Jumia Nigeria has hit 1 Million Facebook fans, showing the speedily growing brand has gained significant acceptance on social media. Leveraging on social networks and online channels, Jumia introduced the novel idea of shopping online, which was quickly and widely accepted by Nigerians, leading to them reaching the 500,000 fans landmark in less than a year. Now 2 years old, Jumia has been able to acquire 1 million fans on the largest social network in World. As part of its initiatives to appreciate its esteemed customers and amazing fans, Jumia in the Month of August awarded Olome Ochonogor Joseph, Customer of the month for his active participation & loyalty on Jumia’s social platforms since 2012. Olome Joseph is one of the renowned Jumia fans on Facebook and twitter, who has truly followed the brand since inception with countless items & goodies to show for it. He was very elated to be recognized by Jumia and lauded the brand for its efforts towards making shopping easy & convenient for Nigerians. Managing director of marketing and sales Jonathan Doerr stated: “It is amazing to have 1million Nigerians solidly standing behind us, showing their support online. As we attain this milestone, we would like to thank all our fans on Facebook and across other social media platforms because we could not have gotten here without them. To Olome, who won our Social Customer of the month, Congratulations! He truly deserves it. This is another opportunity to show our customers how much they mean to us & thank them for their loyalty without which, we will not be NO 1”. To celebrate this Milestone, Jumia Nigeria will be having special giveaways on Facebook, so to all the fans out there, here your opportunity to participate and win Big