MobileMoneyAfrica to Train 60,000 Mobile Payment Agents in Nigeria

MobileMoneyAfrica, Africa’s leading resource for mobile financial inclusion media and research provider has commenced a programme to train at least 60,000 mobile payment agents in Nigeria.
According Okoegwale Emmanuel, CEO, the firm has decided to go to town, cities and rural areas to train potential agents for the providers.
The success of Mpesa which is the world most successful mobile money systems is largely based on the availability and spread of the agents which are about 12,000 in Kenya serving only 9,000,000 customers.
Nigeria is estimated to need at least 60,000 agents to cover all the states and 774 local governments.
The first training which will take place at the University of Lagos (Unilag) on May 25 will cover major segments of Mobile financial services and agency management services. Focus areas will be, understanding mobile payments; types of technologies, applications, handset management; how it works; agent recruitment; agent point branding; managing operations at agent locations – efloat and till management; security and fraud management; operational risk for agents and basic accounting for agents.
The training will also showcase technologies and applications from players in the industry in Nigeria and attendees will also get listed in agent database for providers in Nigeria.
Leading contenders in the MMT space in Nigeria will also be on hand to demonstrate their technology and sign up agents at the events. Some of the expected players are MMIT, M-Naira, My -Pesa, Ingress Quality Rollout, Eartholeum Networks, MoneyBoxAfrica and Tagattitude Nigeria.
Registration is already open and delegates seats booking can be made with the organisers or at Nigeria CommunicationsWeek.
Contact Emmanuel Okoegwale, Principal Consultant, Mobilemoneyafrica.com 234 (0) 803 0818 868 or ken Nwogbo, editor, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek, 234 (0) 803 400 5018