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A First Look At Gokada In The Post-Fahim Saleh Days

By  |  October 28, 2020

That black Wednesday

A dark cloud hung over the entire startup sphere in Nigeria and beyond in the middle of July this year, and no one could have seen it coming.

On the morning of that day, a terribly shaken Nikhil Goel watched the entire team assemble at the Gokada office in Lagos, each person just as shocked as he was. Like him, they had all heard the horrifying news - Fahim Saleh had been murdered in his New York apartment.

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