Before Flutterwave, he was Head, Digital Factory and Innovation at Access Bank, one of Nigeria’s most influential financial institutions. And right now, because of a widely-circulated exposé by the self-described “abrasive” freelance journalist David Hundeyin, GB appears to have become the target of many tech industry watchers’ fury. So, if you aggregate these niggling reports from Nigeria’s tech space, you may begin to wonder if there’s an ethical problem that needs to be urgently addressed. And with money, as I’ve said before, comes an inordinate level of power — power to make people, power to break lives. Whatever the case may be, and as IrokoTV founder, Jason Njoku, tweeted, for accountability purposes, someone needs to keep an eye on the Nigerian start-up ecosystem.

Source: The Guardian April 16, 2022 04:24 UTC