4th May, 2016
Funsho Arogundade
OLX.com.ng, the leading online classifieds site, has won the award for Classified Advert Website of the year at the recently held seventh edition of Beacon of Information & Communications Technology Awards (BoICT) in Lagos.
OLX bagged the honour at a ceremony attended by major players in the e-commerce industry across various sectors of the economy, who gathered to celebrate outstanding achievement in various categories of the award.
While receiving the award on behalf of the company, Lola Masha, Country Manager, OLX, thanked the organizers of the awards for their recognition.
Masha stated that she was humbled by the award which was a testimony of OLX’s commitment to helping Nigerians win by selling their used goods to earn extra cash especially in this challenging economy.
“We are truly honored to have emerged winners in this category. I want to specially thank our OLX users for their loyalty. I will like to dedicate this award to them and to the OLX team for their commitment,” she said
The Beacon of ICT Awards are annual ICT awards recognising organisations’ or individuals’ contributions to ICT development in Nigeria.
The theme for this year’s award ceremony was “Data Centre as Kiln of Industrialisation and Transformation”.
OLX is the world’s leading classifieds platform in growth markets and is available in more than 45 countries and over 50 languages.
It connects local people to buy, sell or exchange used goods and services by making it fast and easy for anyone to post an ad through the mobile app.