: A Fresh Look At One Of The Lucrative Business In Nigeria
The fairly used clothes known as the “OKIRIKA” clothes is one of the most fast selling businesses in Nigeria and Africa at large.The youth, low income earners who cannot afford to buy high price clothes are the ones who patronize the okirika clothes the most.
Most people choose to buy the okirika clothes because they believe it has a good quality compare to so called new ones. Most Nigerians gravitate to buy the “okirika” or fairly used clothes because they are more affordable to get
Moreso,a lot of people especially the low income earners and youth believe that most designers and clothes worn by fashionistas that are bought at higher purchase can also be equally be found in the okirika bales and sold at cheaper price.
Furthermore, okirika is also a profitable business it requires no or very little capital and need no advertisement because it is easily recognisable and attract people attention.
Besides, selling okirika clothes does not require you been educated or not but will need extra effort and persistent. You can also make okirika business as a backup for your main job while in the long run, it turns out that most of the people who are not able to afford new clothes prefer to patronize okirika clothes because it is what they can afford and they believe that it has better quality than the new ones.
By:Islamiyat Adeyemi Student of
I-con Universal polytehnic
