By Peter OBIORA InvestAdvocate
London (INVESTADVOCATE)- Learn Africa Plc, quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and 15 offshore Firms mostly from the Caribbean is set to partner Courteville Business Solutions Plc on Egole the Company’s cyberspace shopping site.
Adebola Akindele, the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Company Thursday said Learn Africa and 15 offshore Firms comprising of British, Caribbean and other foreign Companies have indicated interest to come on board Egole.
”As at last count, we had about 15 Companies comprising British, Caribbean and other businesses that has 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,” he affirmed.
Akindele said apart from LearnAfrica indicating its interest to sign on Egole, a Caribbean Food Processing Company have already signed to start shipping and selling their processed cakes and fruit juice items to Nigerians.
”We have also come here to discover a lot of interesting businesses that will also offer us the opportunity of being able 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 product into the Nigerian Market,” Akindele said.
He affirmed that any Company that wants to take advantage of the Egole platform of Courteville, these include, Media, Telecom, Food, Fashion, IT Services and Fashion Companies should do so.
”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. People are worried that they are buying from here, using their bank details,” he said
Akindele said Courteville has discovered three payments system that can serve the people. ”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 product into the Nigerian Market”.
To come on board Egole, prospective Merchants are required to pay N50,000 (200 Pounds)
”If we can serve 177 million in Nigeria, the Caribbean has 5 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 diaspora and the Caribbean,” he said.
The Courteville’s GMD said Egole launched last month, has attracted so much attention locally and its growing, ”we came here, thinking that we only wanted to showcase at the Expo, but there have been a lot of activities on Egole, people from Nigeria that are here, have been able to buy their phone top ups for their local Nigerian networks,” he said.
