Jumia Nigeria kicks off Mobile Week Megathon

Nigeria’s ecommerce giant Jumia Nigeria this morning kicked off what it described as one of its biggest sale of the year – “the Biggest Mobile Sales Ever’. The campaign is supported by MTN which is offering customers free data, another partner is Mediatek.

The Jumia Mobile Week Megathon will last for a week, which means it will end Sunday 7th of June at midnight.

Jumia has collaborated with all the major mobile brands to offer deals and amazing discounts on all mobile phones available on the website throughout the week. OEMs such as Archos, Blackberry, FLY, Huawei, iMose, Itel, Oraimo and Wiko are amongst the brands that Jumia has partnered with to bring to its customers the highest value for their money.

But the most noteworthy collaboration is undoubtedly the one Jumia stroke with the 7 biggest mobile brands in Nigeria in no particular order: InnJoo, Infinix, Tecno, Samsung, Apple, Lenovo and LG.

In addition to discounts on all the mobile phones of the brands, Jumia will offer its customers special “Hero” deals on all 7 brands. InnJoo will be unveiling in exclusivity its new InnJoo Fire and the best-seller InnJoo One.

Infinix, the highest selling mobile brand in Nigeria in March will have exclusive hero deals on the Infinix Hot X507 and the Infinix Hot Note.

Tecno will showcase its Tecno Y5 and L7 while Samsung will provide Jumia customers with an amazing hero deal on the Star Plus 2. Apple, through Istore, the authorized retailer of Apple in Nigeria, comes with incredible hero deals on its two latest phones: the Iphone 6 and the Iphone 6+.

Lenovo will offer hero deals on the A328 and A6000 and LG will close the show on Sunday with hero deals on the L60a and LG Magna.

Additional flash sales with discounts of 50% will also take place all through mobile week on hero deals and other new product launches. New hero deals will be revealed every day of the week, starting at 5am on the Jumia App and at 9am on the desktop version.

With the Mobile week Megathon, Jumia said it contributes to the formidable growth of mobile penetration in Nigeria and supported by MTN, makes internet penetration easier: every phone bought on Jumia during the Mobile Week will be coming with a free 1 month 3 Gigabyte data as well as a free music stream for 1 month with free SIM cards.