NAIRABOT

Nairabot is an exchange rate “mallam” that lives in Facebook Messenger. It is formerly known as FXbot. Nairabot is designed to provide instant exchange rates for a limited number of currencies against the Naira. Nigeria is the most mobilized country in the world today, and A LOT of our communication happens via Instant Messaging platforms. Jason’s thesis is that messaging platforms will become “the internet” and that’s how the information will primarily flow from user to user. In the same vein, he found a 23-year old developer based in Yaba, named Fowotade “Jihdeh” Babajide. Babajide built a Facebook Messenger bot that users can query for each day’s parallel exchange rates (not the fake one CBN is keeping up) and called it Nairabot (formerly known as FXbot).