Cyberspace Shopping Site, Egole Partners With 15 Offshore Firms

Nigeria’s premiere cyberspace shopping site, Egole, owned by Courteville Business Solutions Plc, says it has entered into partnership with 15 offshore firms to promote its business.

According to the  cyberspace shopping site, the 15 offshore firms comprise British, Caribbean and other foreign companies.

Speaking about the development, Courteville Group’s Managing Director and Group Managing Director (GMD) Learn Africa, Adebola Akindele, said:  “As at the last count, we had about 15 companies comprising British, Caribbean and other businesses that have signed contracts to come on Egole. We are going back to work out the logistics for these clients and Nigeria. With Egole, they will simultaneously be selling to people outside and within their home country.”

Akindele said a Caribbean food processing company has already signed to start shipping and selling their processed cakes and fruit juice products to Nigerians.

“We have also come here to discover a lot of interesting businesses that will  help us to service the people in diaspora more effectively.

“People are worried that they are buying from here, using their bank details; we have found three payments systems that can serve the customers. We have found here, companies based in London and working out of China and the Middle East, we want to use our platform to push their telecoms products into the Nigerian Market” Akindele said.

“We have also come here and met a lot of interesting businesses that will offer us the opportunity of being able to service the people in Diaspora more effectively,” he said.

To come on board Egole, prospective merchants are required to pay N50,000 (200 Pounds)

“If we can serve 177 million people in Nigeria, the Caribbean has five million people, the UK has less than the number of people that we have, Courteville has always been ready and you know challenges are our business, we take them on and sort out electronically, we are ready” he said.

Akindele further affirmed that it’s interesting that what should have ordinarily been a business Expo has attracted government influence; especially on the Caribbean side, so there has been a lot of government to business interaction and interest; also a lot of business to business interest, there are a lot of entrepreneurs’ both in the Diaspora and the Caribbean,” he said.

—Henry Ojelu