Nigeria’s number one online retail giant, Jumia.com.ng, has credited the exponential growth of technology as one of the footholds on which it’s expanding and inventive shopping services rests.
Regarded as Nigeria’s biggest online retailer with the widest stock of products, Jumia also places high premium on quality manpower development.
Co-founders of Jumia.com, Raphael Afaedor and Tunde Kehinde, said that “irrespective of the challenges of doing business in Nigeria, the most important reason for their success has been our people, who have driven targets beyond expectations through their various expertise and to who we are most grateful.”
From a standpoint, there have been many entrepreneurs and techno-preneurs who engage in different ventures not only to cash in or to expand their business, but also to give comfort to people, they said Taking a tip from this model, Jumia seeks to continue to lead the online retail sector by empowering best hands and skilled personnel to function at their innovative peak.
Through this they have created an environment where the transfer of knowledge is fostered between highly skilled and competent workers who have passed through various notable local and foreign institutions.
“Being an organisation driven by results and one that understands the value of its manpower in driving organisational objectives, we have put in place processes to continually empower and protect our employees, which in the long term will be more beneficial to us as an organisation, our employees and the nation’s economy at large. We want our employees to understand the competitive market we operate in as a way of empowering them as individuals for any work environment,”the duo stated.