Stand the Chance to Win 101 Gifts of Love & A Diamond Ring with the Jumia Valentine’s Day Offer

Jumia, “Nigeria’s No.1 shopping destination” with over 100,000 items on the website has recently launched a love themed store with 101 gifts in anticipation for the Valentine season.

Valentine’s day is one of the most celebrated days of the year as it focuses around love and showering your family and friends with the perfect gift. Jumia Nigeria’s Valentine theme this year is 101 Amazing Gifts of Love and A Diamond Ring for the love of your life this Valentine.

JUMIA is the first African company to win the World Retail Award

JUMIA, Nigeria’s #1 shopping destination, won “The Best Retail Launch of the Year” at the World Retail Congress in Paris on Wednesday. Through this distinction, JUMIA is the first African company to have won the most important retail award worldwide. They did this ahead of all other offline, online and developed market retailers of the world, other nominees in this category were Hedonism Wines, Presso, Quemdisse, Berenice?, t.riciclo and Zalora. 

Jumia celebrates Nigeria at ‘53’ with amazing offers

At Nigeria’s number 1 shopping destination your shopping experience just gets all the more amazing. Jumia.com.ngis the first retailer in West Africa to retail the just released Samsung Galaxy Note 3, and what’s amazing is its new service ‘Jumia Express’that will ensure purchases of this state of the art phone get to its customers3 hours and 33 minutes upon confirmation of purchases. The Samsung Note 3, the third version of the deviceis a cross between a phone and a tablet – a so-called "phablet”, and comes with a 5.7-inch screen, a 13-megapixel camera and will run on 4G.One of the main innovations is the Air Command function which gives users easy access to the Note 3's main features when using the S Pen. Continue...

iROKOtv Selling Top Nollywood DVDs on Jumia

iROKOtv this week announced that it is moving into Nigeria’s DVD market, launching its new arm of the business with 17 Nollywood top titles in HD-quality. Celebrated around the world for bringing Nollywood onto the internet via www.irokotv.com, the move comes as the company seeks to fill the gap in the current market for legally produced, well packaged and top quality DVDs for those who do not have access to the Internet or who prefer to watch their favourite movies on disc. 

BATTABOX VIDEO: BattaBox shops ONLINE in Nigeria for the first time

Online shopping in Nigeria has become big business! And BattaBox decided to try it out for ourselves...

"You can shop for anything from books to fashion, accessories, mobile devices - whatever you want to buy," explains the Director of Public Relations at Konga.com
There are numerous online shopping destinations in Nigeria that have started in the last few years - in particular, Konga.com and Jumia.com - who are competing against each other to be the main online destination for Nigerians to do their shopping.

Our presenter Adeola tests the website ordering infrastructure by searching for and ordering a dress she has wanted for ages (not a Nyash pad!) and despite the usual challenges of electricity and traffic - the dress is successfully delivered.
Konga and Jumia both promise to deliver to anywhere in Nigeria - and you can even pay on delivery.

"You can decide if you want have the package delivered to your doorstep or to pick up from one of our drop-off points across the country," says Konga.

Online shopping in Nigeria is already incredibly successful - with millions of dollars of foreign investment pouring in and the two online giants battling it out for internet predominance.
The Konga warehouse, based in Lagos, has shelves stacked full of goods that are gift wrapped and then delivered by bike so you don't have to worry about getting stuck in traffic - if you are in Lagos.

"When I get home I'm going to wear that dress I've always wanted," says Adeola with a smile.