It’s interesting, isn’t it?
To be able to look some place and know everything that went down in your vicinity at a glance.
Or maybe you’re thinking, instead, what this has got to do with you or why you should care.
Well, if you carried out a search on what people are asking about Kubwa, you might just be surprised like I was. While you’re focusing on what puts bread on your table, someone somewhere is asking how old is Kubwa? (The answer by the way, is 32 years)
Someone else is wondering where in the world is Kubwa located in Abuja? You can tell that that someone is not a resident of Kubwa at the very least. Residents of Kubwa ask about things more internal to Kubwa, like where is Kubwa General Hospital? Where is Kubwa train station located? How much from Kubwa to Kuje? What happened in Kubwa Market today?
I also know that that someone is not a resident because I wondered the same thing about Lugbe and Mararaba until I visited these places myself. And unlike these places which fall under Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Kubwa is shockingly under a different local government area – Bwari.
If you go by size, Kubwa is far bigger than these other places under the Abuja municipal as Kubwa is the largest community in West Africa. That’s right. And it says so right here. So if your concept of municipal means a large city, like mine does, it’s a shock to find that Kubwa is not part of AMAC. Especially since Kubwa is a lot closer to Maitama than Lugbe and Mararaba.
So that’s how I know. Anyways.
There’s one question that I’ve seen asked that does not reveal if the person asking the question is a resident or non-resident. Hold on to that thought for a moment.
This post is about the myriad of opportunities that exist in Kubwa and how if you’re a resident you‘re really lucky to be living in Kubwa at this particular moment in time. If you’re looking for specific incidents or a particular event or the regular news stuff, this post is not for you. You can find all them news worthy reports at places like Nextdoor (They’re the neighbourhood news people) or national newspapers like Guardian, Leadership, Blueprint or simply Linda Ikeji’s blog because they carry the news from Kubwa from time to time.
This post is for you only if you’re focused or even just interested in knowing how you can live in Kubwa blissfully, maximising the opportunities that exist all around you. Some of them have to do with your talent, especially in the sports. Kubwa has a lot of fit nerds and sports lovers. Saturdays are joyously sporty days. That’s perhaps why an organisation like … came all the way from Germany to search for and recruit handball talents. They are already providing shoes, … and accommodation to participants and hope to transfer those selected to Europe for greener pastures.
This is generally seen in the proximity to the heart of town and Aso Rock, the seat of power. Then there’s the fact that Kubwa is a civil servants town and internal networking can be done to the tune of having a contact in almost every main government ministry, department or agency. The proximity to the heart of town and seat of power also instantly unlocks access to a higher quality of life and net worth in terms of your social circle as well as funding capital for businesses.
The first key to business opportunities that jumps out at you is the population of Kubwa. The residents were around 800,000 people in 2006 according to this 2017 National Population Commission survey. That number has since quadrupled at the very least. In fact, walking through the NNPC Junction in the evening and seeing the sea of faces returning from work or setting up their tables to sell stuff, you can fairly estimate that residents of Kubwa are in the millions.
This number represents business opportunities that range from physical goods to many many services, as much as you can think of and implement to make people’s lives better, easier and more enjoyable.
And lots of businesses are keying in. 2021 was definitely the year of the big launch in Kubwa businesses. It was as if the lockdown of 2020 helped people refine their thinking about the kind of business they would love to start and couldn’t wait for the world to return to normal to kick things off.
I mean, another Chicken Republic outlet opened on the same Gado Nasco way, Domino’s Pizza and Kilimanjaro were already in the offing and quickly escalated things. More supermarkets, retail stores and salons were opened. Schools and banks were not left out as they upped their ante in the scramble for new intakes and customers courtesy of the influx of migrants from neighbouring states in search of better opportunities following the economic meltdown. Demand for information and communication technology services skyrocketed just like the plazas that were springing up everywhere in Kubwa and are still springing up.
All this is nice. But how does it fall for you as an individual?
The key for you lies in making whatever talent, business or service you sprout to enjoy this freely available goodwill of people. In this age of social media, no business can afford to be isolated and living in a place like Kubwa could mean that if you actively pursue friends in your neighbourhood, both in person and offline, you guys will have something in common to bond with and that friendship will easily translate to hundreds of thousands in likes, hits and comments on your social media pages. Forums like Nairaland and Gistlover already enjoy this from afar, no reason for you to not go local with fan love.
Now, what’s that question that does not reveal if the person asking the question is a resident or non-resident of Kubwa? It is “what does Kubwa mean in Swahili?
The answer to the question is exactly what your dream cultivated in populous Kubwa is capable of becoming – big, large or great.
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