eCommerce

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Konga signs NIPOST for pickup centre expansion

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Facebook reveals buy & sell features for Groups

15 million Nigerians use Facebook

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Gloo.ng is launching in Abuja this April

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Buy now, pay later courtesy of Jumia and First Bank

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ACE.ng: The mafia disrupting the African logistics market

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Jumia’s Year 2014 in review







Konga.com is set to deliver through NIPOST (Nigerian Postal Service) across the Country, according to our source; Konga has been working behind the scene on the agreement with NIPOST as a point to deliver to their customers all over Nigeria. Konga is leveraging NIPOST’s reach of about 5000 locations in every part of the country for their…

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Facebook reveals buy & sell features for Groups

Facebook has implemented improved new ways for people to buy and sell things on the platform – aimed at selling goods. As an alternative to services like eBay, Facebook users sometimes turn to Facebook Groups to make purchases. Previously, however, this was mostly done informally. According to the social media platform: “For Sale Group members can…

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Gloo.ng is launching in Abuja this April

Gloo.ng, founded by Olumide Olusanya, a former Medical Doctor back in October 2012, along with his wife, is a Lagos-based online supermarket. Well, not for long, they are moving to Abuja come April. Gloo.ng’s value proposition is to provide customers with a very convenient, efficient and affordable means of shopping for their living essentials, saving…

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Buy now, pay later courtesy of Jumia and First Bank

Jumia Nigeria and First Bank Limited have partnered up for the FirstBank Naira Credit Card which will allow people purchase products and make payments in installments, over time. You don’t have to go to FirstBank to avail yourself of this service, Thank God!, but you can apply directly on the Jumia website while you place your…

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ACE.ng: The mafia disrupting the African logistics market

The need for reliable logistics for eCommerce in Africa has become inevitable especially with the growth of online retailing and demand in Africa. There are no other equipped entrepreneurs to take the market than the founding fathers of eCommerce in Nigeria, the co-founder and former Managing Director of Jumia, Tunde Kehinde and former Chief Operating…

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So, Jumia released a ‘How JUMIA Redefined e-commerce in 2014; empowering Nigeria and Nigerians’ press-release, complete with infographics a few days back. I read it yesterday, delayed because I felt it would be one of those self-congratulatory posts that have become all too popular in the tech ecosystem; I wasn’t wrong, but after a repeat…

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