PayPal have been open for business internationally for over 16 years, but have only been in the Nigerian market for about 3-4 months. As a young man who came up in the early nineties when the world wide web became widely known, I was one of the very interested young people desperate to make a difference via this new intrusion called the internet. I got to know about companies like ebay, PayPal, Amazon and the like as soon as the emerged. Naturally I was drawn to the endless possibilities the internet could offer, one of which is commerce. I tried to make a transactions online, but these transactions wouldn't go through because I come from a country that is widely known to send scam emails and defraud people especially over the internet. The years rolled by and PayPal became the biggest means of payment online.

It has been frustrating to be restricted from online commerce for so long and now we have the service, PayPal. Finally we have the service but the fact is we here in Nigeria can now register for PayPal and send money abroad to obtain what we want online but we cannot receive any funds whatsoever. It is still as frustrating not to have the entire service here in Nigeria which is the largest black nation in the world with a massive online presence of over 55 million people according to some studies.

What PayPal Inc. have done here in Nigeria is incomprehensible to me. Why enable the service at all if we cannot have full access to it? If they were so concerned about cyber-security in the Nigerian market why did they bring the service at all? It is illogical not to enable fully, a service that could help small time entrepreneurs in our country.

Whatever the reasons are for the status quo, it is not enough. We either have the PayPal service completely, or we don't have it at all.

Please sign my petition to help my cause. Thank You.