You’ve felt it, haven’t you? A collective wince when the conversation turns to loans, debt, and credit scores. In Nigeria, it is a topic often shrouded in fear, shame, and the looming spectre of the "blacklist". We’ve been conditioned to see credit as a trapdoor; one wrong step and you fall into a pit of financial and social exclusion.

“When borrowers see weak contract enforcement and feel that the system is stacked against them, the incentive to repay diminishes.”

But what if we’ve
You’ve felt it, haven’t you? A collective wince when the conversation turns to loans, debt, and credit scores. In Nigeria, it is a topic often shrouded in fear, shame, and the looming spectre of the "blacklist". We’ve been conditioned to see credit as a trapdoor; one wrong step and you fall into a pit of financial and social exclusion.

“When borrowers see weak contract enforcement and feel that the system is stacked against them, the incentive to repay diminishes.”

But what if we’ve