Victoria Thomas

Yaba is the stretch of Lagos between the University of Lagos gate and the Sabo roundabout where Nigeria’s start-up economy became visible enough to earn a nickname: Yabacon Valley . The cluster runs along Herbert Macaulay Way and its side streets — CcHUB,... See more

In 2019, a Lagos distributor of industrial chemicals doing ₦2.8 billion in annual revenue lost its founder to a cardiac event on a Sunday morning. By Tuesday, the bank had frozen the operating accounts pending letters of administration. By Friday, three o... See more

By Adaeze Okonkwo · Lagos desk When Nigerian business people say “Yaba,” they mean the short stretch of Herbert Macaulay Way between the Sabo roundabout and the University of Lagos gate — the axis where the country’s venture-backed startup layer concentra... See more

Yaba’s tech cluster —the dense strip of software firms, incubators, and co-working spaces around Herbert Macaulay Way and its side streets—gets called the engine of Nigeria’s digital economy so often that the phrase has lost its shape. The more precise qu... See more

Yaba’s tech cluster —the dense strip of software firms, incubators, and co-working spaces running from Herbert Macaulay Way toward the University of Lagos—gets called the engine of a new Nigerian economy. The claim needs sharper scrutiny. The hubs are rea... See more