Flutterwave Partners Stanel Group to Empower Anambra Entrepreneurs

By Praise Chinecherem

A newly-licensed banking platform, Flutterwave is partnering with Stanel Group to build very massive impact programme that will benefit Anambra people and Nigerians at large.

The bank is committed to empowering businesses of all sizes with seamless payment solutions tailored for enterprises, startups, and emerging markets.

Nigerians in diaspora can also use Ur to send money home to loved ones, sell online as a small business, process global payments as an enterprise and build financial products as a startup.

Recently, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), this month granted Flutterwave a banking licence, enabling the fintech to transition from a pure payment service provider to offering full-scale financial services, including deposits, loans, and other banking products. This allows them to deepen their operations within Nigeria’s financial sector.

This was why Stanel World partnered with Flutterwave to empower tech entrepreneurs in Anambra State.

But speaking during an engagement meeting with Tech Community in Anambra State on Thursday, the Chief Executive Officer of the company, Olugbenga Agboola said the goal is to impact Anambra community in terms of technology, financing and lending with a view to creating more millionaires in the state.

He noted that Futterwaves is the biggest payment system out of Africa originating from Nigeria and founded by a Nigerian.

“Our services get to so many companies everywhere in Nigeria. We want Anambra to be a hub for the entire of Nigeria. We want to stamp our feet on every business here to become the consumer choice for consumer products in the state.

“Today we are planning an impact programme for entrepreneurs in the state. The target is to create more people who can create global platform from the state. We need tech that has gone global and with the banking licence we’ve just gotten, it can make it easy for young entrepreneurs across the state to go faster, bigger and reliable.

“For the past ten years, money that goes through our platform doesn’t stay. We want to give our customers ability to hold money by themselves through our Futterwaves.

This will make SMEs have access lending, use our PoS anywhere across Nigeria, pay anywhere, consumers can have their own account numbers in our system. It’s a simple way to bring more value to consumers and SMEs in Anambra State.

The Chief Executive Officer of Stanel Group, Dr Stanley Uzochukwu praised the authenticity of Futterwaves in sending and recieving money anywhere in the world.

He said Flutterwave is present in 36 African countries, committed to training and empowering younger entrepreneurs, hence deemed it necessary to attract the company to the state to Anambra young techies to grow over a hundred billionaires.

Stanel Group, founded in 2011, is a Nigerian conglomerate with a strong presence in energy, hospitality, FMCG, and agribusiness. Known for its “one-stop shop” service hubs in cities like Awka, Jos, Suleja, and Lagos, it provides quality fuel (PMS, AGO), fast food, bakeries, supermarkets, and car care services.

Some of the young techies present, expressed satisfaction with the partnership, saying it has greatly impacted their tech business.