At the YALI Dinner
& Awards, on 26th December, 2015, Alex Taiwo Babalola (Chief Marketing
Officer) explained that he and his friends hope young Nigerians will be
inspired by the app; he enthused: “Now that the impossible is made possible, it
means you can also do it, break the barriers and make things happen”. The Chief
Operating Officer of the company, Opeoluwa Aiyegbusi explained that he was
inspired to create the mobile solution when his neighbour was attacked and he
thought swapping airtime across networks could have helped in making a distress
call. He advised the youths thus: “You have to be courageous to challenge the
status quo. Always look for ways to turn negativity to positivity. That is what
Swap Naija has done in enabling phone users to swap across different networks,
say MTN to Glo; Glo to Etisalat; Etisalat to Airtel, and vice versa”.
At Olamide Live In
Concert, which was held at Eko Hotel & Suites on 27th December, 2015, a
team of beautiful brand reps of Swap Naija were there to engage Nigerian
youths. Also, the venue of the concert was branded with Swap Naija materials.
The same thing happened at Headies 2015,
where freebies were given out by Swap Naija team, and the Chief Operating
Officer of Swap Naija, Opeoluwa Aiyegbusi was interviewed on Headies Red Carpet
at the backstage. Also interviewed on the red carpet were other celebrities
like Small Doctor, Oritse Femi and MI, with the red carpet interviews being
beamed live on Hip TV.
Swap Naija in its space is a mobile app, which makes airtime
swap possible on the go in real-time. Before now, what was obtainable was a
transfer between subscribers from similar. Swap has been integrated with
different phone brands and telecom networks. The app can be downloaded at
Google Pay Store and Blackberry World (for BB10 and above) respectively. Work
is on-going to create versions for Microsoft and Apple phones. We hope to see
more innovations from this team in 2016.
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