Built in Lagos. Built for Nigerian Traders.
MyTreda exists because Nigerian traders deserve better tools than a notebook and a prayer.
Tochukwu Nwosa
Founder, MyTreda Technologies Ltd
Lagos, Nigeria
I grew up in an Igbo trading family. Business wasn't something I studied — it was something I watched every day. The hustle, the relationships, the trust between traders and their customers, the apprenticeship system where a young person gives years of their life to learn a trade from an oga.
I watched my brother run a trading business in Onitsha Main Market. He had a nwa boi helping him — a young apprentice who lived with him and learned the trade. My brother trusted him. But one day, sitting down to count his money, he realised something was wrong. Products were leaving the shop. The cash wasn't matching. His nwa boi had been selling items and not recording them. Pocketing the difference, quietly, for months.
By the time my brother noticed, the damage was done. He had to let the boy go halfway through their agreed years — a serious matter in Igbo culture, where releasing a nwa boi early without settlement carries weight for everyone involved. He had no clear records. No audit trail. Just a gap in his profits he couldn't fully explain.
Then in 2025, I was sitting in an MTN office at Computer Village in Ikeja, waiting to re-register my SIM card. The man in the camera equipment shop next door opened his drawer, pulled out a notebook, and started writing down what he had just sold. Carefully. By hand. In 2025.
I sat there thinking: this is still happening. In one of the busiest tech markets in Lagos, a trader is recording his sales in a notebook — one flood, one fire, one dishonest apprentice away from losing everything.
I also live in Surulere. I buy from traders around my area on credit. More than once, I've come back to pay and the shop owner couldn't remember exactly what I owed. One said one figure. Another time, a different figure. We'd agree on something, neither of us certain. Sometimes I overpaid. Sometimes I underpaid. Nobody was comfortable.
These aren't careless people. They're hardworking traders running real businesses with no tools built for them.
That's why I built MyTreda.
One place to run your trading business.
MyTreda is an inventory management and business tracking app built specifically for Nigerian traders — provision shop owners, boutique owners, electronics dealers, pharmacists, wholesalers, and market traders.
It helps you track your stock, record every sale, manage customer debts, and monitor what your staff is doing — all from your phone, all working offline when network is bad.
It was not built for accountants. It was not built for corporations. It was built for the trader at Computer Village who is still writing in a notebook.
Track your stock
Know what you have, what's selling, and what to restock. Get alerts before you run out.
Record every sale
Every transaction logged with a timestamp. Know your real revenue and profit, not just your gut feeling.
Manage debts and staff
Know who owes you and how much. Know what your team is doing. Stop relying on trust alone.
Give every Nigerian trader a proper business.
Not a fancy one. Not an expensive one. A proper one — where the owner knows their numbers, their records are safe, and growth is possible because the foundation is solid.
Nigerian traders move billions of naira every year. They employ millions of people through the apprenticeship system. They are the backbone of the informal economy. They deserve tools that actually work for their world — not tools built for someone else and adapted badly.
That's what we're building.
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