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Money with a heartbeat.

Meet Eva, the assistant inside the Pryme app. She opens accounts, moves money, saves toward your goals and follows up. Nothing leaves your account without your approval.

Meet Eva, the assistant inside the Pryme app. She holds dollars, pounds, euros and Naira side by side, swaps at a locked rate, pays bills in any of them and sends anywhere, asking before anything moves.

HomeEvery currency, every Box and every card on one screen.
Chat with EvaTell her the goal. She handles the steps and asks before anything moves.
Savings BoxesFlexible, Fixed, Investment and Interest-free, side by side.
Create a BoxPick the type, name the goal. Eva works out what to move, and when.
LoansSpaces credit and Salary Advance. Draw only what you need.
Invite friendsThree friends, ₦50,000 each, and ₦20,000 lands with you.
YouEva’s voice, your plan, your address and every security control.
Duress signalA word that looks normal on screen while your people are alerted.
Chat with EvaTell her the goal. She handles the steps and asks before anything moves.
Swap at the live rateOr name the rate you want and she swaps the moment it lands.
One card, every currencySpend from whichever balance suits, and freeze it from the app.
What Eva may do without askingStanding permissions, a voice, and a record of every rule you have given her.
Receipts anyone can verifyRegular or certified statements, e-signed and checkable by whoever receives them.
Open a personal account How we keep your money safe
Pryme app: Home
Pryme app: Chat with Eva
Pryme app: Savings Boxes
Pryme app: Create a Box
Pryme app: Loans
Pryme app: Invite friends
Pryme app: You
Pryme app: Duress signal
Pryme app: Chat with Eva
Pryme app: Swap at the live rate
Pryme app: Multicurrency card
Pryme app: What Eva may do without asking
Pryme app: Receipts and statements
MoneyAgentsApprovalAgentsEvery currencyYour approval

Open an account. Get money to spend.

Global money. Intelligent growth.

We give you a limit to spend at the shops and services you already use — and an account that works on your month while you get on with it. Dollars, pounds and euros sit beside your Naira, and an assistant handles the running of it, asking you first every single time.

One global account for your money and business. Move across currencies, automate everyday operations and put AI agents to work — with you in control of every important decision.

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Personal · the app in your hand
Salary landed₦920,000 from John Doe Ltd · Naira account
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Move ₦100,000 to your Rent Box?Keeps ₦127.9m liquid · earns 18% p.a.
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Paid Ikeja Electric₦18,400 · token sent by SMS
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Swap $200 → ₦310,000?Rate locked at ₦1,550 for 30 s
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Held a ₦150,000 transferNew payee · unusual hour · needs you
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Received $2,400From a client · USD account
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Swap $200 → £—?Rate locked for 30 s
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Paid the light bill at home₦18,400 · Ikeja Electric
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Keep $1,000 liquid, save the rest?$1,400 → Flexible Box
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Held a £2,000 transferNew payee · needs you
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Eva, the assistant that runs a Pryme accountEvayour assistant
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Business Account

Open an account. Get customers.

Your competitor down the road sells the same thing you sell. The difference is who walks in. We put money in people’s hands that can only be spent in businesses like yours — and then we point them at you.

The Pryme Business home page: three currency balances on one account, the money actions, five agents working and a live stream of what they have done
Business · the page your team signs into
Spaces · Nigeria

We hand the customer the money. It can only be spent with you.

You are not borrowing. You are selling to somebody who already has the money — and that money can only be spent with a business like yours.

The business · Pryme Business
johndoe.mypryme.com · Spaces

Spaces Showing 30 days

Spaces is onshoppers near you can see your shop
Spaces brought you · 30 days ₦2,578,550.00 104 sales from 71 shoppers ▼ 4% on the period before
Where the money came from
91% shoppers who had been in before 9% first visit to your shop
21 of 71 came back more than once Average basket ₦24,793.75 Biggest shopper ₦142,300.00
24 Jul returningnew to you 22 Aug
Money on its way to you confirmed at the counter · on its way to your Naira account
Confirmed at the counter ₦47,150.002 sales today · final the moment they paid
Sales of 23 Aug₦90,9503 sales · confirmed
Sales of 24 Aug₦196,2005 sales · confirmed
Sales of 25 Aug₦47,1502 sales · confirmed
nothing for you to do · it arrives on its own
Lands in your NGN account ₦334,300.0010 sales in flight
The shopper · Pryme app
4:34
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BorrowLoans
SpacesSalary Advance
Spaces credit₦21,450 available
Repay ₦78,550
₦78,550 in use₦100,000 limit
Hold 25% · repay 2 more early to drop to 20%

