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Paypal Nigeria. A request for Paypal service in Nigeria.

Oluniyi D. Ajao

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When would Paypal be available to residents of Nigeria?

Paypal is currently not available to residents of Nigeria though its available in most other African countries including countries like Togo and Niger.

When would Paypal be available to residents of Nigeria?
When would Paypal be available to residents of Nigeria?

Nigeria’s economy is the second largest in Africa (after South Africa) and the banking system is one of the best in Africa. Nigeria is the most populous nation in Africa and the 9th most populous, in the world.

I am sure Paypal is considering Nigeria but has not yet added Nigeria for whatever reason. My previous post speculated on Why Paypal features in Africa are limited.

Whatever their reasons are, I am using this blog post to agitate that full Paypal services be made available to residents of Nigeria so they can fully partake in global e-commerce.

Are you a Nigerian resident in Nigeria? Do you agree that Paypal services should be available to Nigeria? Share your thoughts here and now by posting your comment.

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Oluniyi D. Ajao
Oluniyi D. Ajao is an Internet Entrepreneur and Tech Enthusiast. Follow him on X (fka Twitter) @niyyie for more tech updates.

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  1. shane Avatar
    shane

    If nigeria had paypal they would just use ut as a way to scam money! paypal aren`t stupid.

    Reply
    1. Pastor Avatar
      Pastor

      Shane, sorry, u need help, u ds racst

      Reply
  2. Arinze Chiedu from nigeria Avatar
    Arinze Chiedu from nigeria

    I went into internet one certain day to search for a part time job(online job) that will help me out of school; unfortunately, i saw one nice job in which they pay through paypal, but it was only problem i have. Pls those with power, help to see he it can be introduce in nigeria. For it can help some nigerians to succeed in life. Thanks.

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  3. EKENE J. NWABUDE Avatar
    EKENE J. NWABUDE

    well guys i did not take my time to go through all your contributions on this matter. so if i say what some one else have said before it should be seen as an addition cry for HELP as this PAYPAL wahala (restriction) has cause so much harm than good to this Good people of Nigeria. And my point is this…”TECHNOLOGY HAS GONE FAR SO WE ALL KNOW, AND FOR THIS REASON, PAYPAL SHOULD AT LEAST PROVE TO US THAT THEY TOO CAN UTILIZE TECHNOLOGY IN IT FULLEST…SO ENLIST NIGERIA IN YOUR LIST AND TRY MONITORING ANY TRANSACTION FROM NIGERIA SERIOUSLY WITH ANY ADVANCE STRATEGIES OUT THERE. IT CAN EVEN BE SETTING UP A THIRD PARTY PAYMENT INTERMEDIARY LIKE ALERT PAY, ETC, FOR ONCE PROVE TO US THAT YOU(PAYPAL) OWN THIS TECHNOLOGY OF A THING. AVOIDING NIGERIA IS NOT THE BEST OPTION IN DEAL WITH HIGH RISK THREAT SO YOU TAG NIGERIANS”.ONE MORE THING IT HURT ME TO SAY THIS, I THINK THERE IS NO REASONABLE INDIGENOUS GRADUATE OF ECONOMICS IN UNITED KINGDOM. IF THERE IS ONE PROVE IT. AVOIDING RISK IS NOT THE ONLY OPTIONS FOR DEALING WITH RISK.

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  4. Oluchi Avatar
    Oluchi

    I requested a visa card for my dad because it’s very expensive to transfer money to them and I thought we have paypal down there in Nigeria so I can be using it and trying to open a paypal account for him, I discovered its no paypal network in Nigeria. Please Paypal we need you in Nigeria please. Regards.

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  5. misbah Avatar
    misbah

    please i want you to forget about 419.paypal has more secure than other means
    our traders want involve
    our student want share
    our parent want collect
    while we have what ever to accept the process

    why naija

    Reply
  6. solomon Avatar
    solomon

    Why should paypal discriminate, they are meant to help foster unity among countries but rather they promote disunity. As we all know most online business makes use of paypal as a way of payment most especially online surveys. I as a person participate in this surveys but have become limited cos i dont have a paypal account.

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  7. Dean Oz. Avatar
    Dean Oz.

