If you are Nigerian and on social media, your timeline this week is probably flooded with videos of car rooftops barely visible above floodwater stretching for blocks, or of someone’s living room overtaken by flowing brown water. Keep scrolling, and you will probably find someone warning others to avoid a route because of traffic congestion.
Whether it’s flooding in Lagos, election violence, a car accident, a building collapse, or a fuel tanker explosion, social media has become the country’s unofficial public alert system.
Three young Nigerian founders believe that this behaviour deserves its own platform.
Oriekaose Agholor, Adetunji Adewoye, and Kosi Kabiri launched the Wahala App in April 2026, a public incident-reporting mobile and web platform where users can report and receive real-time incident alerts about crime, flooding, election irregularities, and infrastructure failures.
Originally published by TechCabal.