₦100,000 from day one · agreement v2.1 · 12 Aug · View

Near youCategories 9Your loans 9
🛒Grocery / Retail4 places
🍽Eateries / Restaurants4 places
💊Pharmacies3 places
🎬Movies & Cinema3 places
🚌Transport3 places
💇Spa’s & Saloons3 places
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HomeBoxes CardsYou
Freeto join, nothing monthly. You are in the app the day you switch it on.
You get paidthe sale settles into your Naira account. Nobody to chase.
Zero riskwe carry the credit, whether or not the shopper repays us.
You growfaces that had never been to your shop — and most come back on their own.
The account

One account. Every currency you trade in.

Pryme Business4 currencies · one ledger
Base
₦127,328,879.23NGN · Nigerian Naira
$1,240.00USD · US Dollar
£480.00GBP · Pound Sterling
€310.00EUR · Euro
  • A named Naira account with Solid Allianze MFB — NDIC insured, your business name on it.
  • Real details abroad. A US account number, a UK sort code, an IBAN for the euro area.
  • Every currency has its own statement — regular or certified, with a code anyone can verify.
Swapping · in the app
4:34
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Current account · NGN ₦127,328,879.23
SwapBoth balances move at once, on one ledger
Fill it inAsk Eva
$1 = ₦1,650.00
FromNGN ▾
250,000Available ₦127,328,879.23
ToUSD ▾
151.52after swap $1,391.52
Rate$1 = ₦1,650.00
Fee—
You get$151.52
NowWhen it hits

Eva waits for your rate and asks before she moves anything.

Target rate
$1 =1,585.00₦
Set the watch
Pryme Pay

Take money on your site, or on a checkout of your own.

No card, no OTP, nothing for the buyer to type in. They transfer from the bank app they already use, and the money lands in the same account your agents are running — already matched to the order, already in your books.

Pay from your bank app

We give the buyer a one-time account number. They transfer to it from any bank app or by USSD — no card, no OTP, nothing to type in.

Get the account number
  • Card details are never asked for, so they cannot leak.
  • The account is used once, then it closes.
  • Held with a licensed bank, insured by the NDIC.
Transfer exactly this amount

To this account, from any bank app. We watch it, and the page updates itself.

Send exactly₦26,767.50Copy
BankSolid Allianze MFB
Account number0000 000 000Copy
Account namePRYME / JOHNDOE‑ORD1042
Watching the account — nobody has to confirm anything.
Payment received

₦26,767.50 from GTBank · John D., matched to order ORD‑1042.

OrderORD-1042
Settled intoJohn Doe Trading Ltd · Naira account 0000 000 000
Receiptsent to the buyer
Get your receiptRun it again
Your checkout, your brand.On the site you already have, in your colours, on your own domain — or on a page we host for you.
A link for anything you sell.One price, one buyer, one link — sent on WhatsApp, Instagram or email, and paid the same way.
It lands already reconciled.Matched to the order, receipt issued, and in your books before you have looked at it.
Business Account

A team you did not have to hire.

Five agents come with the account. Each one has a job description, a budget and a ceiling you set. They do the work and bring it to you — nothing leaves the account without your signature.

CS Chief of Staff Runs the week

Knows what is stuck, who is waiting and what you promised — and keeps all three moving.

Booked a meeting with John Doe Foods for Thursday 11:00.
FI Finance Watches the money

Keeps the books as you trade and tells you the moment something does not add up.

Flagged a duplicate — invoice DP‑11908 was already paid in July.
COCompliance Keeps you inside the rules

Holds every filing to its own clock and screens names and payments against your policy — and logs what it refuses.

Screened 412 payments overnight and refused two of them.
SA Sales Chases what is owed

Goes back to the buyers who went quiet, with the receipt already attached.

Recovered ₦410,000 across three overdue invoices.
SU Customer Support Answers your customers

Replies, follows up on what they asked for and hands you only the ones that need you.

Resolved 4 conversations — two deliveries, one refund.
Every agent prepares and proposes. You are the only one who can approve.
Build on Pryme

Our rails, under your product.

Issue a dedicated Naira account number to each of your own customers, collect into it and reconcile against it. The same rails the Business Account runs on, with the licence behind them.

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Pryme Business

One business account. Every currency you trade in.

