In the cramped back offices and market stalls that form the backbone of Nigeria’s economy, a quiet revolution is being plotted. The weapon: data. The arsenal: a new platform named Afiam. This is not merely the launch of another business app; it is the deployment of a strategic command center designed to empower the small business general on the front lines of a volatile economy.
The fundamental conflict Afiam addresses is one of asymmetry. Large corporations have long been fortified by ERP systems, data analytics, and CRM platforms—the “command and control” infrastructure of modern business. Meanwhile, the SMEs that constitute over 90% of Nigerian businesses have been fighting a guerrilla war with paper ledgers and gut feelings. This intelligence gap is what Chinonso Dickson, Afiam’s Founder and CTO, has targeted.
“We are not just building an app; we are bridging a tactical deficit,” Dickson asserts. “We want to give the small business owner the same situational awareness that a large enterprise takes for granted. This is about turning intuition into strategy.”
The platform functions as a centralized intelligence hub
