24-Hour Power Supply in Aba — A Turning Point for Local and National Businesses
The fashion brand Beyond Clothing NG has announced through its Instagram account that it now enjoys a 24-hour uninterrupted power supply in Aba, Abia State. In an enthusiastic post titled “Aba Has Done It! 24-Hour of Power Is Here!”, the company celebrated the milestone made possible by Aba Power and Geometric Power, describing it as […]
10 Best Businesses to Start in Aba, Abia State
Aba is one of Nigeria’s leading commercial cities. It, along with Onitsha, is a major economic nerve centre in the country’s South East, with markets attracting visitors from across West Africa. But for all of its entrepreneurial allure, the aspiring founder may struggle to carve out ground to thrive on within it. Unless you […]
Abia State Makes Noble Igwe #MADEINABA Ambassador
Local entrepreneurship is not something that gets a lot of good rep even among Nigerians. We do not rate our own for the most part so, talent when it actually shows does not get noticed. Aba has suffered from this notion for the longest time and though it can be viewed both ways, what […]
2019 CN’s Top 100 Emerging SMEs: Seams Classics
Seams Classics is a clothing line based in the city of Aba in Abia State. It produces moderately priced corporate and casual wear for men. The clothing brand was founded in 2018 by a group of entrepreneurs and fashion enthusiasts. Read more about 2019 CN’s Top 100 Emerging SMEs Although the company began in 2018, […]
The New Aba Women Protest and the Trials of Okezie Ikpeazu
In a fashion reminiscent of the Aba Women’s Riots of 1929 where women came out en masse to resist an unfair tax imposed on the people by the colonial administration, a group of women in Aba city on Tuesday, September 8, staged a mass protest. Hundreds of women who were mostly traders came out for […]
A German Agency Wants to Develop 5,000 Leather and Garment Businesses in Aba
The German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ) says it plans to boost the production and trading capacities of about 5,000 leather and garment businesses in Aba in the coming months. The organization intends the program to be part of a countrywide effort, which should help improve several industrial value chains in locations across Nigeria. Yakubu […]
Google is Taking its Digital Skills Program to Manufacturers in Aba
Google announced on Wednesday that it will be bringing its Digital Skills program to businesspeople in Aba. The South Eastern city’s commercial sector is being targeted as part of the tech giant’s ongoing effort to raise the IT proficiency of people across the continent. Google’s Head of Brand and Reputation for Sub Saharan Africa, Mojolaoluwa […]
Did You Know? Ariaria Market, The Heart of South Eastern Nigeria’s Leather Trade
Ariaria sits to the west of the older section of the city of Aba. It sprawls over a vast swathe of land, straddling three local government areas, and heaves with the noise of an ever lively humanity. For six days on a typical week, it’s the power house of South Eastern Nigeria’s leather making industry. […]
Made In Nigeria: Luxury Tricycle
Proven more times than it has been recorded —pure innovation only births more innovation. Nigerians are sure not taking a back seat on this one with mind blowing well-thought creations that keep the hopes for our great country burning. About a month ago, it was the brilliant production of an electrically powered tricycle made in […]
Nigeria’s Multi Billion Naira Leather Industry
Kano, Northern Nigeria’s foremost commercial hub, is home to a large leather industry. Its tanneries are a hive of activity every other day, with men working hides and skins into material suitable for cobbling into shoes and threading into bags. These traditional style tanneries are among the country’s oldest; but they’re also its biggest suppliers […]
Made In Nigeria: Electric Keke Napep Unveiled
An electric tricycle (locally called keke napep) has been unveiled in Aba. Ifeanyi Okafor, who hails from Umuchu, Anambra State, successfully manufactured the tricycle. An Alternative A graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Ifeanyi Okafor explains that the project began in 2015, during the fuel scarcity that hit the country in May/June. Angered by […]
Billions Of Naira Found In Aba
With over 800,000 pairs of shoes and several thousands of clothing goods produced daily, Nigeria is sleeping on a gold mine called Aba. For example, Ariaria market is one of the largest commercial hubs in West Africa filled with some of the most enterprising and hardworking people on the planet. They are pillars of strength […]
Aba, South Eastern Nigeria’s Thriving Commercial Hub
The city of Aba appears on maps as a built up space straddling the intersection of roads from Port Harcourt, Owerri, Umuahia, and Ikot Ekpene. That patch is, in fact, a bustling urban sprawl, one of Nigeria’s major commercial hubs, and home to over a million people. Aba is the economic heartbeat of Abia State […]
Nigeria’s Commercial Hubs: Five Cities That Really Matter
A list of possible locations for significant investment could be drawn up based on factors which are considered important for the thriving of such set ups. Nigeria presents great opportunities and grave challenges, but for those who race into the thick of things to fill its market’s gaps, the rewards exceed the risks. But the […]