Delta State-born businessman, Fejiro Hanu Agbodje is only 24 years old, a very ordinary Nigerian youth doing extraordinary things in e-Commerce business in Nigeria.
The mathematics and statistics graduate of University of Port Harcourt sits atop a multi-billion naira business company known as Patricia but registered with Corporate Affairs Commission (C.A.C) as Patricia Technologies Limited, an e-Commerce company that processed over N10 billion in transaction volume in 2019 alone after having been in the business in just two years.
He traced his journey in a brief interview recently.
“I had an uncle who visited Nigeria, who used to give me an iTunes gift card. I didn’t own an iPhone, so I literally had no use for it, so I tried to find where I could exchange this for real money. I couldn’t find any local company doing that and I ended up getting scammed of the card. At that point, I realized I had stumbled on something. I figured if I had this problem, other persons would most likely have the same problem and that was the birthplace for Patricia,” he said.
“ I have been an entrepreneur since I was 8, it came naturally to me. I am probably one of the most optimistic people you’ll ever meet. I am a graduate of the University of Port Harcourt, where I studied Mathematics and Statistics, it was quite interesting because I never really wanted to study mathematics. But looking back, knowing what I know now, I am grateful I did. Somewhere, I always knew that the dot would connect,” he noted
Continuing, he added “I have started a lot of other businesses before Patricia. I once had a mini restaurant when I was in the university. I sold airtime, I sold popcorn and I got admission through a programme called BASIC, kind of like A-Levels today, then I used my house rent to buy a bike and gave it to an indigene who ran away with it. I have done a lot of things to be honest.
Coming Back to Patricia, I started it sometime in 2017, it actually was supposed to be a side hustle, to earn an extra 30,000 a month but as fate would have it, it blew up. I think all my failures and trials have been preparing me for this.”
Speaking on the feats of his company and the formula he and his team have deployed to stay on top of their game, he said it is about trust and prompt service.
“We ensure our customers get credited in less than 10 minutes, which has allowed us to boast of over a thousand daily transactions. We are here to usher Africa into digital age. We are the first to let clients withdraw bitcoin from ATM and the Crypto and Giftcard market came alive because of us. By April 2020 we want Nigeria to shop online with bitcoins. Issues of trust have always been the challenge to the Nigerian eCommerce sector and we have taken care of that by being the reliable company our customers desire,” Agbodje added.
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