BY JONAH NWOKPOKU

GREENFIELD Assets Limited says its Aba Mega Mall being constructed at the cost of N50 billion (about three-hundred-million dollar) will go online on the day it is commissioned. “We are going to have Aba Mega Mall online. So the e-commerce of this mall will commence operation at the commissioning. What that means is that if you can’t come down to the mall to shop, you can shop online, wherever you are in the country.

Even if you are in Lagos or Abuja, you can shop from any shop in the mall and it will be delivered to you at your location,” said Paul Obanua, Group Managing Director of the company. According to him, the project when completed and operational will stimulate economic activities in the state and the entire South-East and South-South regions of the country.

He also stated that on completion, the project would be the first mall with a dry port in Nigeria and Africa as well as the biggest mall in the continent. “The dry port is going be a 30,000 square meter bonded warehouse, which affords people of the South-East the opportunity of getting their goods in, on time. So, they don’t suffer time wastages, due to port congestion at our various sea ports.

“We are going to also offer good storage facilities-automated climate controlled facility. So this mall is going to be a one-stop-shop. And by the second phase, you are going to have a 100-room hotel come up here at the Aba Mega Mall. “So, we are going to have a section that will be called the Aba Business Resort, so that you have your events here, like conferences and when you are in the South-East, you can also lodge in and do your business.”