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Improving The Handymen/Artisans Service
An [[Artisan]] according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary is a worker who practices a trade or handicraft, while and [[Handyman]] is a person who does odd jobs.2 :one competent in a variety of small skills or inventive or ingenious in repair or maintenance work.

In Nigeria, the both are used as synonymous words or interchangeably to refer to the same thing. The Handyman/artisan service is carried out by both the educated and none educated citizens in the country. For the educated, after they must have graduated from school, they take a further step of gaining the experience of providing the Handyman/Artisan service and learning the skill by working in organisations or small shops that provide this services. While for the none educated, they work as interns for an agreed number of years and get to learn by watching an experience Handyman/artisan carryout the service or practice the skill after which they open up shops in some other location and provide the same service they would have learnt over the years as interns.

According to in the first paragraph of his article (ARTISANS, REPAIRMEN AND HANDYMEN MAKE UP ANOTHER MARKET RIPE FOR A DISRUPTION), anyone who has dealt with an artisan or handyman in Nigeria, can testify to how unpleasant the experience is. From broken promises or purchasing substandard parts, to causing further damage, the list goes on. The story goes something like this: A while ago, the air conditioning (AC) unit in my bedroom went bad, and I didn’t bother fixing it because I couldn’t picture having to deal with another repairman

But this perception has changed as the services of Handymen/artisans are being improved on. Some few organisations in Nigeria like artisanOga and some others Provide the services of handymen/artisans online. They collect the details of these artisans/handymen at different locations and add them to their platform. They improve the skills of the artisans/handymen in their platform by training them in the use of modern tools to make their jobs easier and also on etiquette and customer relation. These sites also provide jobs for the artisans/handymen on their platform.

The government of Nigeria and organisations like artisanOga are already doing so much in improving the quality of services artisans/handymen are providing, but more can still be done in improving the artisan/handyman trade in Nigeria.