CARTHENAADVISORY

Strategy, management consulting and financial advisory across Nigeria and Africa

Optimise value.Build sustainability.

Carthena Advisory provides economic intelligence and business transformation advisory services that help organisations outperform, scale sustainably and build lasting competitive advantage.

Clients include

Arit of Africa
Flour Mills of Nigeria
GB Foods
GIZ
Gokada
Julius Berger
Kegax Holdings
Konga
NESG
Olaniwun Ajayi
Pade HCM
Precise Financial Systems
Pierrine
QMB hypermart
Sifax Group
Investment One
Unity Bank
Sterling Bank
Central Bank of Nigeria
Elin Air & Aviation
ISN Medical
Our practices

Everything we do sits in four practices

Every service we offer sits in one of these practices, and every engagement is run on the same method.

Transformation Advisory

Strategy, market entry and operations work that turns intent into measurable results.

Economic Intelligence

Market, policy and feasibility evidence for decisions that carry real risk.

Organisational Capability Building

Organisation design, change, talent and training that build the capacity to execute.

Includes open and in-house training programmes.

Capital and Transactions

Capital raising, M&A, valuation and forensic work, from due diligence to close.

Planning team development? Download the Q4 2026 training calendar

Our method · SSI

Strategy breaks in the gaps between belief, design and people

Strategic Synergy Integration is the method behind every practice. It asks leaders and staff the same questions across nine areas, reads where their answers differ rather than averaging them, and names the one gap where the organisation is furthest apart. That gap anchors the work that follows.

How SSI works
Intent
Design
Governance
Belief
Architecture
Named gap
Capability

Illustration: the named gap differs for every organisation.

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