Taskie, a Nigerian digital marketplace connecting customers with verified skilled professionals for everyday services, publicly launched in October 2026 after months of building, testing and onboarding professionals across the country. In its early weeks, the platform has onboarded more than 100 skilled professionals, recorded more than 40 bookings and completed more than 15 jobs, with completed work averaging a rating of about 5 stars.

For many Nigerian households, finding reliable help remains a stubborn challenge. A pipe starts leaking, an electrical fault needs fixing before the weekend, a move requires extra hands, or a home needs a cleaner, painter, air-conditioning technician or beauty professional who can actually be trusted. The typical search involves asking friends for phone numbers, posting in WhatsApp groups, scrolling through Instagram and calling several people in the hope that at least one shows up.

Even a personal recommendation leaves open questions: Is the person actually skilled? Will they show up? Is the price fair? What happens if the job goes wrong, and what recourse exists once payment has been made?

On the other side of the problem are thousands of skilled Nigerians who know how to do the work but struggle to find customers consistently. Their skills may be excellent, but their visibility is often limited to word of mouth, personal contacts and social media.

Taskie was built around a simple question: what if finding trusted help could be as easy as booking almost anything else online? Customers can discover professionals, review their profiles, request a job, communicate with them, receive invoices, pay through the platform and get support if anything goes wrong. For professionals, known as Taskers, the platform creates another way to be discovered, receive job opportunities, build a reputation through customer ratings and grow their income.

The idea is straightforward: less time searching, less uncertainty and more getting things done. The experience is designed to be simple enough that a customer can go from “I need someone” to “the job is done” without juggling multiple apps, phone numbers and conversations.

How Taskie works

1. Find the service you need. Customers search for a service or choose from categories such as plumbing, electrical work, cleaning, painting, generator services, AC services, carpentry, moving and beauty services.
2. Browse professionals. Customers review available Taskers and consider their profiles, experience, ratings and suitability for the job.
3. Send a request. The customer shares the job details, preferred time and location, and can add photos or other information that helps the professional understand the task.
4. Chat and agree on the job. Customers and Taskers communicate in the app, clarify the scope of work and agree on pricing. Taskers can then send an invoice.
5. Pay and get it done. Once the invoice is paid through Taskie, the booking is confirmed. The Tasker completes the work and the customer confirms the job.
6. Rate the experience. After a completed job, customers can leave a rating and review, helping future customers make more informed decisions and helping strong Taskers build their reputations.

Verification, payments and disputes

Taskie’s position is that convenience only matters when customers can feel confident about whom they are hiring.ers go through a verification process designed to establish their identity and skills before they can take bookings. The platform also keeps communication, invoices and payments inside Taskie, giving both sides a record of each transaction.

Customers pay a 7.5% Trust & Support Fee on their bookings, capped at ₦10,000. Because of the cap, even the largest bookings carry no more than ₦10,000 in fees. The fee supports verification, secure payment processing, dispute resolution and the systems that keep bookings on the platform. Taskie also operates a dispute process for situations where a booking does not go as expected.

The goal is not simply to help people find a professional, according to the company, but to make the entire experience — from the first search to payment and completion — more reliable. Taskie is not trying to convince Nigerians to learn new skills; it is trying to make the skills that already exist easier to discover. In the company’s view, being good at your job should be enough to get started, without requiring a large social media following or the right personal connections.

Services and coverage

The platform currently supports a growing range of services, including plumbing, electrical work, cleaning, painting, solar services, generator repairs, AC services, carpentry, moving help, beauty and personal care, and other everyday needs.

Taskie is available across Lagos, Abuja, Ibadan, Akure, Port Harcourt, Warri, Benin City and Kano, with more locations planned.

Early traction and feedback

Since its public launch, the platform has onboarded more than 100 skilled professionals, with more applications continuing to come in. Customers have also begun using Taskie to book services: more than 40 bookings have been recorded so far, and more than 15 jobs have been completed, giving the company its first real customer feedback and an average rating of about 5 stars on completed jobs.

For a marketplace, those early interactions matter. Every completed job gives the team another chance to learn what customers expect, what professionals need and where the product can become better. Both sides of that balance show up in the numbers the company reports: growth is counted in professionals onboarded as well as bookings made, since each side of a marketplace depends on the other.

Founder’s perspective

“We started Taskie because finding reliable help for everyday tasks should not feel harder than the task itself. There are incredibly talented professionals across Nigeria, but customers often don’t have an easy way to discover them, while those professionals can struggle to find consistent opportunities. We want to solve both sides of that problem. Our ambition is to make Taskie a platform Nigerians can trust whenever they need something done and eventually build that trust across Africa,” said Olu Olumolawa, Founder & CEO of Taskie.

For Olumolawa, the idea is also personal. Growing up around entrepreneurs in Nigeria, he saw firsthand how families often relied on referrals and informal relationships to find plumbers, electricians and other professionals — and how quickly things could go wrong when trust was missing. Taskie is his attempt to bring a more structured, technology-enabled experience to a market Nigerians already use every day.

Ambitions beyond Nigeria

Taskie’s immediate goal is to make it easier for Nigerians to find reliable professionals for the everyday tasks that keep homes, businesses and lives moving. The company’s stated ambition is much larger: to build the trusted infrastructure for everyday services across Africa — a place where a skilled professional can turn expertise into consistent opportunities and where customers can find the help they need without relying entirely on personal referrals.

As the network grows, Taskie hopes to create something bigger than a directory of service providers: a trusted marketplace where reputation, quality and reliability can travel with a professional.

For now, the company is focused on getting more Nigerians to try the platform and proving that finding trusted help can be simpler. That means growing its network of verified professionals, increasing completed bookings, improving the customer experience and expanding into more cities. Those stated priorities also give readers concrete markers to watch as the platform moves past its launch: the size of the verified professional network, the number of completed bookings, the ratings customers leave and the list of cities served.

About Taskie

Taskie is a Nigerian digital marketplace connecting customers with verified skilled professionals for everyday services. Its mission is to simplify access to reliable services while empowering skilled professionals with consistent job opportunities, fair earnings and tools to grow their livelihoods. Its vision is to become Africa’s most trusted platform for finding skilled workers and enabling reliable services across the continent.

Taskie Technologies Limited was founded in 2025 and is headquartered in Nigeria.

Availability and contact

Need a service? Customers can download the Taskie app, find a professional and book a task. Have a skill? Professionals can join Taskie as Taskers and start getting discovered by customers.

• Website: taskie.ng
• Book a service: taskie.ng/app/client
• Become a Tasker: taskie.ng/app/tasker
• How Taskie Works: taskie.ng/how-it-works
• Email: info@taskie.ng
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/taskienigeria
• Instagram: instagram.com/taskie.ng
• TikTok: tiktok.com/@taskie.ng
• X: x.com/taskie_ng

Somewhere in Nigeria, someone is probably staring at a leaking pipe, a broken appliance, an apartment that needs cleaning or a move that needs an extra pair of hands. The question, Taskie suggests, is no longer “Who do you know that can do this?” It could soon be: “Have you checked Taskie?”

Source: TechNext24