Top businesses to start with less than N50,000

PLANTAIN CHIPS:

Plantain chips are literally the second most popular snacks after beef rolls that are sold on the traffic in Nigeria. People stuck in traffic, especially Lagos, constantly reach out to street traders to buy plantain chips and a drink.
You could take advantage of this low-cost business opportunity to make plantain chips and sell them through people who market the snack in traffic or kiosks around public environments like bus stations, schools, and more.

MAKEUP ARTIST:     There are so many popular makeup artists today, causing the lucrative nature of the venture to drive a lot of females to want to become one. With weddings, occassions, and events happening every weekend, some makeup artists make as much as 150,000 Naira from some clients by simply just applying their art. Some have makeup studios where people could visit for an emergency facial retouch, while others run creative makeup artistry that are used in movies to create different looks in a person.

You could tap into the lucrative nature of the makeup artistry business if you have a wide network, charge a modest fee depending on the client and nature of the job and gradually grow from there.

POPCORN:People buy snacks ever now and then, and popcorn is one of the most selling snacks, because people eat it in their home, along the road, in their shops, vehicle and even in the cinema’s. Staring popcorn business doesn’t required a shop to get started, in most cases it only required an exposed environment. Popcorn business has no gender discrimination and if you get the right tools for popcorn, the business is totally stress free, also you can be making good amount of money daily if you are in a busy location.

The requirements to start popcorn business are popcorn machine, kernel (corn), butter, groundnut oil, sugar, salt, flavor nylon, a busy road or market. You don’t need to rent a shop, you can partner with someone in his/her shop since you won’t be disturbing them or you can get an umbrella, clean up any free space in a busy area and start your business. In some cases you may be required to pay some token amount to the local government council to start your business there. It not more than 2k.

Small popcorn machine is 9k

Umbrella is 2k

bag of popcorn 5k

To prepare popcorn, take 3 tablespoons oil, ½ teaspoon salt, ½ cup popping corn, 3 tablespoons butter melted in a large, heavy-bottomed saucepan, add the oil, salt or sugar and popping corn. Turn the heat to medium, cover the pot with a lid left slightly ajar, and shake once or twice. The corn kernels will begin to pop within a minute or two. Once the popping slows to an almost stop, remove the pot from the heat. Transfer the popcorn to a large serving bowl and drizzle with melted butter, tossing well to combine. Add more butter or salt, if preferred.

You can carry out this as a practical at home before moving in to business, so you can get mastered to it very well.

FLASHING OF PHONE AND DOWNLOADING OF MUSIC,GAMES&APPLICATION:Do you have a laptop? Now it time to make good use of it. people want to have the latest music audio or video on their phones outside downloading, phones get infected with viruses every day, there is no way a virus infected phone owner would not want to flash the phone in other to work well again, this is where you comes in, you can do phone flashing, music and games downloading, and app downloading also together at the same time and this business doesn’t required a shop.

POULTRY: Agriculture product are expensive in Nigeria because business men don’t face it. You can do poultry farming right in your backyard. You can buy a big cage that can contain up to 2 chickens, and in just 4 months you can start selling them for 3,000 naira each specially in season of celebration. with 30000 you can start this business comfortably and there is no too much stress on it.

CANDLE:I don’t know more about this but my research shows it a lucrative business that has no stress, and with 50k you can start this business comfortably. With erratic power supply in the country, there is no doubt that production of candlestick is still a money-spinner. A sizable group of Nigerians rely solely on candle to battle the erratic power supply. With #10,000 Naira you can have a candle mould, which produces 16 candle sticks at a time and go about 50 times a day translating into 800 per day. This is a situation when you are starting with #20,000 to #25,000 Naira.

According to research to produce 16 pieces of candle does not take more than 10 minutes, all you need to do melt the wax, put in your mould, in 5 minutes after, put in another wax, which you must have melted, while the previous one congeals and you go on and on.

the requirements to start this business are Wax #1,000 Naira, mold cost #30,000 Naira, Thread #1,000 Naira, Packaging Nylons N1,500 Naira, heat source N600 Naira, Bowl, Ceiling Machine N2,000 and logistics.