How Nigerian E-Commerce Companies Are Losing the Peak Season Battle Before It Starts
The Black Friday projections come through in September. The operations team looks at the order volume assumptions and quietly begins calculating how […]
Your Last-Mile Delivery Problem Is Actually a People Problem
You invested in the tracking software. You upgraded the route optimisation. You rolled out GPS for the entire fleet. And your customer […]
What Your CTO Is Not Telling You About the Engineering Team
At some point in the past 12 months, something happened in your engineering organisation that you found out about later than you […]
The Interview Performance That Has Nothing to Do With Job Performance
You have sat across from this person. The answers were precise, well-structured, and delivered with exactly the right mix of confidence and […]
What a Recession Does to Nigerian Tech Hiring and How to Prepare Before It Arrives
Economists are calling it a “Great Freeze.” Workers are not leaving. Companies are not expanding. The talent market has entered a holding […]
Why Nigerian Founders Make Their Worst Hiring Decisions When the Business Is Going Well
Your investors did not give you capital to hire. They gave you capital to build a business. This distinction matters most in […]
The Logistics Company’s Hidden Labour Problem: It’s Not the Drivers
Open any conversation about Nigerian logistics operations and the same word appears within the first two minutes: drivers. Driver reliability. Driver behaviour. […]
What the E-Commerce Companies That Survived 2025 Did Differently With Their People
In February 2025, Vendease cut 44% of its workforce, just months after an earlier round of layoffs in September 2024. Jumia reduced […]
The FMCG Sales Force That Looks Productive on Paper and Is Bleeding Market Share in Reality
A key distributor in Kano quietly reduced their order volume by 30%. Nobody noticed until it showed up as a regional shortfall […]
Why Nigerian Banks Are Building Digital Products With the Wrong People
Picture the last Nigerian bank app that genuinely surprised you. Take your time. Nigerian banks have invested billions of naira in digital […]
More Engineers Will Not Fix a Product Problem
The roadmap is slipping. Standups reveal blockers that carry over week after week. The product team is pushing back on timelines engineering […]
The Org Chart Is Lying to You
Pull up your company’s org chart. The boxes are clean. The lines of authority are clear. Reporting relationships are logical. It is […]