M-KOPA Expands to Nigeria, Appoints Babajide Duroshola as New Country General Manager
Connected Asset Financing Platform Commercially Launching After 20,000 Device Pilot
12th July 2021. Lagos, Nigeria. M-KOPA, the leading connected asset financing platform, today announces it has officially expanded to Nigeria. To lead the Nigeria team, M-KOPA has named Babajide Duroshola as the new General Manager. A part of the tech company’s broader expansion strategy, the move into the Nigerian market signals M-KOPA’s focus on offering millions of underbanked customers across Sub-Saharan Africa access to life-enhancing products and services such as smartphones, solar lighting, energy-efficient televisions, fridges and digital financial services via its financing platform.
The company recorded pilot sales of over 20,000 devices in Lagos, and is rapidly expanding into states across the c...