112 Creative Businesses for Youth Employment in Nigeria

Choose among the following 112 creative businesses that interest you, evaluate yourself, and get adequate training, mentorship, and source for resources. Register your business or enter partnership or franchising, start small, prepare for challenges, and act with excitement. https://yedis.org

1 Foodstuff sales

2 Cloth wears, shoes, etc

3 Cosmetics

4 Electronics

5 Supermarkets/Corporate gift

6 Binding materials

7 Spare parts (motor)

8 Books and stationery stores

9 Patent medicine store

10 Cocoa produce buyer

11 Sales of fresh fruits etc

12 Bread baking

13 Fruit juice

14 Yoghurt/Soya beans milk

15 Starch from cassava

16 Palm Kernel oil/ groundnut oil

17 Palm oil production

18 Garri from cassava

19 Biscuit making

20 Canned tomatoes

21 Cassava flour

22 Block-making industry

23 Soap and detergent

24 Cocoa vita – chocolate drinks

25 Production of cotton wool

26 Farming

27 Cashew juice

28 Animal Rearing and poultry

29 Production of face powder

30 Hair and body cream

31 Plank production (Sawmill)

32 Nylon cutting and sealing

33 Bookbinding

34 Popcorn / fried groundnut

35 Candle

36 Rice milling

37 Plastic crushing

38 Toilet roll production

39 Talking Drums

40 A bath sponge (kainkain)

41 Sandpaper

42 Maize flour snack (Aadun)

43 Hide and skin tanning

44 Mentholated balm and Rub

45 Rat killers

46 Alum

47 Kaolin processing

48 Nail polish remover

49 After shaving lotion

50 Sugar (cube and granulated)

51 Dry-gin/wines

52 Vegetable/curry powder

53 Chalk making

54 Goldsmith

55 Powdered detergents

56 Cow slaughter slab

57 Iron welding

58 Cloth weaving/dyeing

59 Adire/Kampala design

60 Furniture/wood polish industry

61 Wood/carving wood finishing

62 Blacksmith

63 Plastic-making industry

64 Packaging industry

65 Margarine butter production

66 Fisheries

67 Production of bleach (laundry)

68 Non-alcoholic wines

69 Bone crushing industry

70 Print ink production

71 Insecticide

72 Toothpaste

73 Palm kernel cake

74 food production

75 chips

76 Suya, dried/smoke fish

77 Pottery, broom etc.

78 Cane weaving

79 Calabash carving

80 Leatherworks

81 Mat weaving

82 Production of honey

83 Packaged drinks of water

84 Unisex salons

85 Fashion Designing

86 Transport services

87 Printing & Publishing

88 Dry cleaning

89 Computer services

90 Watch repairing

91 Catering services

92 Shoe Production

93 Car wash services

94 Painting

95 Bricklaying

96 Restaurant – food canteen

97 Cold room services

98 Plumbing

99 Electrician

100 Undertakers

101 Land surveying business

102 Pepper soup canteen

103 Motor mechanics

104 Vulcanizer, motor panel beater

105 Motor painter/auto spraying

106 Game centre

107 Educational services

108 Music, Drama

109 Rental services

110 Motor battery charger

111 Carpentry

112 Locust beans (iru).

  1. Other innovative ideas