Dollars, pounds and euros beside a Naira account, on one ledger and one set of books. Five agents come with it and run the account — nothing leaves without your signature.

The Pryme Business home page: Naira, dollar and pound balances on one account, the money actions, five agents working and a live stream of what they have done
Business · the page your team signs into

A team you did not have to hire

Five agents come with the account. Each has a job description, a budget and a ceiling you set. They do the work and bring it to you — they propose, you approve.

CSChief of Staff Runs the week

Knows what is stuck, who is waiting and what you promised, and keeps all three moving.

Booked the quarterly review with your auditor for Thursday.
FIFinance Watches the money

Keeps the books in every currency you hold and flags the moment something does not add up.

Flagged a duplicate — invoice DP‑11908 was already paid in July.
COCompliance Keeps you inside the rules

Holds every filing to its own clock and screens names and payments against your policy — and logs what it refuses.

Screened 412 payments overnight and refused two of them.
SASales Chases what is owed

Goes back to the buyers who went quiet, with the invoice and the receipt already attached.

Recovered $12,400 across three overdue invoices.
SUCustomer Support Answers your customers

Replies, follows up on what they asked for and hands you only the ones that need you.

Resolved 4 conversations — two deliveries, one refund.
Every agent prepares and proposes. You are the only one who can approve.
Open a business account

Ten years, one trunk

The business has changed shape four times and never changed what it was rooted in. Each version was built out of what the last one could not do.

2016E-commerce

An online grocery store, built out of a faulty tab. Selling the food was the easy part — taking the money for it, and moving it, turned out to be the business.

2018OjirehPrime Card

A prepaid card. The first time the company issued rather than resold, and the first time it carried the obligations that come with holding somebody else’s money.

2020Microfinance bank

PrymeSolid Allianze acquired — an existing bank with an existing licence. The perimeter stopped being someone else’s to draw.

2023Multicurrency

More than one currency on one balance, and the rebrand to Pryme. A Nigerian business could hold dollars without holding a second institution.

2026Agentic operations

Accounts that do the work rather than only hold value. Five agents on the account, inside a policy you write — which is where the new mark starts.

Questions

The things people ask us first.

What is Pryme?

Pryme is a financial technology company. It gives people and businesses in Nigeria one account that holds Naira alongside dollars, pounds and euros, and a set of agents that do the running of it — keeping the books, chasing what is owed, answering customers and paying bills. Nothing leaves an account without the owner’s approval.

Can I hold dollars, pounds and euros in a Pryme account?

Yes. A Pryme account holds Naira, US dollars, pounds sterling and euros side by side on one ledger, each with its own account details — a Nigerian account number, a US account number, a UK sort code and an IBAN for the euro area. You can swap between them at a rate you set, and every currency has its own statement.

What is Spaces?

Spaces is available in Nigeria. It gives a shopper money to spend that can only be spent with a participating business. The business is paid into its Naira account whether or not the shopper repays, because Pryme carries the credit. For the business it is free to join, there is nothing monthly, and the customer’s identity is never shown — only a reference and what it is worth.

What do the agents on a Pryme Business Account do?

Five agents come with the account. The Chief of Staff runs the week and keeps what is stuck moving. Finance watches the money and keeps the books as you trade. Compliance keeps the filings on time and screens what moves. Sales chases what you are owed. Customer Support answers your customers and follows up. Each has a job description, a budget and a ceiling you set, and each one proposes rather than acts — nothing leaves the account without your signature.

How does Pryme Pay work?

Pryme Pay takes payments on your own site or on a checkout page you control. The buyer is given a one-time account number and transfers to it from any bank app or by USSD — no card, no OTP, nothing to type in. The money lands in the same account your agents are running, already matched to the order and already in your books.

What are Savings Boxes?

Savings Boxes are separate pots inside a Pryme account, held in Naira. Flexible Boxes can be withdrawn at any time, Fixed Boxes hold to a date, Investment Boxes hold for longer, and Interest-free Boxes earn nothing by design. A business can use them to ring-fence payroll and the tax it withholds, so that money cannot be spent by accident.

Who holds my money, and is it protected?

Pryme is a financial technology company, not a bank. Accounts and deposits are provided by Solid Allianze Microfinance Bank Limited, which is licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria and is a member of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Can I build on Pryme?

Yes. Pryme Rails lets a platform issue a dedicated Naira account number to each of its own customers, collect into it and reconcile against it, over one API — the same rails the Pryme Business Account runs on.

What is Pryme?

