Android Phones of 50k in Nigeria and Their Prices (2026)

Android at this money comes with a keypad: on the itel it9320, a 2.8-inch touchscreen sits above the buttons. Every other new phone under ₦50,000 on Jumia Nigeria is a plain button phone, and the cheapest new phone with a full touchscreen from a brand you would know is ₦77,500.

The exchange rate explains most of it. On the Central Bank’s own figures a dollar cost about ₦306 in 2018 and costs about ₦1,330 today. Phones are imported, so ₦50,000 has gone from about $163 of phone to about $38.

Phones under ₦50,000 on Jumia and their prices

These are the new phones inside the budget, at the lowest price a seller was asking for each. Only the first runs Android.

The same phone can cost a lot more from another seller, so sort by price and open a few listings. Jumia marks some sellers with an Official Store badge, and when two prices are close, take the seller with the badge. The Tecno T528 is ₦23,000 from an Official Store against ₦21,000 from the cheapest seller.

The it9320 and its Airtel lock

Buy this phone if you need WhatsApp. Airtel sells the same phone as the Airtel Smarta Phone, and its page lists Android Go, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, a 2.8-inch touchscreen, a 3,000mAh battery, 4G and a Wi-Fi hotspot. WhatsApp, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook Lite come installed. It will feel small and slow next to a full smartphone, but nothing else at this price runs those apps at all.

Read the listing before you pay. Some sellers state that their unit is locked to Airtel and takes no other SIM. A buyer’s comment under one of those listings says the Airtel SIM has to go in the first slot, with another network in the second. If Airtel is weak where you live, ask the seller which version you are getting. Here are the it9320 listings on Jumia, cheapest first.

None of the button phones in the table is listed with WhatsApp. WhatsApp’s help centre also says the app is no longer available on KaiOS, the system behind an older generation of “smart” button phones.

Skip the itel 6360, which one listing calls “Semi Android” and another “Smart Touch”. Its feature list gives Java, Opera Mini and a touch keypad, and neither description says anything about Android apps. At ₦44,100 it costs ₦5,600 more than the it9320, which does run Android.

What the button phones are for

A hotspot for a laptop is one job. The Tecno T902 is ₦33,000, and its listing gives 4G, a Wi-Fi hotspot and a 2,500mAh battery. The same listing says in capitals that the phone is not Android, which is at least honest. The itel Neo R60+ does the same job with a bigger 3.0-inch screen, but it costs ₦8,750 more and has a smaller battery, so we would not pay the difference.

Look again at the it9320 before you buy either. It is about ₦5,500 more than the T902, and it has a hotspot too, plus a bigger battery and Android. The T902 only makes sense if the Airtel lock rules the itel out.

For calls alone, do not spend 50k. The T528 has a 2.8-inch screen, a camera with a flash and Opera Mini for ₦21,000. The T353 has a smaller screen and a 3,000mAh battery for ₦18,500. Either one leaves about ₦30,000 in your pocket, and we compare more phones at that level in phones of 30k in Nigeria.

Days away from power are the case for the Tecno T485, with a 4,000mAh battery at ₦31,700. The screen is the same size as the T528’s and the price is ₦10,700 higher, so buy it for the battery or not at all.

Full touchscreen phones above 50k

This is how far the budget has to stretch, at the lowest prices for new phones on Jumia.

Between 50k and 60k there is one new touchscreen phone, the MKTEL A19 Pro Mini, from a brand we cannot vouch for. Its listing claims a 4.5-inch screen, a 2,000mAh battery and Android 10, which is an old version.

The itel A18 is the first name you will know, and it is ₦27,500 over the budget. Its listing gives a 5.0-inch screen, Android 12 Go edition and 3G only, so no 4G.

Every phone in the table down to the itel A50 has 2GB of RAM, and a phone with that little memory will feel slow early. The first one we would point a friend to is the Honor X5b, with 4GB of RAM for ₦110,000, which is ₦7,500 more than the A50. Only one seller had it at that price, and several of these lowest prices were one seller’s last few units, so look at the next price up as well.

There is no new 4GB or 6GB RAM phone under 50k. Listings that claim 4GB or more start at about ₦80,000, from brands and sellers we cannot vouch for. Between ₦75,000 and ₦100,000 Jumia also has Android phones from AGM, redbeat, Villaon and Oale. We can tell you what their listings claim and nothing more, so read them closely. The AGM Note N2 at ₦79,843 is titled as a 6GB phone, and further down the same page that turns into 3GB of RAM plus 3GB of “virtual RAM”.

Tecno and Infinix do not start until about ₦155,000. Both are covered in Tecno phones of 50k in Nigeria and Infinix phones of 50,000 naira.

Renewed phones on Jumia

Jumia sells refurbished phones under the name Renewed, and they miss the budget too. The cheapest is a Huawei Y5P with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage at ₦55,500, followed by an Oppo A83 at ₦62,105.

These are old models with old software. The A83’s listing gives Android 7.1. The Y5P’s listing offers a one-year warranty through the seller’s own shop in Ikeja, so the promise is only as good as that seller. Jumia’s product pages offer free returns within 7 days on eligible items. Test everything in that first week.

Used phones on Jiji

The used smartphones advertised on Jiji between ₦25,000 and ₦50,000 are mostly very old: a Samsung Galaxy S5, an iPhone 6 and a Samsung Galaxy J3 at ₦35,000 each, and an LG Nexus 5X at ₦40,500. A used Oppo A57 and a Vivo Y55s were ₦40,000 each, and newer phones like those are the ones worth chasing.

Age matters because apps stop supporting old software. WhatsApp’s help centre says it needs Android 6.0 or newer, or iOS 15.1 or newer on an iPhone. Apple’s list of phones that can run iOS 15 goes back no further than the iPhone 6s. So that ₦35,000 iPhone 6 cannot run WhatsApp.

Before you pay for any used phone:

• Open Settings, then About phone, and read the Android version. Below 6.0, leave it.
• Type *#06# on the dial pad. The IMEI that appears should be the one printed on the box or the receipt.
• Slot your own SIM into each tray, call someone and have them call you back. Listen through the earpiece and the loudspeaker, then plug in a charger and watch it charge.
• Ask for a factory reset while you stand there. A phone that restarts asking for somebody else’s Google account or Apple ID is locked to that person. Do not buy it.
• Fill the screen with white, then with black. Lines, dark patches or a yellow tint mean a damaged screen.
• Note the battery percentage when you start and when you finish. Several per cent gone in ten minutes means a worn battery.
• Buy where you can walk back in next week, and take a receipt with the IMEI written on it.
• Be more careful, not less, when a price is far below the others.