05/07/2026
This is Robo, a hard fried melon ball,spiced with salt and pepper and popular within Abeokuta axis. Served as a snack or a companion of Pap and soaked garri ! Nothing has changed in the production or presentation of this product since I got to know it. Hard as stone,brownish in colour and sometimes preserved in the oil used to fry it for longer shelf life. It's still produced and hawked by old women,almost becoming extinct but yet still attract patronage. Robo is perhaps one of the indigenous food items that could blow with refinement both in it's production and presentation...In same category is fried corn rings called- Kokoro. Take it or leave,Iru - locust beans,kulikuli- from peanuts are already on the international markets through refinement and branding. Look around your locality to spot and work on any product you can upgrade to a national and international acceptance level through improved processing, branding, quality control, packaging, certification, and marketing. Of course you will spend money but it's ultimately rewarding. Below are 50 examples with strong export and entrepreneurship potential.
Garri (premium, fortified, flavored)
Fufu flour
Poundo yam flour
Elubo (yam flour)
Cassava flour
Plantain flour
Sweet potato flour
Ofada rice
Acha (fonio)
Millet flour
Sorghum flour
Beans flour (for moi-moi and akara)
Egusi (melon seeds)
Ogbono seeds
Locust beans (Iru/Dawadawa)
Ground crayfish
Dried fish
Smoked catfish
Kilishi
Suya spice (Yaji). Robo. Aadun
Kuli-kuli
Roasted peanuts
Coconut chips
Chin chin
Kokoro
Donkwa
Boli (vacuum-packed roasted plantain)
Plantain chips
Yam chips
Tigernuts
Tigernut flour
Tigernut milk
Zobo concentrate
Tamarind drink concentrate
Ginger drink concentrate
Palm fruit concentrate
Palm oil (premium export grade)
Virgin coconut oil
Honey
Dried hibiscus flowers
*Trades & Products*
Aso-Oke weaving
Adire textile production
Ankara fashion accessories
Ra