Most investor-readiness advice is written for a founder in San Francisco and omits the three things that most often stop African deals. Here is what readiness actually requires, and how to test whether you have it.
If you live in the US, the UK or Europe and run a Nigerian company, paying yourself is a cross-border tax question with a different answer in each country. Here is where your pay is taxed, salary versus dividends, and the traps that catch diaspora founders.
Nigeria's Tax Act 2025 took effect on 1 January 2026 and raised the threshold below which a company pays no income tax. Here is what your company now owes, how tax applies across borders, and the filing obligations founders most often miss.
Receiving dollars, holding value against a falling naira, paying people abroad, and getting profits back out. Here is how cross-border money works for founders in Nigeria, and the one document that decides whether your money can leave.
Where you register your company is one of the few early decisions that is hard to reverse. Here is how to weigh Nigeria, the UK and a Delaware parent, what "the flip" is, what it costs, and when it is worth doing.