Some local businesses that people can start to gain profits.

1. Dry cleaning services and General cleaning services

This is another dirty job that can yield a good return if properly managed. Most times, people are requiring the services of a dry cleaner due to busy schedules.

2. Catering and event planning.

When running a catering business on a small scale or local scale, there is a lot of work involved. You will get really dirty when decorating halls, you will be exhausted from shopping and preparing different cuisines for the guests of an event by the good thing is that it pays.

3. Sale of firewood.

The demand of firewood is high in Nigeria with the rise in cost of gas and kerosene, many are turning back to using firewood for cooking especially large quantities of food for commercial purpose or domestic use.

4. Manual production of soaps.

Detergents, liquid and bar soaps are essential cleaning agents that play essential roles in homes, offices, shops and anywhere humans need to make use of the soap.

5. Sale of food stuff at markets.

Selling in markets is not easy as it appears even though one has to sit down in a dense environment and sometimes under poor conditions to sell the returns of sales is high.

6. Running a car wash.

All that needed for well functioning car wash is constant availability of water, good services and cleaning agents i.e soap.

7. Repair of shoes and bags.

This is an essential services that every environment can not do without some cobblers also make shoes for sale.

8. Roadside restaurants.

A roadside restaurant is very easy to set up, it is not capital intensive and it’s profitability depends solely on the ability of one to make mouth watering delicacies.

9. Farming.

A lot of farms are presently springing up in both rural and urban areas in Nigeria people are investing in both animal husbandry and crop farming, because food is a necessity and people have to feed, the market for products like catfish, eggs, and chickens from paltry, pork, etc is very large.

10. Beauty and barbing saloons.

Lots Of Nigerians are skilled and very creative. Starting up a local saloon is not tedious and it quite affordable.