OPay, one of Nigeria’s leading fintech companies, said it remains fully operational in the country and it’s doubling down on its financial inclusion campaign across Africa’s most populous nation.
The company made the disclosure at a town hall in Lagos on Wednesday, September 2, following social-media reports claiming that OPay would stop operating in Nigeria from September 1.
“OPay is here, OPay is operating, and OPay is going nowhere,” Dotun Adekunle, OPay’s chief operating officer and chief technology officer, said at the event. “There is no decision by OPay to shut down its operations in Nigeria, and there is no indefinite leave.”
Adekunle said the company’s services remained fully operational on September 2, despite the claims circulating online. He urged customers and merchants to rely on OPay’s official communication channels before acting on information that could affect their finances.
He also said the Central Bank of Nigeria had acknowledged the information as fake news.
