We all know what cement block is used for, but few of us know the money making potential that exist in the business of block making. There is this woman, a neighbor who lives just a stone throw from where I previously lived in Ikorodu area of Lagos State. We call her Iya Ibeji; she used to live from hand to mouth like every other women in that area until about two and half years ago (as at march 2012) when she started a Bock Industry in a piece of property (land) she rented nears her house.
At first no one take her seriously, people where wondering how could a woman with children run a Block Industry successfully, that is if there is even a gain at all in it. People thought she would just fold up after some months, but that did not deter her from carrying on with her planned project
As at the last time I checked, she had fully acquired the previously rented land from the owner, built three flats of two bedrooms each for rent, renovated their previously dilapidated house, and bought a supply truck! All within two and half years of running the Block Industry.
The most interesting part of it all is that, she barely lift a finger. She is not the one mixing the cements, she is also not the one molding the blocks, neither is she the one loading or offloading the blocks. All she does is supervise, while her money work for her. At the end of every working day, she will smile to the bank with thousands of Naira made from the business.
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