Do you know about ECOWAS?

The Economic Community of West African States also known as ECOWAS was established on May 28, 1975 in Lagos, Nigeria, as a regional inter governmental organization. It is headquartered in Abuja, Nigeria. The ECOWAS is currently made up of 15 member states namely: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra-Leone, Gambia, and Togo.

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Xtrip delivers first package in New York

It was an ecstasy at the commencement of our foreign logistics operations. The Chief Responsibility Officer of Xtrip Express, Sunday Obanubi shared with us during the week, the first operation of shipping across border.

Allsocks Nigeria, a maker of 100% Nigerian brand of socks had a package to deliver to New York, but after a bitter experience of shipping with the national courier company and still not received the parcel in the United States since November 2016, Allsocks boss was skeptical to ship with Xtrip coupled with the cost which more than quadruple the fee paid the national courier company.

Amazon set to launch ‘Uber for deliveries’ in the UK

Photograph: Chris Radburn/PA Wire

Amazon is taking the sharing economy to the next level, recruiting amateur drivers to deliver packages for the global online retailer.

Amazon Flex, which was piloted in Seattle, is coming to the UK, offering drivers an hourly rate to work in areas of their own choosing. It estimates that 

Today's Memoir - Interesting start for Xtrip

What a hectic and rowdy day in delivery, logistics and travels it was today. After our launch barely in 24hours, we have been receiving highly commendable feed backs and customer enquiries. The very interesting part are the requests and the orders placed.

A client in Abuja who relocated from Lagos but still some of her luggage has asked us to get the remaining bus load over to her in Wuye, Abuja from Oke-Ira in Lagos. Yours truly, visited the location with a partner and immediately got back to the client on the process and cost requirement which truly is the cheapest possible to deliver on such service.