As I walked to my hotel room, I noticed a No Smoking sign and I quizzed the hotel staff walking with me if people really did not smoke while they were there. After a few yes and some more ‘really?!’ like questions from me, he finally laughed and said “you…

By building an open digital nation? — Work is hard, we work endless work hours, endure mad traffic and still do not make enough to survive, let alone flex. I believe we can do better, I believe we can work smarter and more in tune with how we live and how the world is changing. The world…

By leveraging communities, social impact projects and mental models. — We want to help Nigerians hack their way to growth, by helping them get that dream job, build that awesome product, grow their side hustle, scale their main business or excel in their current career and climb the corporate ladder. How? By using mental model workshops like: Design Thinking User Thinking …

By leveraging open social impact projects and mental models local community problems can be solved and learning can happen by doing. — “We always have to buy water because when we pump water, it isn’t clean. And buying water is expensive,” says Moses a 27-year-old Nigerian who lives in Victoria Island, Lagos. This problem isn’t unique to Moses. Nigeria has 215 cubic kilometers (215 trillion liters) of available surface water each year…

Over the last 2 years, various communities have started locally and evolved. From Devcenter Square to forLoop to ScaleMyHustle and Startup Grind Lagos. These are some of the communities that are popular in Nigeria. But apart from helping members learn, connect and grow, are there other uses for a community? …

Using personalisation algorithms, microlearning principles, mental models and a dash of community spirit, learning becomes like chilling. — Imagine being able to learn any career skill the way you would cook food — by following a set of steps in a recipe cookbook. Frintern is the career accelerator that helps you learn career skills using mental models. Mental models are your thought processes about how things work in…

Join us in changing the way we learn — Deleted and republished article What if there was a way for you and a whole lot of other persons to learn by doing what they already do online; interacting and chatting with friends. A way people can learn for free and from wherever they are. And all they need is: …

We never stop learning even while working, so why should learning take so long? — Deleted and republished article Learn to Work is a program we designed to help increase the availability of the kind of skilled worker today’s fast-paced business environment needs. It is part of Frintern’s Micro Incubation program. It is designed to happen entirely online and run for 3 hours and you…

A market and product research essay on the impact of fintech advancement on members of a subsection of the informal market in Lagos, Nigeria. — The International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimates that the average size of the informal economy as a percentage of gross national income (GNI) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is 42.3%. In Nigeria, it is 60%. With the number of Nigerian FinTech startups and companies around and even more starting up, I wondered…