    Whatever reason(s) Paypal has in not extending services to Nigeria is a global display of economic dwarfism of her stratergic planning directors, if any….an understatement. I’m a Nigerian living in one of the fastest-growing-economies-of-the-world-countries, where our handsets are being snatched away from us by the locals in broad day light, yet Paypal is here.I think, someone like Mike Adenuga of Globacom and a host of others, should come up with something better than Paypal, since Nigerians have smarter and sharper e-commerce brains than most security measures/outfits of the world as confirmed by Paypal fears(woes) or better still, let Paypal employ Nigerians to design the Nigerian-special-package for them since they lack the know-how, in this world that’s a global village…let me stop here!

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    1. Oluniyi David Ajao Avatar
      Oluniyi David Ajao

      I gbadun you! 🙂

      Reply
  8. Domnan Zwandor Avatar
    Domnan Zwandor

    Like most of you I feel insulted by the refusal of Paypal to include Nigeria but I’m grateful because I feel it has curbed our expenses in way and I also think has saved a lot of naive Nigerians from online scams. Nigerians may commit a large number of email scams but a lot scam site sites I see aren’t Nigerian so in my opinion, it’s stupid for e-bay to blacklist (yes I call it that) Nigeria. I’m in no way condoning the actions of scammers. Wrong is wrong.
    Paypal hurt you? Find an alternative.
    Can’t? Live with it (you’re Nigerian small things like this won’t kill you)
    Inferring from a previous comment; this may be your opportunity to start you own payment scheme and make it big. After all to think about it, how did interswitch & co start.
    The common saying “every disappointment is a blessing in disguise” for me holds true.
    Cutting off before I get inspirational 😉
    God bless Naija.

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  9. Michael Masanga Avatar
    Michael Masanga

    I sure am not Nigerian or in Nigeria. However i am a son of Africa and i agree paypal has not been fair to Africa as a whole. In a few countries where Paypal is present, they are only allowed to buy using it not to withdraw money, In south Africa (the only African country to receive paypal) there are lots of rules and regulations attached to the paypal account. The best bet is to either use moneybookers which is international in the true sense or to start an African only payment processing system. Paypal sucks

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  10. precious Avatar
    precious

    PayBox is still in development and it’s a “closed box” system for
    now. In order to “Open the Box”, we need a bigger user base. That means more users. If you
    can see the seeds of a great new service in PayBox, if you’re
    excited by what you see, please spread the word..fallow the lhe link and register now..paybox.me/r/akpakwere..Thank you.

    Reply
  11. wasiu Avatar
    wasiu

    please, i highly appeal to paypal to include nigeria in its list.
    thanks

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  12. DanteOz Avatar
    DanteOz

    This idea of paypal isn’t really fair, they should include nigeria and most other countries in africa, so we can make online transactions easily, like cashing adsense earnings.

    Reply
  13. Morin Avatar
    Morin

    I actually came to this site cos i was looking for a way to pay for a $10 item on ebay. I noticed that the first post on this site was in 2007 and this is may 2011 and no changes…Alternatives anyone???

    Reply
  14. kaycslim Avatar
    kaycslim

    paypal is really no fair to Nigerians…just hope we dont find a back door…lol
    but we seriously need em..

    Reply
  15. Saka musa Avatar
    Saka musa

    These paypal are even full of themselves for Nigeria not be included in their service. I think they don’t want to take their chances with Nigeria, they are still naive i think.

    Reply
  16. Gloria Avatar
    Gloria

    Well, i live in Nigeria and i somehow got a verified Paypal account. There is some lady who provides verified paypal account to non-listed countries. My friends too requested an account, we have been sending and receving money worldwide without any problems.

    Best of luck and keep up the good work!!

    Reply
  17. ERIC Avatar
    ERIC

    Dear friends,

    It is very unfortunate that even the whites have a way of practising what is called segregation and this Paypal issue is one of them. How on earth should Nigeria not be listed in the list of countries that paypal do business with? Does it mean Togo, Niger and rest small countries that we support in many things are now better than us in reputation or what? It is painful we we withness things that are really stupid being done by the elites themselves. What does it take for Nigeria to be listed in there? We have all that it takes even better than most countries of the world not to talk of African countries.

    Finally, I want to state that Nigeria is the commercial king of African and as such a great giant. The only problem that we have is excessive dependence on crude oil products which has made it near imposibility to venture into the mighty Production Sector in which we are even more bellsed than most countries because we have real manpower and the many educated ones are on the streets doing one nonsense job or the other. This is where the Government of the day must come in immediately. The Nation mUst be known for PRODUCTION and not CONSUMPTION.

    Then, the World should know that Nigerian is never and shall never be in the list of never do wells again!

    Eric Ekwealuba.

