Author: Yomi Black

UK-used means the phone was owned and used abroad, usually in the UK, US or Europe, then imported and resold here. It is not refurbished, it is not graded by anyone official, and the label tells you nothing about condition. That last point is the whole problem. Two phones sold as “UK-used iPhone 17 Pro…

A locked phone is one you cannot fully use. There are two separate locks, they are not the same problem, and only one of them is sometimes fixable. Locked handsets are the main reason a listing can look ₦700,000 cheaper than the market. Cost.ng does not publish prices for them, so no figure anywhere on…

“Fake” covers four different problems in the Nigerian phone market, and only one of them is an outright clone. The other three are genuine handsets being sold as something they are not. What you might be sold What it actually is Hardest to spot? Clone A different phone in a copied shell, running a skinned…