Pryme is a financial technology company. It gives you one account that holds US dollars, pounds sterling and euros beside Naira, with an assistant that runs the account for you and asks before anything moves. Accounts are provided in Nigeria today, and further markets open as each licence lands.

Can I open a Pryme account from outside Nigeria?

Accounts are provided in Nigeria today, subject to verification and approval. Foreign-currency balances are held and converted inside that account, so you can hold, receive and swap dollars, pounds and euros wherever you are.

Which currencies can I hold with Pryme?

Naira, US dollars, pounds sterling and euros, side by side on one ledger. Each has its own details — a Nigerian account number, a US account number, a UK sort code and an IBAN for the euro area — and each has its own statement.

How do I send money to Nigeria with Pryme?

Swap at a rate you set rather than the rate of the day, then send to any Pryme username or to a Nigerian bank account. There is no fee to send to another Pryme account.

What does the assistant do?

Eva is the assistant inside the Pryme app. She opens accounts, moves money, saves toward your goals, pays what is due and follows up what is owed to you — and asks you before anything moves.

What is Pryme Rails?

Pryme Rails lets a platform issue a dedicated Naira account number to each of its own customers, collect into it and reconcile against it, over one API — the same rails the Pryme Business Account runs on.

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Fuel subsidy removal: what changed for household bills

From the May 2023 announcement to Dangote's naira gantry price: the dated timeline, and what it did to transport, cooking fuel and food costs.

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Pryme editorialBills desk · 19 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
The short answer

Nigeria's petrol subsidy ended when President Tinubu announced it in his inauguration speech on 29 May 2023, and pricing was declared fully deregulated in October 2024. The NNPC pump price in Abuja went from ₦617 a litre in July 2023 to ₦1,030 in October 2024, and the NBS average retail price stood at ₦1,596.25 in May 2026. Transport fares, generator running costs and the price of goods that move by road all followed.

The petrol subsidy kept the pump price below the cost of importing fuel for decades. Al Jazeera reported that it cost the government about $10bn in 2022. Removing it did not change one bill. It changed the price of the fuel that moves people, food and goods, and that powers the generators many homes and shops run. This article sets out the dated timeline from public reports, then follows the effect through the household budget. Each figure carries its date. Pump prices move often, so treat the older ones as history, not today's price.

The timeline since May 2023

DateWhat happenedSource
29 May 2023President Bola Tinubu ends the petrol subsidy in his inauguration speechAl Jazeera, 18 Jul 2023
June 2023Average daily petrol consumption falls to 48.43 million litres, against a January to May average of 66.9 million (NMDPRA figures)Al Jazeera, 18 Jul 2023
18 Jul 2023NNPC stations raise the price from ₦557 to ₦617 a litreAl Jazeera, 18 Jul 2023
3 Sep 2024NNPC raises Abuja price from ₦617 to ₦897THISDAY, 10 Oct 2024
Sep 2024Dangote refinery begins local petrol productionTHISDAY, 10 Oct 2024
1 Oct 2024Crude sold to Dangote to be settled in nairaTHISDAY, 10 Oct 2024
Oct 2024NNPC ends its exclusive offtake deal with Dangote; the minister says the sector is fully deregulated; Abuja ₦1,030, Lagos ₦998THISDAY, 10 Oct 2024
May 2026NBS average retail petrol price ₦1,596.25 a litre, up 55.31% on May 2025 (₦1,027.76)NBS via Legit.ng, 24 Jun 2026
5 Aug 2026Dangote gantry price ₦1,165; MRS pump price ₦1,210, AP ₦1,220Legit.ng, 6 Aug 2026

Two things stand out. First, the change came in steps rather than in one jump: the July 2023 increase, a pause, then the 2024 increases that ended with full deregulation. Second, since late 2024 prices have moved both ways, because the pump price now follows crude prices, the naira and supply from local refining. THISDAY reported in October 2024 that petrol had risen more than 430% since 29 May 2023. Prices have both risen and fallen since then. See how the Dangote gantry price works.

Transport: the first bill to move

Fares respond to fuel faster than anything else, because drivers and okada riders buy fuel daily. The NBS Transport Fare Watch for February 2026, as reported by the Guardian, put the average intercity bus fare at ₦8,108.81 (down from ₦8,504.39 in January), the average within-city bus fare at ₦1,195.75, and the average okada fare at ₦920.95. Fares also vary by zone. The South-East had the lowest average intra-city fare at ₦1,116.10 and the highest intercity fare at ₦8,507.45.