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  18. Bayo Banjoko Avatar
    Bayo Banjoko

    You guys are in your own world.
    Nigerian’s and send ebay items to Nigeria almost ran this company bankrupt. Their main scam protection was introduced for Nigerians especially.
    They have paid out millions to Insurance claims and goods not received.
    Our postcoding and address system is flawed, our security system is out dated, our credit system does not exist.
    The first rule of an online retailer these days is “Whatever you do, do not venture into Nigeria”.

    I rest my case.

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  20. Sade Lana Avatar
    Sade Lana

    I’m surprised that we are in year 2011, and yet PayPal is not in Nigeria, whatever their reasons for their absence in Nigeria may be all they need is a good technic to differentiate people who genuinely want to do business from fraudsters.

    Reply
  21. Oluyemi Akinbo Avatar
    Oluyemi Akinbo

    The problem with most western nation is that they like to think they are better than Africans and especially Nigerian in-terms of character. The fraud that brought the global economy to its greatest recession was perpetrated by their celebrated business guru. There is no form of fraud in Africa that does not have a bigger and worst dimension in the wester world by their citizens. I think they are just afraid of their shadows. Please note that before the infiltration of western culture, films and values into our living system especially in Nigeria, up till the late 60s people put their goods by the roadside here buyers will pick them up and put money there. Do they ever have such a culture in the western world? I rest my case

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  22. Sade Lana Avatar
    Sade Lana

    I agree with Niyi to the extent that before, during and many years after the advent of colonial rule our ancestors used to openly display their wares but the fact is that it was not the colonial rule itself that destroyed our societal but the senseless long year mis-rule of our leaders and their greediness which in turn turn Nigeria economy to shred and lead to huge unemployment- in short it is bad policy and bad implementation of the few good policy that destroyed the envious value system of our people.

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  23. jojo Avatar
    jojo

    we will still be shopping,thats why most of us hack the system!

    Reply
  24. Jude Avatar
    Jude

    But there should be a way to sign up with another country, since Paypal says country or region.

    Reply
    1. Oluniyi David Ajao Avatar
      Oluniyi David Ajao

      … at your own risk.

      Reply
  25. Olubunmi Avatar
    Olubunmi

    I WANT THE PAYPAL AND EVEN THE WHOLE WORLD TO KNOW THAT IT IS NOT EVERYONE DOING BUSINESS AS NIGERIAN IS FRAUDULENT IN THEIR DEALINGS. SO I URGE THE PAYPAL COMPANY TO QUICKLY CONSIDERED THE INCLUSION OF NIGERIA FOR SMOOTH e global market in NIGERIA.

    Reply
  26. Olusade Lanab Avatar
    Olusade Lanab

    Well there are many Alternative to paypal.I uses alertpay or my credit card

    Reply
  27. Musbahu Sarki Avatar
    Musbahu Sarki

    Dear paypal, I don’t know whether you’ll come across this plea. Kindly consider my God’s own country, Nigeria We certainly desire and need paypal account.

    Reply
  28. Sade Lana Avatar
    Sade Lana

    I presently uses Alertpay for my online transactions.

    I simply get use to turning my back on any site that i want to do business with that uses only Paypal as its means of online payment.

    You find many sites having more than one payment processors online, those are the sites i do business with.

    Actually i think i’m not loosing anything not using Paypal as my online payment processor.

    I believe it’s Paypal that is loosing market here, why should i be the one begging them to do business with me.

    They should be the one doing everything to attract my attention to them and i believe that Nigerians should get use to the fact that Paypal does not do business with Nigeria and should realize that there are other online payment processors who are doing business with Nigerians.

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  29. eBay Nigeria Avatar
    eBay Nigeria

    It is pretty much clear that the days of Nigerian Scam is over, virtually all the cyber cafes have folded up, Nigerians are now aware of the limitless and Legit opportunities on the internet and they no longer have that time to start looking for who to scam on the internet. Paypal need to start researching Nigeria because in the Next 10years from now, Google Checkout will be just an inch below paypal and if they are not careful Google checkout might catch up with them.

    Google checkout allows Nigeria and virtually every other Countries of the world. PAYPAL you guys have got to wake up, more so eBay should start planning to invest in Nigeria. Kasuma and Sabunta might start chasing you guys very soon.

    Nigerians are proud spenders and love to shop online. I have study and research the Nigerian market when it comes to spending online. Nigerians are amongst the 1st 10 Credit card users online according to mastercard report.

