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SABI has launched a service backed by over 300,000 real Nigerians that helps artists, creators and businesses grow on social media almost instantly.
Imagine waking up tomorrow with 300,000 people watching your TikTok video, using your sound, or following your page, not bots, not fake accounts, but real Nigerians who genuinely carried out those actions.
That is the core promise of SABI, a new Nigerian platform that its founder says has created something the internet has never seen before.
SABI was built by Olusehinde Elijah Kolawole, a Nigerian marketer who has spent over fifteen years helping brands and public figures grow on social media.
After more than a decade in the industry, he says he noticed the same problem repeating itself across every client he worked with: musicians needed listeners, creators needed audiences, businesses needed attention, and nothing organised that supply in a reliable, scalable way.
His solution was to build what he calls a Social Infrastructure, a standing network of over 300,000 Nigerians who have willingly signed up to perform digital actions on platforms like Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Spotify and more.
The difference between SABI and what many might associate with social media growth services is significant.
Older methods relied on bots, automated programs that mimicked human activity.
Platforms like Instagram and TikTok have become highly effective at detecting and removing these fake accounts, meaning most growth purchased through such services eventually evaporates. SABI’s participants are real people with real phones, real accounts and real usage histories.
There is nothing for a platform to detect.
For a Nigerian musician, for example, SABI can coordinate hundreds of thousands of real listeners to stream a new song on Spotify or Audiomack, save it to their libraries, and even adopt it as a TikTok sound, one of the most powerful signals that pushes a song toward trending.
For a new business, SABI can deliver genuine five-star Google reviews, real app installs, and authentic social media engagement from day one.
The platform covers an extensive list of services across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Facebook, Spotify, Apple Music, Audiomack, Boomplay, Twitch, Telegram, WhatsApp Channels, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit and Snapchat.
It also supports voting in online contests, ratings, petition signatures and hashtag campaigns.
Kolawole says the speed of impact is one of SABI’s most important qualities.
Because the network already exists and is standing by, orders can be executed almost immediately, collapsing timelines that would otherwise take months or years.
“What used to take years can happen in a day,” the platform’s promotional material states.
