Nigerian vendors and traders can now earn money daily during the 3 weeks NYSC orientation exercise.
If you are looking for a lucrative job opportunity this year, then register as a vendor in any nearby orientation camp.
You can use the proceeds from your business in camp as capital for a bigger venture or project.
The registration fee depends on the kind of business you want to set up in camp.
Once your registration has been approved, you are free to go on with your business without any kind of harassment.
If you think your business is too small to pay for registration, collaborate with another business on camp.
Here is the list of the best business to start and things to sell in the NYSC camp in Nigeria:
1. Food and Drinks
Corps members cannot do without food and drinks in the camp.
Selling food and drinks like minerals, yoghurt, zobo, and beers in camp will fetch you a lot of money.
Set up a restaurant at the Mami Market selling delicious meals (soups and swallow with rice), Indomie noodles, suya, fried yam, plantain, potato, moimoi, akara, smoothie, tea/pap and bread with beans and earn your daily cash.
Corps members are given three-square meals daily all through the duration of the exercise.
But majority won’t like the food from the camp’s kitchen and will want to get a feel of the local dishes in their host community.
At nights, the market also is meeting and dating joints for both corps members and camp officials.
If your meals are tasty and customer service is excellent, you will sell them every day.
2. Provision Shop
Launching your provision shop in the camp is a very lucrative business idea and opportunity in Nigeria.
Corps members and camp officials are prepared to burn through cash on products they need daily.
Here are some of the items to sell in your shop:
- Antiperspirant
- Bathing Towel
- Battery
- Bedsheets and Blanket
- Biscuits
- Body Cream
- Boiled Eggs
- Bread
- Bug Sprays
- Cardboard Paper
- Cardigan (White)
- Chewing Gum
- Chocolate
- Cloth Hangers
- Cold Sachet and Bottled Water
- Cornflakes
- Crocs
- Cutleries
- Detergent
- Dettol
- Erasers
- Face Towels
- Facial Cream
- Food Flask
- Fruit Juice
- Golden Morn
- Groundnuts
- Hair Cream
- Hand Fan
- Handkerchiefs
- Margarine
- Markers
- Mayonnaise
- Milk
- Mirror
- Mosquito Net
- Nail Cutter
- Padlocks and Keys
- Peanuts
- Pegs/Clips
- Pen
- Pencils
- Perfumes/Body Spray
- Pillow
- Plain White Round Neck T-shirt
- Plain White Rubber Shoes
- Plain White Shorts
- Plain White Sneakers
- Plastic Buckets and Bailer
- Razorblade
- Relaxer
- Sanitary Pads and Tampons
- Sharpeners
- Shaving Sticks
- Soap
- Sodas
- Sunglasses
- Tissue Paper
- Toothbrush
- Toothpaste
- Torch Lights
- Waist Pouch
- Water Bottles
- White Panties
- White Socks
- Wrist Watch
- Yogurt
To get the best out of this business, have high-in-demand products and an excellent customers service.
3. POS Business
Lot of corps members in camp will need cash for their daily transactions.
POS is a profitable business that enables you to offer diverse services like cash withdrawals, airtime purchases, payment of various bills, money transfers, and deposits.
Here are some of the benefits of starting this business in camp:
- Low capital startup (as low as ₦50,000).
- Huge customer base.
- High-profit margins. POS agents can make up to 5% on each transaction they carry out daily.
- Requires no technical skills. You only get directions on how to operate the POS machine, which an illiterate can do.
4. Photocopying Services
There will be a lot of printing, scanning, and photocopying of original files and documents by corps members and officials in the camp.
If you have a source of electricity or a generator, together with your machines, take it to the camp and start doing business.
5. Photography
With thousands of corps members engaging in different activities in camp, then, you should calculate how much you can earn from the photography business.
Starting this business is a great way of getting extra income or adding up to build your skill profile, if you’re truly devoted.
The photography market is saturated, new photographers always have a way of fitting in.
Many photographers have been able to find their niche and build a sustainable career.
To build and grow your business, you need both raw talent and a knack for marketing.
An ability “to market yourself” in camp is one of the most important factors to succeed.
With quality snaps shots during parade exercise, fast delivery and good customer interfacing skills, you will surely make it.
6. Phone Battery Charging
This business thrives more because a lot of people use phones a lot.
People in the camp use phones for calling, online browsing, and video streaming, and as such, they will need their batteries to be powered and charged.
There are also those people that use more than one phone.
With so many batteries in this environment, this service will be in high demand meaning more money to be earned.
All you just need to start this business is a good shop location in camp, generator, light bulbs, fan (ceiling or walls or standing fan), extensions, phone chargers, desktop chargers, and big power bank (optional).
The big power bank will be used to charge phones when your generator is not working or it can be used when you do not have many phones to charge.
You can pay an electrician to wire the socket board perfectly for you.
Be very careful with your customers phones, to avoid troubles.
Ensure you label their phones or batteries with their names using a permanent marker/cellotape.
There might be competitions but there is no way you will not get your own share of the market.
You can also sell phone chargers, power banks, air pods, and earpieces.
7. Laundry Services
Due to laziness, stress, or health issues, lots of corps members will not be able wash their clothes and kits by themselves while in camp.
So, they will need a helping hand for this.
In most camp, the corps members are not allowed to make use of electric gadgets.
You can earn good money from washing and ironing of corpers and officials clothes in the camp.
You can use an electric or charcoal pressing iron but ensure to be careful with it.
Label every shirt, khaki or jungle boot received with the corps member unique state code, so that when the owner comes back to claim his/her belongings, it will be very easy to locate with no mix-up with other clothes that are in your care.
Due to the number of clothes you may get a day, it is not advisable to do this business alone.
Corpers will get angry if you fail to deliver their clothes on time, and this will make you lose customers.
Buy a washing machine if you can afford one or better still partner with those who are willing to combine the business with you.
While some of them will be washing, some will be ironing, you will be on the field, marketing and others will be going from one hostel to another, packing dirty kits to their stand.
8. Tailoring (Clothes Mending)
Most of the kits supplied to majority of the corpers don’t suit them, hence many always love to adjust the size to fit them properly.
Also, there are usually cases where shorts tear during parade exercises in the field.
You can earn money in camp helping corps members to fix their torn wears.
