“…Ayenagbo, Rongcheng, Wengjing, Nguchi, Kimatu and Patrick, 2013;Mukherjee, 2018), entrepreneurship (e.g. Chen, Fu, Wang, Tsai and Su, 2018), globalization and entrepreneurship (e.g Vinig & Kluijver, 2007;Petrova, 2013), the use of social media for networking (Kahar, Yamimi, Bunari and Habil, 2012;Yang, Cao, Andrikopoulou, Yan and Bass, 2020;Sayham, Datta, Brooks, 2019;Smith, Smith and Shaw, 2017). However, research scholarship on the use of social media for entrepreneurial networking is sparse and fragmented with unresolved and disparate findings (Olanrewaju, Hossain, Whiteside and Mercieca, 2020), and in the context of Nigeria and agency banking, there seems to be dearth of scientific scholarship and no adequate research attention directed to ascertain the use of social media platforms and networking to establish ties as well as the effect on the performance of agents banking firms.…”