Our Story
Online since 2004.
When Nigeria still reached the internet from a cybercafé.
Before Jumia. Before Konga. Before Jiji. Before Paystack.
naijamart.com was registered in November 2003 and has been online since March 2004. You do not have to take our word for it. The Internet Archive has captured this site every single year since, and anyone can go and look.
For perspective on what that means: Jumia and Konga both launched in 2012. Jiji arrived in 2014. Paystack was founded in 2015, Flutterwave in 2016. When NaijaMart first went online, most Nigerians reached the internet from a cybercafé, paid by the hour.
See NaijaMart in 2004 on the Internet Archive →We saw it early
In those first years we were not just running a marketplace. We built an online payment wallet so Nigerians could receive money on their own websites and move funds to any Nigerian bank. We built ticketing. We built a social network. We built a news platform and a development centre.
Nigeria was not ready, and neither was its infrastructure. There were no smartphones in most pockets, no reliable card rails, no fintech industry to speak of. Some people thought it was funny. We kept going anyway.
Years later the world caught up, and the things we had been building became an industry. We do not say this to claim credit for anyone else's success. We say it because it explains who we are: we are not newcomers to this. We have been working at the problem of Nigerian online commerce for more than twenty years, through the years when nobody was watching.
We are not a startup
We have watched Nigerian e-commerce arrive, boom, consolidate, and change hands. We are still here. Still Nigerian-owned. Still building.
That longevity shapes what we build. We are not chasing an exit or optimising for a funding round. We are building the platform we believe Nigerian buyers and sellers actually need — which is why we charge no commission on your sales, why payment protection is built into the core rather than sold as an extra, and why you can create a listing just by talking to your phone if typing is not convenient.
Eleven platforms. One account.
Most marketplaces do one thing. NaijaMart runs eleven connected verticals — general goods, property, vehicles, events, event vendors, auctions, dispatch, freelancers, hangouts, artisan services, and the Trust payment engine that protects deals across all of them.
One account. One reputation. One way of getting paid safely.
Backed by a bank that means it
NaijaMart is proud to partner with Providus Bank — one of Nigeria's most respected and fastest-growing commercial banks, known for the strength of its technology and the seriousness with which it treats digital business. This partnership is a statement about the standard we hold ourselves to.
₦5,000 is ₦5,000
Whether you sell one item or one thousand.
| You sell in a month | On NaijaMart | On other platforms |
|---|---|---|
| ₦500,000 | ₦5,000 | ₦17,500 – ₦77,500 |
| ₦1,000,000 | ₦5,000 | ₦32,500 – ₦152,500 |
| ₦5,000,000 | ₦5,000 | ₦152,500 – ₦752,500 |
| ₦10,000,000 | ₦5,000 | ₦302,500 – ₦1,502,500 |
Sell ₦10 million in a month. On NaijaMart you pay ₦5,000. Elsewhere the same sales could cost you ₦1.5 million. Same goods. Same month.
A seller doing ₦1 million a month pays ₦60,000 a year on NaijaMart. Elsewhere, the same seller pays between ₦390,000 and ₦1,830,000.
Some platforms charge from ₦11,499 a month just to make your listings visible. NaijaMart Premium is ₦5,000, and your listings show without paying extra.
We are not going to tell you we are the cheapest. Look at the numbers and decide for yourself.
Based on publicly published seller terms as at September 2026. Some Nigerian marketplaces charge seller commission of roughly 3%–15% per sale depending on category, in addition to monthly seller subscriptions (from ₦1,000–₦2,500/month). Some charge visibility packages from approximately ₦11,499/month. Terms vary by platform and category — check each platform's current terms. NaijaMart charges 0% commission on sales.
What has not changed since 2004
Buying from a stranger online in Nigeria still comes down to one question: will this person actually deliver once I have paid?
That is the problem NaijaMart Trust exists to solve.
- Money is held until delivery is proven by both sides — the seller submits proof, and the buyer confirms with a code only they can see.
- Payouts go only to bank accounts verified against the recipient's identity. There is no way to redirect a payout at the last minute.
- Either party can raise a dispute before release. A neutral arbitrator reviews the evidence and decides — and both parties agreed to that before any money moved.
Twenty-two years on, that is still the job.
