Globacom on Monday said that hundreds of Nigerians had stormed the Benin City venue of the first training for Nigeria’s maiden Mobile Money Super Agent Network, to be registered as agents.
The company said they were from across the 18 council areas of Edo State, less than two weeks after the launch of Glo Xchange.
Globacom’s Mobile Money Specialist, Alex Munia, said that Glo Xchange was launched to make the agents and their customers “carry the bank in their pockets while they go about doing their daily business.”
He said, “This is a win-win platform for the agents, their customers and the beneficiaries of the money transferred through the m-wallet (mobile wallet).
“Glo Xchange will afford them the chance to key into a platform where many, especially in East Africa, have made a lot of money without borrowing from the banks to do business.”
Munia explained that in addition to the commission that would accrue from the m-wallet transactions, the agents would have a lot of human traffic coming into their business premises to do the mobile money transfer and “get to know about other services the agents are rendering and patronise them accordingly.”
In his opening remarks at the training, the Executive Assistant to the Group Chief Operating Officer of Globacom, Mr. Charles Odiase, said that Glo Xchange “is a robust initiative that will significantly enhance financial inclusion, get the unbanked into the formal banking system and completely change the way we live.”
One of the participants at the training, Odion Inegbinebor, said, “after listening to the presentations here today and the fact that one does not have to borrow from the bank to start this business, I am willing to be an agent and make legitimate money for myself.”
The Managing Director of Dadev Ventures, Maria Oisamoje, said that she could testify that it was profitable to do business with Globacom.
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