Tango Brook Takes Fuel Management Platform to Five African Markets

Kate Roland The Nigerian technology company says its platform has grown beyond digital fuel payments, combining transaction controls, fleet monitoring and generator intelligence to give businesses greater visibility over energy spending. Nigerian technology company Tango Brook Technologies is expanding its digital fuel-management platform into more African markets, targeting the persistent challenge of fuel leakages, weak expenditure controls and limited visibility into how businesses consume energy. The company announced the expansion at its first-anniversary event in Lagos, where it outlined the progress of its Tango Fuel App and plans to scale its technology beyond Nigeria. The platform, initially launched in Nigeria in September 2025 as a digital fuel-payment solution, has evolved into a broader energy-spend management system, according to the company. Tango Brook said the platform is now being deployed in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe, with its corporate customer base rising to more than 150 organisations. Among the companies listed by Tango Brook as customers are Flour Mills of Nigeria, Seven-Up Bottling Company, LAGRIDE, United Bank for Africa, CardinalStone and ICS Outsourcing. Speaking at the event, Executive Chairman of Tango Brook, Peter Atuma, said the company was established to address the difficulties organisations face in monitoring fuel expenditure and consumption. “Across emerging economies, organisations spend billions on petrol and diesel to power vehicles, generators and operations, yet rely on manual processes that create fraud, leakages and zero visibility,” Atuma said. “Tango Fuel App was founded to change this,” he added. The anniversary event, held at the Lagos Continental Hotel under the theme, “Powering Accountability: The Future of Energy Management in Nigeria,” brought together customers, technology and financial-services partners and other industry stakeholders. Discussions at the event centred on fuel management, fraud prevention, identity, digital payments and the growing role of technology in improving accountability around energy spending. Moving beyond the fuel pump For many businesses, the challenge with fuel management does not end after a transaction is completed. Companies operating large vehicle fleets, generators and other fuel-dependent assets must also determine how much fuel is being consumed, where it is being consumed and whether the reported consumption corresponds with actual business activity. Tango Brook has responded by expanding its product offering beyond its original fuel-card proposition. The company has introduced Tango Fleet Management , a system designed to provide businesses with vehicle tracking, fuel-consumption monitoring, driver-behaviour information and route-efficiency data. It has also developed GenVault , a generator-monitoring system that tracks fuel levels, runtime, consumption, maintenance and equipment performance. According to the company, bringing these capabilities together allows finance and operations teams to connect fuel expenditure with the vehicles, generators and other assets responsible for consuming it. The approach represents a shift in Tango Brook's business model from a digital fuel-payment company towards an energy-technology and intelligence platform. Its stated objective is to combine data generated from fuel transactions, vehicle fleets, generators and connected assets to identify unusual patterns, inefficiencies and potential areas of waste. For businesses, the company argues, such information can provide a more detailed view of operational expenditure than conventional cash-based fuel purchases and manually maintained records. Growth in first year Tango Brook reported strong growth during the eight months through August, with wallet funding increasing 12.4 times and revenue rising 46.7 per cent, based on figures presented by the company. The company also reported that transactions conducted through the app and the number of active transacting cards each increased 3.4 times during the period. Chief Executive Officer of Tango Brook Technologies Nigeria, David Oyo-Ita, said the company's expansion had required substantial investment in its technology infrastructure and partnerships. “We had to rebuild our technology architecture, strengthen critical partnerships, and navigate resource constraints. The market has validated that work,” Oyo-Ita said. He said the company's focus had initially been centred on fuel payments but that discussions with customers exposed broader problems around monitoring energy consumption and managing operational assets. The resulting expansion of the product portfolio, he said, was aimed at giving businesses greater control over both their energy spending and the assets consuming that energy. CCO, AfriGoPay Financial Services Limited, Mr Ugo Abasi; MD, Source Microfinance Bank, Ms Akanimoh Ojo; Chief Technology Officer, Tango Brook Technologies, Mr Dubem Okafor; Board Chairman, Tango Brook, Mr Peter Atuma; MD, Tracking and Monitoring Technology Limited, Mr Pierre Dina; and Non-Executive Director, Tango Brook, Immanuella Mani Money-Oj, during the one-year anniversary celebration of the Tango Fuel App in Lagos, recently Security and African expansion As it expands across borders, Tango Brook is also seeking to strengthen the systems supporting its platform. The company has obtained ISO 27001:2022 certification , an international standard relating to information security management. Tango Brook said the certification forms part of its efforts to strengthen information security and build customer confidence as it enters additional markets. Managing Director, Africa, Obiajulu Wemambu, identified the development of the infrastructure, partnerships and governance needed to operate outside Nigeria as one of the company's major achievements during its first year. The company said it is working to establish local teams and partnerships in its new markets while adapting its technology to different commercial, mobility and energy environments. The expansion comes as businesses across Africa continue to look for ways to control operating costs and improve the management of physical assets. For companies that depend on petrol and diesel to operate fleets, generators and other equipment, linking the purchase of fuel with its eventual consumption can offer businesses a clearer picture of how and where energy expenditure occurs. That is the market Tango Brook is seeking to address as it scales its platform. Focus shifts to intelligence The company's next phase will involve expanding the data and intelligence capabilities of its platform. Tango Brook said its priorities for its second year include greater use of data intelligence and predictive analytics, deeper expansion into new African markets and the development of additional features for small and medium-sized businesses as well as individual users. The company is also seeking to build on the integration of payments, fleet information, generator data and other operational inputs, potentially allowing customers to move from simply recording fuel transactions to analysing consumption patterns and making operational decisions based on those patterns. Atuma said the first year had been focused on proving that the model could work, while the company's next stage would centre on taking the technology to a wider African market. For Tango Brook, the challenge will be to maintain the reliability, security and operational controls required by corporate customers as the platform grows across multiple markets with different business environments and energy needs.