When Zipline first entered Nigeria in 2022, the company’s operations looked like another ambitious health-tech pilot: drones delivering vaccines and medical supplies across a handful of underserved states.
Four years later, the company says it is preparing for something much bigger — a national logistics infrastructure play that could eventually reach half of Nigeria’s population.
Anthonio Pinheiro, Zipline’s newly appointed Nigeria Country Director, disclosed in a virtual interview with TechCabal on Wednesday that the company plans to build 12 additional distribution centres across Nigeria, expanding its network from three operational hubs to 15 facilities nationwide.
The expansion, he said, is designed to connect up to 20,000 health facilities and provide access to healthcare commodities for nearly 100 million Nigerians by 2028.
“Right now, with the three states we operate in — Kaduna, Cross River and Bayelsa — we are serving over 1,300 health facilities and about six million people,” Pinheiro said.