    So if una like make una come, na una go loose at the end of the day

    http://nigerianbay.com

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  30. African Avatar
    African

    Nigerians want but don’t want to change. The government well aware of the misdeeds of Nigerians and internet scams does nothing to try to police those in cafes committing such. The technology is there, but the government would rather swindle the money into their own pockets. As international companies began to identify IP addresses from Nigeria and limiting access, Nigerian scammers moved their criminal activities next door to Ghana. Basically, giving Ghana an up and coming nation with less “drama” than many other African nations a bad reputation.

    I want to send money back to African, but I don’t blame these companies for not wanting to increase their risk profiles in dealing with nations who will not work to help police its own people, espeically over the internet. Companies put protection measures in place so consumers feel comfortable making online purchase by guaranteeing refunds for fraudulent transactions. These companies would go bankrupt if they had to reimburse all the funds lost annually, especially to Nigerian scam artists.

    I’m sure paypal is monitoring the situation, if Google wants to take the first step, Paypal can easily follow and leap frog with their huge subscriber base. As a businessman and African, I don’t blame them…I blame us (i.e. Poor Government)

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    1. Oluniyi David Ajao Avatar
      Oluniyi David Ajao

      Google Checkout has always been available to Nigeria.

      Reply
  31. Nwabunwanne Unamma Avatar
    Nwabunwanne Unamma

    Woah…I mean,is our reputation that bad???lol.I am scared o!I read all the comments today about paypal and couldn’t believe my eyes.but if you guys are making so much noise about paypal alone,what about clickbank and 2checkout,huh?May God help us.

    Reply
  32. odimegwu david Avatar
    odimegwu david

    Paypal needs to be in Nigeria. Haba! Most sites are not yet accepting google checkout else, I’ll stop wallahing myself over paypal.
    thanks

    Reply
  33. Kingsley Enegide Avatar
    Kingsley Enegide

    Pay-pal should consider adding us to their white-list. As an internet marketer, i used to have problems collecting payments from my customers but till PayPal does what we want, i am using 2Checkout in their place!

    2CO is legit and trusted but no as much as PayPal and allows customers to pay me via PayPal and credit cards. It is best after PayPal. I have got it integrated on my site http://www.digihint.com. With 2CO, you can get your money paid to you in their Payoneer MasterCard. I can even use my verified fastecash or payza accont for salespage buttons.

    I could open a verify a PayPal account in Nigeria but the risk is just too big to take. Considering the fact that you account can get suspended and you lost all your funds.

    For those of you that are wish to buy online using sites that accept only PayPal, you can consider Pay4Me Services.

    All in all, we can succeed even without PayPal. Don’t sit down and keep blaming PayPal everyday. Life’s too short and time passes just like bullet! You can! “Padi do something… Kpamuregae!” :). Have a nice day my people.

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  34. Sam Adeyinka Avatar
    Sam Adeyinka

    I think Paypal should pls include Nigeria on the list. there a lot of business i run online as a blogger which warrants me to have a paypal account in other that i earn money but because of me not having an account, i am literally unable. Its just unfair. Paypal should pls wade into it ASAP. Thanks Mr. Niyi, i will just add you on twitter and pls guys you can follow me on twitter @samuelkermis or read my blog on http://www.samuelkermis.wordpress.com. I love here………………..x

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  35. Osasu Avatar
    Osasu

    Am I leaving this comment too late? I really don’t know if paypal has finally done the right thing. Please if you have an update info, send to @OsasuEgbe1. I would be glad to hear from you. Thanks

    Reply
  36. Emmanuel Ebem Avatar
    Emmanuel Ebem

    These paypal guys are really annoying. I don’t know why Nigerians are not eligible to open paypal accouunts, its so frustrating. I have many online accounts but I cant just withdraw my funds coz of Paypal. Those guys should really expand their network to Nigeria and other African countries

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  38. Stry_kai Avatar
    Stry_kai

    Nigeria is now on PayPal, you need to update this. https://www.paypal.com/ng/

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  39. Ploy Avatar
    Ploy

    Because many country got scam to send money to nigeria by using a fake paypal website

    Reply
  40. Class hall Avatar
    Class hall

    I believe soon Paypal will raise the restrictions on Nigerian accounts on the payment platform because of the teeming population of techpreneurs in Nigeria. Back then when I started Internet business, there was no way you could use Paypal in Nigeria; not even to make payments. But today you can make payments by linking your debit card to your Paypal account. This is how it usually begins, just to test the waters.

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