Just within three weeks of its launch, the Multi-million dollar Delta Mall located in the Warri-Effurun metropolis has been recording about 12,000 visitors daily.

This was disclosed by head of the Mall’s management team of Broll Properties, consultants to investors of the Delta Mall, Oni Olusola, who said that the project would be launched in three phases, including the shopping complex, a Lunch, Cinema and play arena.

He explained that the newly commissioned Mall has so far been such an instant and unprecedented success that the management was already considering expanding the facility, even though work was still ongoing on the remaining two phases scheduled for commissioning in July and September.

Olusola explained that the objective was to open up the Nigerian economy with a lot of credible foreign investors coming in and a lot of jobs created, he added, noting that about 57 per cent of the workforce at Delta Mall has been recruited from the host community, primarily from the Uvwie Local Government Area.

“The idea of a mall is to create a place where shoppers come together to buy and everything they want they can get; and, since we opened this Mall for trading we have been doing about 12,000 footfalls everyday.

“I can tell you this, the shopping mall is still at its infant stage in Nigeria. It’s going to be like the Telecoms business, or even bigger than the Telecoms business in the country. The dream is that in future we won’t have to operate the open market in our towns and cities. Traders and market women will sell in the mall, in a better environment,” he said.