Konga, Nigeria’s leading composite e-commerce giant, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Youths and Sports Development, towards generating creative employment for millions of Nigerian youths.
The MoU was signed on Monday, September 13, 2021 in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Hon. Sunday Dare, at the ceremony lauded the company as a digital platform with immense capacity to help re-write Nigeria’s unemployment narrative.
The initiative was unveiled under Konga Jobs (KJ), a youth empowerment and job creation scheme of the Konga Group.
Specifically, the partnership will see Konga deploy its world-class assets, huge resources and cutting-edge technology backbone, while also placing its growing list of thriving subsidiaries across multiple verticals at the disposal of Nigerian youths who are desirous of an opportunity to earn a meaningful living and create wealth.
Konga says the scheme is targeted at the employed, unemployed and under-employed Nigerian youths.
Present during the signing ceremony, apart from the minister, were the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Youths and Sports, Mr. Nebeolisa Anako; Chairman, Konga Group, Leo Stan Ekeh; Co-CEO, Konga Group, Nick Imudia; VP, KongaPay, Isa Aliyushata, as well as other management staff of Konga and senior officials of the ministry.
Dare said: “We at the Ministry of Youths and Sports are of the view that public-private partnerships remain the way forward when it comes to the onerous task of creating opportunities for our youths.
“This belief has come to the fore with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and has also been reinforced by a recent World Bank report.
“We are delighted to have a technology-driven partner such as Konga partnering with us on this programme. Also, we are confident that through this MoU which we have signed today, we will be re-writing the narrative for millions of Nigerian youths who are the beneficiaries of this project.”
While lauding the ministry for its proactive zeal in closing the partnership, Mr. Ekeh noted that since its acquisition nearly three years ago, Konga, which pioneered the martketplace structure in Africa in addition to a long list of innovative strategies, has grown immensely beyond expectations of all e-commerce watchers, with the company becoming arguably Africa’s biggest Composite e-commerce platform and the first to hit profitability on the continent.
“Konga is driven by youths. This shows our youths have the capacity to deliver world-class corporates, even with all structural challenges confronting us in the country,” he said.
Ekeh encouraged Nigerian youths to alter their destinies, while also stressing that their passion in this century must pay their bills.
Also speaking at the event, Imudia, Co-CEO, Konga Group, affirmed that the partnership will afford Konga a chance to create millionaires across Nigeria within a short space of time.
“Konga today provides employment directly and indirectly through partnerships for over 250,000 Nigerians. Through this partnership, we are looking to not only offer more hardworking and ambitious Nigerian youths a chance to earn good money and create wealth.
“We are also keen to create millionaires who will become their own bosses and employ others. In addition to opportunities which abound in joining our fast growing database of Konga affiliates and merchants, many more deserving and outstanding youths will also get job opportunities across the multiple entities within the Konga Group.”
The event, which was held within the ministry’s conference room at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, also witnessed a tour of the massive facilities within the premises.