Disruption & You
6 min readJul 26, 2022
The evolution of airtime recharge in Nigeria, and what it teaches us about change
In 2007 when I relocated to Lagos to make my luck in the big city, the only means of purchasing airtime was by buying scratch cards or recharge cards as they are more popularly called on this side of the world. Initially, it was a small card (about the size of an ATM card), branded in the colours of each service provider, with a silver panel on one…
