As Africa’s e-commerce space hots up, JP Morgan also joins the chef to cook the food for the internet party currently going on across Africa. Jumia.com.ng, originally launched as kasuwa.com.ng came into the Nigerian market in June: founded by two young, savvy Africans (Rafael Afaedor and Tunde Kehinde) and funded by Germany based Rocket Internet. [...]
After we got a scoop from VTN about their new m-payment platform, we were given the application to test. We asked some questions which we thought might be on minds of most consumer’s The CEO Peter Ojo, responded to our questions; Q-What structure do you currently have on ground to effectively reach mainstream in the [...]
Ask any regular John on the street why they don’t buy things online and I bet you the odds are that 7 out of 8 (who know you can do that online) will tell you they don’t trust ‘the site’ that’s why they don’t buy online. Anyone who understands how the Insterswitch Webpay system works [...]
A research into the lifestyle of connected Nigerians which was started last year May, and conducted by ‘Gbenga Sesan has now been made public. The research seek to understand the pattern, growth and how Nigerian use the internet. The Findings The survey revealed that internet usage is most popular among young people aged 20 to [...]
Looking at the Nigerian internet market, we see an emerging platform for growth and business development. Still, 10 million users is not too small for business to thrive but the result we see everywhere is less than 1% of Nigerian Websites offer online payment. That is to say 1 out every hundred Nigerian websites have [...]
