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For those who don’t know, Nnamdi Ekeh is the head honcho of Nigeria’s foremost e-commerce brand Konga, who has always showed his magic wand in business. As a 26 years old man, young Ekeh has proven to be shoulder high above his peers.
Since he became the CEO of the leading online business, that metamorphosed from Yudula to Konga, he has made tremendous strides that has helped positioned the company as a clear leader in Nigeria’s highly competitive e-commerce market.
Ekeh is an Economics graduate from the University of Lancaster, certificate in International Business and Economics from Harvard.
Society Rendezvous gathered that apart from his wizardry in business, young shrewd businessman, is also endowed with oratory prowress.
Weeks ago, he dazzled his audience in a chat with Cable News Network (CNN) Marketplace Africa on the sidelines of the first Creative Africa Exchange, held between January 16 and 18, 2020 in Kigali, Rwanda.
As one of the speakers at the event that converged over 1,500 participants from 68 countries with over 250 exhibitors, The alumnus of Lagos Business School displayed that he is indeed fast stepping into his father’s shoes.
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In a discussion with CNN’s Eleni Giokos, the son of Zinox Computers Boss Leo Stam Ekeh noted that; Konga relied on its deep understanding of the Nigerian terrain – a factor which he emphasised had distinguished Konga in the marketplace.
“The starting point for us was identifying the problem. There is a huge problem in Nigeria ,where the informal market is so huge, so massive; in fact, almost 98% of the market.
This means that people don’t have access to quality products; they don’t have access to quality after-sales services,” he said.
Ekeh further disclosed that Konga has dominated Nigeria, and currently expanding its tentacles to other African countries.
He said: “ Nigeria is one of the largest markets in Africa. We are looking at consolidating in Nigeria and ensuring our customers get the best services and then rolling out across Africa.
If you are able to scale to the point where you can solve a lot of the problems in Nigeria, it makes it easy to take on other markets outside Nigeria.
Definitely, Nigeria is the focus for now. That’s where we started and that’s where we hope to scale and once that is done, we can begin to expand to other African markets.’’
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