A Nigerian Fintech startup, Shago Payments Limited, has finally launched its bill payment and e-commerce platform, ‘Shago’, into the Nigerian financial sector to serve the banked, unbanked as well as the underserved in the country and internationally.
The Chief Executive Officer of the tech firm, Sabastine Enechi, during the launch which took place in Lagos recently, noted that Shago promotes e-commerce and online bill payment in an all-in-one solution.
He said, the firm would collaborate with more fintech companies and banks to help in driving financial inclusion services in the economy.
According to him, “Today’s event is to launch out into the market fully our app Shago and prove our concept in the market too, which has been in operation for one year now, and once it is proven and the end users give their feedbacks, we will look at them and improve on the areas noted.
“Everything is in place. We have a seamless application, as well as seamless integration with different banks and service providers. We are also in collaboration with other e-commerce merchants.”
On how Shago would roll out its unique online bill payment and electronic commerce programme, Enechi said the road map is in three segments-the bill payment, e-commerce and financial inclusion.
“So today, we have rolled out the bill payment, which is up and running to carry out the payment of different bills, including electricity, pay TV subscription, airtime vending among others.
“Subsequently, we will be launching the e-commerce fully, and on this platform, our vendors, merchants and our customers can expose their product to our consumers. So, anyone that has our app (Shago) would have access to these products on the platform,” he said.