Former Andelan, Babajide Duroshola, joins SafeBoda as Country Head, Nigeria

Babajide Duroshola, former Community Manager, Technical Talent for Andela has resigned to join SafeBoda as its Country Head in Nigeria.

Babajide joined Andela from Access bank in December 1, 2016. As Community Manager, his job was to

• to lead the community and own the brand of Andela, to attract new community members and Fellows (now Engineers) to the organization.
• build and own regional strategy, outreach and messaging for the Community-at-large.
• build models, metrics of success and growth strategies, ensuring long-term success and growth of our community.

While at Andela, he achieved the following:

• grew Andela Nigeria’s internal developer community by a whopping 600%
• supported Andela’s expansion into Rwanda to recruit the first 2 cohorts
• supported our external community through the ALC to impact 30,000+ African developers with so many success stories of how lives have been changed

At SafeBoda, Babajide will be the Country Manager for Nigeria. SafeBoda is a Ugandan-based venture-backed bike-hailing start-up. Last year, SafeBoda expanded operations to Kenya and opened an engineering hub in Barcelona, Spain.

Now it is berthing in Nigeria which is already home to competitors like Gokada and MAX.

According to Babajide in an interview with Benjamin Dada, “It’s more than a ride-hailing company to me, the brand has an aura of emotion which I felt when I had my onsite with them. They have changed how people perceive Boda (Okada) drivers in Uganda and how they perceive themselves. And I’m looking to help them replicate that in Nigeria, starting in Lagos.”

Co-founder and co-CEO, Alastair Sussock said “We are exploring Lagos and other markets and Babajide is leading the efforts for SafeBoda in Nigeria. Really excited for the future and the super strong talent we now have on our team”.

Best of luck, Babajide