Major telecoms service provider, Globacom,
has rounded off Town Hall trainings for prospective Glo Xchange agents with
sessions in Sokoto, Katsina, Ekiti and Ebonyi States, bringing the total number
of agents recruited nationwide to over two thousand five hundred.
The last batch of training sessions
held over the weekend were attended by enthusiastic prospective agents who
thronged the various sessions for capacity building lectures on how to function
as Glo Xchange mobile money agents as well as mode of operation and how the
agents can start the business in their locality.
A cross section of participants
commended the Glo Xchange network designed to bring mobile money services to
the end users, especially unbanked Nigerians, describing it as a veritable
platform to tackle unemployment.
Olaigbe Temitope of M5 Direct Limited who
spoke from the Ado-Ekiti centre of the town hall meetings said that the project
was good for Nigeria's cashless policy as it would make business transaction
much easier while Ogunsakin Ganiyu of Lemissco Communications, Iyin road,
Basiri, Ado-Ekiti opined that the Glo Xchange scheme would simplify money
transfer.
From Sokoto, Alhaji Abdul Malik of Sokoto
South Local Government said, “with Glo Xchange the issue of filling bank
tellers and several kilometres’ trip to banks from our various villages will
become a thing of the past”.
Mallam Yusuf Maidama of Tangaza Local
Government Area, Sokoto enthused, “My old parents in the village will no longer
be worried about how to get money from banks which are located several
kilometres away. I also will not have to join long queues to send money to my
suppliers to buy my wares”.
At the Grace Court Hotel, Abakaliki,
Ebonyi State, Akwa Okorie from Ishiagu said Glo Xchange “… will help make
monetary transaction easier, especially in rural areas while Aja Godspower from
Afikpo concurred that it will ease the problems associated with unavailability
of financial institutions in the rural areas”.
Ezeugo Jennifer from Nkaleke in Abakaliki
called it the most “thoughtful financial and business platform innovation of
2014. This will not only simplify financial transactions but will also go a
long way to make business transactions much easier,” she enthused.
The Glo Xchange mobile money
platform is a collaboration with four licenced mobile money operators including
Ecobank, Zenith, Stanbic IBTC and FirstMonie which has the unique advantage of
servicing the about 140 million unbanked Nigerians who may however be
part of the 129million telephone subscribers in the country.
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