist and make-up artist
Since women are very particular about how they look, thousands of women in Ojodu desire beauty specialists to help with their facials. To this extent, they want require beauty experts who would make them look good for work every weekday and nicer for parties every weekend. If you are exceptional with hair-styling, facial makeups, headgear tying, and even manicure/pedicure, you will make hundreds of thousands of naira every month beautifying women for various occasions.
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Poultry and catfish farming
You can operate a poultry or catfish farm in Ojodu and supply to customers throughout Lagos. Out of the estimated 20 million people in the state, imagine supplying poultry products to up to 500 steady customers. You won’t even be able to meet up in supplying 500 faithful customers. Since Christmas and New Year and even Easter is here, supplying chicken during this festive periods will surely make you a million; add to this the millions more to be made from supplying eggs on a daily basis forever.
And then, if you are not interested in poultry farming, you can try your hands in catfish rearing. You could supply catfish to restaurants and eateries across the state, while you would definitely double your sales during festive periods.
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Real estate agency
Are you aware that real estate agents soon become landlords in Lagos? With thousands of people pouring into Lagos on a daily basis to invest or start some business, you could make a killing connecting people to housing vacancies across the state. You can charge significant commissions and fees in connecting people to vacant rooms, apartments, houses, offices, shops and even lands where they can build houses, malls and petrol stations among others.
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Employment agency
Most of the people coming into Lagos for the first time are unemployed, and a significant portion of these stay in Ojodu or some other areas for economic reasons. You can earn very good money monthly if you are able to set up an employment agency where you are paid nicely for getting people paid jobs. Just like the real estate agent, you earn fat fees if you are able to land employment for people coming into the state or for those wishing to switch jobs.
You only need to have a database of positions companies are looking to fill and then match suitable employees with these company positions. You can even go a step further to interview potential employees for given positions and then recruit on behalf of organizations.
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Event planning
Hundreds of social events hold in Lagos everyday. If you are very skilled at planning a great and befitting party, you could earn big bucks planning events for busy Lagos workers. From birthday parties to wedding receptions and conferences, you can make good money if everyone knows you as a reputable event planner. You must know how to book suitable event centres, plan for meals for hundreds of guests, recruit catherers and food servers for the occasion, hire DJs and photographers as well as take care of guests’ needs during such occasions. This does not have to be limited to Ojodu Berger-Ikeja alone; you can reside in this area but take your craft all over Lagos and become very rich in the process.