Tech start-ups drive change for Nigerian truckers

Until a year ago, Friday Ighodaro spent three or four nights a month getting pulled out of his 30- tonne Steyr truck on the unlit highways of rural Nigeria by armed robbers. They know that long- haul truckers carry cash advances for provisions along the way, he said. “Nowadays in Nigeria when you carry money, it’s very dangerous,” he said. Bandits prowl the roads across the country, “but now when they stop you on the road when they see the Honeywell sign, they know we don’t carry cash.”

Mr. Ighodaro is an owner-operator who hauls grain to every corner of Nigeria for Honeywell Flour Mills and other clients of Kobo360, a 20-month-old start-up which announced earlier this month that it had raised $30m in debt and equity in a funding round led by Goldman Sachs…

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