Every month there is a new payment gateway launching or already in beta. And everyday i ask myself 'why is that? Is it because of Nigeria's population or the increasing amount of entrepreneurs in Nigeria rising everyday.

Yes Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and second if not the first country with the highest number of internet users in Africa.
These facts are so great and enough for even me to launch a payment gateway like yesterday.

But one major problem that we ignore and has been right in-front of us for like 3yrs is that paypal doesn't pay Nigerians(Am still wondering why).
The truth is that there are alot of people that are in need of a bridge between paypal and their local bank account.

Think about the market - Blogger is the 13th site in Nigeria now think about the amount of bloggers not to talk of the other half on wordpress. its pretty safe to say that there are over 1m bloggers in nigeria.
And alot of bloggers make money through advertisment, affiliate and freelance companies that pay through paypal.

Last month when i launched my startup/tech news aggregator www.nxtrated.com (pls check it out) i was just doing research on how to receive money through paypal, but unfortunately it was not possible unless you use a pioneer card which will get to you within 60 days from America or ILLEGAL method :wink:

finally in a nutshell all am saying is we need a payment gateway that can bridge the gap between paypal and Nigeria. trust me the company will sell big.

You made a lot of sense. But it seems nobody is thinking in that direction.

There is a petition ongoing now for Nigerians to recieve payments through paypal, let everyone go sign it and tell their people. I am not sure I quite get what you mean by gateway...?

Brightgem:
There is a petition ongoing now for Nigerians to recieve payments through paypal, let everyone go sign it and tell their people. I am not sure I quite get what you mean by gateway...?

let's have the link to the petition

NOTGOINGDOWN:
let's have the link to the petition

https://www.change.org/p/paypal-let-nigerians- receive-funds-with-paypal

Not just Nigeria, but the entire globe! Pretty please.

Brightgem:

https://www.change.org/p/paypal-let-nigerians- receive-funds-with-paypal

tanx, I've signed it