How Nugi Technologies built a decade of impact without Silicon Valley’s playbook

How Nugi Technologies built a decade of impact without Silicon Valley’s playbook

Ugi Augustine Ugi dreamt of becoming a medical doctor. Growing up in Calabar with sickle cell anaemia, medicine felt less like a career choice and more like a divine calling. His frequent visits have made hospitals familiar spaces. Survival demanded discipline. The future, as he imagined it, wore a white coat with a stethoscope. That plan unravelled quietly in a secondary school computer lab. An MTN technician had come to service the servers, Ug…