VoguePay.com won the award as the “African Online Payment
Platform of the year” at the 6th
edition of the African Achievers Award 2016, an event put together by Institute
of Leadership and Management (a West African Leading Leadership Institute) and
Achievers Media.
The African Achievers Award was held at the International Conference
Center, Abuja, Nigeria on the 8th July, 2016. The award organizer,Institute of Leadership and
Management
(a West African Leading Leadership Institute) and Achievers Media, has consistently rewarded and honoured great
African Achievers across the continent. The Achievers Awardsis recognized as one of the biggest gathering of influential and global
African Achievers on the continent.
The principal partner of African Achievers Award, Mr. Tonye Rex
Idaminabo, remarked that VoguePay won special recognition award as the African
Online Payment Platform of the year as a result of their contribution to
online payment in Nigeria and Africa in general. VoguePay is a secure payment
gateway launched in 2012 with the vision to make online, cross-currency payments
and transactions safer, cheaper and more accessible for businesses, traders and
consumers in Africa and internationally. It has offices in Lagos, Nigeria and
UK with expansion plans to other African countries.
(L -R) The
Head of Technical, Africa of General Electrics presenting the certificate as “African Online Payment Platform of the year” award to Mohammed Ibrahim Jega, Head of Business Development, Africa
for VoguePay at the recently concluded African Achievers Award in Abuja,
Nigeria.
While
acknowledging the award, VoguePay representative, Mr. Mohammed Ibrahim Jega
(Head of Business Development, Africa) reiterated VoguePay’s commitment to
excellence as the award came on the heels of VoguePay’s recent honour as the
“best emerging online payment in Africa at the AIITA 2016. He noted that
VoguePay is the biggest payment gateway by merchant size in Nigeria and also serves customers in 4 continents
including North America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Along with
VoguePay, some of the visionaries African leaders honoured for their immense
contributions and legacies include the Presidents of Malawi and Zambia; Peter
Mutharika and Edgar Lungu respectively. Other award winners include John Momoh
(Chairman, Channels TV), Johnson Arthur Sakaja (National Chairman of Ruling
Party in Kenya), Mosima Gabriel (Former Minister, SA), Miss Angelle Kwemo (CEO,
Rimsom Strategies), Nakedi Mathews Phosa (Politician, SA), Senator Rabiu
Kwankwaso, Hon Thapelo Olopeng (Minister of Youth, Sports & Culture,
Botswana), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Mosima Gabriel “Tokyo” Sexwale;
one of top ten successful Businessmen in South Africa and other revered
accomplished Africans achievers who were honoured for their works and
contributions towards the growth and advancement of the African Continent.
The African
Achievers awards was previously hosted in Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and the
United Kingdom. Other notable African leaders who have received the award areArchbishop
Desmond Tutu, the late former President of Ghana, John Evans Atta-Mills, John
Fashanu, Platinumz Diamond, Dr Charles Dimnwaobi, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma etc.
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