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Nigerian Business Ideas: Aba Town Types of Businesses – Associated with this are – emerging business opportunities in Nigeria, investment opportunities in Nigeria 2017 & 2018, home business ideas in Nigeria, lucrative business ideas in Nigeria, hot business ideas in Aba Nigeria.

To start with, Aba is a town in the southeast geoplitical zone of Nigeria. Aba is the  commercial center of Abia State, Nigeria.  Aba  is made up of  two local government areas namely; Aba South and Aba North. Aba south is the main city centre and the heart beat of Abia State and  south-east Nigeria. The population of Aba today is extimated at a million people. Traditionally,  Aba is made up certain ancient  villages such as; Aba-Ukwu, Eziukwu-Aba, Obuda-Aba,Umuokpoji-Aba and other villages from Ohazu merged due to administrative convenience.  It lies along the west bank of the Aba River, and the roads leading to Port Harcourt, Owerri, Umuahia, Ikot Ekpene, and Ikot Abasi. This means that Aba is like a road junction of several major cities in South East and South South part of Nigeria.

Again, Aba belongs to the Niger Delta group of communities in Nigeria and as such is surrounded by oil wells between it and the city of Port Harcourt. Aba’s major economic contributions are in  Textiles, Palm Oil, food  processing, textile and garment making, handicrafts which has given rise to shoes and hand bags production. It houses also companies involved in pharmaceuticals, plastics, cement, cosmetics, breweries, and glass production.

Aba’s people love sports and therefore houses a popular football team called  Enyimba International F.C.

This articcle  aims at x-rayging the business opportunities/ideas in Aba town. I have tried to give details of Aba historical traditional commerial activities, existing industries and what are called the modern business opportunities or approaches to doing business. I tell you this post will spur you into series of business decisions that will bring the turn around in your fortunes. Just read on.

As indicted above, there are businesses which are peculiar with Aba town. And if you want to start a business  here you will do well to concentrate on these businesses that the people are known with.

Handicrafts – These have given rise to a variety of modern innovative business activities in the production of the following:

Textile and garment making – Aba is home to both traditional and modern textile and garment making outfits. This is a business line that has contributed so much to conserving foreign exchange for Nigeria as these are today being preferred to foreign fabrics.

Palm Oil – Palm oil production, storage, and export go on here in Aba. The palm oil production and marketing value chain is so much that it can accommodate a lot of businesses and individuals. The traditional local people and villages that make up Aba are still involved in this business both in the modern ways and in the traditional ways.

If you are  business man/woman you can notice a gap here to fill.

Food  processing –  The traditional people of Aba have seen their locality become an urban city. Now you can understand that the normal food processing business is still thriving here and presents opportunity for modern improvements. This could be where you will make your own break-through in business.

Garri processing mills, palm oil, yam and corn processing mills etc are needed in Aba even now.

The following are businesses that Aba has come to be known with right from the colonial days. Aba has a big Rail Station which promoted most of these businesses.

 Pharmaceuticals – This is another traditional industry that has thrived in Aba. Being a commercial centre of Eastern Nigeria, a lot of firms involved in this industry are located  in Aba. You can think of starting yours today. What this means is that there are a lot of retails and wholesale  medical stores and pharmaceutical stores in Aba.

Plastics Production – This is also another business line that is peculiar with Aba. Today this business is being boasted by the existence  of petrochemicals firms in and around Aba.

We have just highlighted the existence of petrochemical industry in and around Aba which is another business opportunity for you. Since this is an oil producing state, getting raw materials for these firms will not pose any problem to you.

 Cement – Aba houses  cement production companies. You would like to start yours today. I tell you, there are variety of  raw materials for this production within and around Aba.

Can I add here that this business and others mentioned already promote other business lines such as supply of raw materials and other production ancillary services, wholesale and distributorship businesses.

Cosmetics – This is also associated with Aba town. Cosmetics production, distribution, wholesale and retail outlets are possible.

Breweries – These are always where they can get raw materials and market and Aba provides these two factors. Today there are so many breweries in Aba, and associated with them are other business lines that engage in supply of raw materials and other related materials and services.

Glass – Glass companies are also here. If you need to localise your company to gain some elements of large scale production efficiencies, here is okay.