Phones have become a critical part of our lives. We virtually live on our smartphones and use them for so many operations every day. In Nigeria and other African countries, there is still a struggle over how to stabilize the electricity supply and make it readily available. It is so bad that some places struggle to have 3 hours of electricity in a whole day. While this is worrisome, it has created a business avenue for some people to explore.

This business opportunity is found in the charging of phones. With the kind of heavy tasks our mobile phones undertake nowadays, the battery would inevitably run down at least once a day for a very strong phone battery. With the epileptic power supply, people are always looking for an avenue to charge their phones. A person can set up a phone charging business and make some cool cash from it. It doesn't require a lot of capital to start, and it is easy to run and manage. The first thing you need to consider is location. It has to be in a populated area so you can get a level of patronage that would help you break even. Once you have found the location, you can proceed to set up the business.

The first thing you would need in your phone charging business setup is a shed or housing for you and the phones. It must be constructed in a way that would protect everything inside it from rain and sun. A 4' by 4' cubicle is enough. It can be made from wood or tarpaulin. After the building is done, you have to get a power generator that will supply electricity for the phones to charge. Since charging phones doesn't consume electricity, a small generator is enough. That can be gotten for less than $100. With the housing and power generators secured, the next thing to secure are our phone chargers.

You would need to buy fast chargers that can be used to charge phones at full speed. I recommend Oraimo chargers for their charging speed and durability. You can get up to 20 pieces of it. This won't cost more than NGN20,000. With all these secured, just look for something that would indicate that phones are being charged there. You can get a flex or just write it somewhere that would be legible. Customers would start trooping in to charge their phones. Make sure you give an identity tag to every customer that brings a phone to be charged.

With the small generator, fuel consumption would be low. You might use 5 to 6 liters a day to run the entire business. And you might make up to NGN 2,000 a day at the minimal level. If you take the monthly income from this business, it can be somewhere close to NGN6,000. That is the entry-level salary of a banker in Nigeria. This is a lucrative business that can be done by anyone in Nigeria and other parts of Africa with power challenges.