Commuting is a daily cost, so it adds up fastest. Someone taking two within-city bus trips a day for 22 working days makes 44 trips. At the February 2026 average, that is 44 × ₦1,195.75 = ₦52,613 a month (worked example; your route will differ). There is more on cutting this in budgeting for transport costs.

Generators, cooking fuel and kerosene

Homes with unreliable grid supply felt the change at the generator. A small petrol generator burns between one and two-and-a-half litres an hour depending on size and load, so every ₦100 rise in the litre price adds to a monthly fuel bill measured in hundreds of litres. The worked costs are in how much fuel a generator uses per month.

Cooking fuel was not part of the petrol subsidy, but its price moved too. NBS price watches for 2026 show both cooking gas and household kerosene higher than a year earlier. The causes are the exchange rate, import costs and supply. They overlap with what moves petrol, but they are not the same thing. Kerosene matters most to lower-income homes that never switched to gas; see why cooking gas prices rise.

Food and everyday goods

Most food reaches Nigerian markets by road, and many small producers run on diesel or petrol because grid power is unstable. A News Agency of Nigeria market survey in May 2026 found a bag of sachet water selling for ₦500 to ₦800 in many Lagos areas, up from ₦350 to ₦450 in late 2025. Producers cited nylon, diesel and transport costs. The same pattern repeats along supply chains. Fuel is one cost among several, alongside packaging, imported inputs and levies, so a fall in petrol prices does not lower shelf prices at once.

  • Transport fares: move within days of a pump price change.
  • Generator fuel: moves with the pump price and with how many hours of grid power you get.
  • Cooking gas and kerosene: follow the exchange rate and import supply more than the petrol price.
  • Food: follows fuel with a lag, mixed with other costs.

What to check first in your own budget

  1. List every cost that burns fuel directly: car, generator, okada and bus fares.
  2. Check today's pump price at the stations you actually use. National averages hide wide state gaps: in May 2026 NBS found Edo highest at ₦1,722.91 and Adamawa lowest at ₦1,469.83.
  3. Recalculate generator hours against your electricity band (bands A to E set minimum supply hours).
  4. Rebuild the monthly budget with today's figures rather than last year's; what inflation means for your budget covers the method.

Where Pryme fits

Fuel is usually paid in cash or by transfer at the pump, so a bank app cannot lower it. You can, though, see where the money goes. With a Flexible Savings Box you can set aside a monthly fuel and transport sum in naira, and the Personal Assistant can remind you when a bill is due. It prepares; nothing moves until you approve.

Questions people ask

When was fuel subsidy removed in Nigeria?

President Tinubu announced the end of the petrol subsidy in his inauguration speech on 29 May 2023. Pricing was described as fully deregulated in October 2024, when NNPC ended its exclusive deal to buy petrol from the Dangote refinery.

How much was petrol before and after subsidy removal?

Al Jazeera reported NNPC stations raising the price from ₦557 to ₦617 a litre on 18 July 2023. NNPC's Abuja price reached ₦1,030 in October 2024. NBS put the national average at ₦1,596.25 in May 2026. Check today's price at your station.

Did subsidy removal increase transport fares?

Transport fares rise and fall with the pump price because drivers buy fuel daily. NBS figures for February 2026 put the average within-city bus fare at ₦1,195.75 and the okada fare at ₦920.95.

Is there still fuel subsidy in Nigeria?

The government says the sector is fully deregulated, and market forces set prices, as the petroleum minister said in October 2024. Pump prices now follow crude prices, the naira and refinery supply, so they can fall as well as rise.

Sources

  1. Nigerian petrol prices reach record high after subsidy removal, Al Jazeera (18 Jul 2023) · accessed Oct 2026
  2. Finally, subsidy is gone: NNPC sells petrol for N1,030/litre in Abuja, N998 in Lagos, THISDAY repost (10 Oct 2024) · accessed Oct 2026
  3. NBS petrol price watch May 2026, reported by Legit.ng (24 Jun 2026) · accessed Oct 2026
  4. Dangote cuts petrol price, MRS and AP release new pump prices, Legit.ng (6 Aug 2026) · accessed Oct 2026
  5. Transport fares rise as Abia, Ogun record highest intercity bus costs in February 2026, Guardian Nigeria (1 Apr 2026) · accessed Oct 2026
  6. Rising water prices squeeze Lagos households, News Agency of Nigeria (10 May 2026) · accessed Oct 2026

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