date:Mar 25, 2014
South African retailer Shoprite on Thursday opened its first outlet in northern Nigeria, as part of an aggressive expansion drive and defying wider concerns about security in the region. The store in Kano, the north's largest city and main commercial hub, is situated in the new $110-million (80-million-euro) Ado Bayero Mall that has taken three years to construct and claims to be Nigeria's biggest.
The new venture, at a cost of $20 million, brings to eight the number of Shoprite stores in Niger