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.
A group of young Nigerians – Opeoluwa
Aiyegbusi, Lawrence Akinwale and Alex Taiwo
Babalola – has unveiled a mobile app called Swap
Naija at YALI Network Face2Face Dinner &
Awards, Olamide Live In Concert and Headies
2015 respectively. Swap Naija is a mobile app for
both Android and Blackberry devices, which
enables smart-phone users in Nigeria to swap
airtime from one network to another, thus
breaking the previous constraint of network.
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