When I told Ezekiel, my team Lead that prior to now, I’d never ever used a Taxify or Uber to shuttle around Lagos, he probably thought I was faffing. “Shame on you, Richard, shame on you”, I hear them say in my head �. A Tech startup founder that has never ventured the preferred tech solution to comfortable mobility for Nigerian millennials.

Well all that changed yesterday and I owe it in part to the heavy rain that fell.

The rain was a bastard that Friday (as usual) and it halted my almost regular late night waka home to Ipaja from office at around 8pm.

Oh yes! Let’s not also forget the generous donation of Ezekiel who was kind enough to dash me his promo bonus (but if memory serves me right, it was my own first time rider bonus of N2,500 that deserved the accolades).

Either way, Mr.Eziekiel put me up to it, so he gets some too.

Back to the story, so instead of flying a Danfo as usual, I ordered a ride to Maryland Mall (apparently, anywhere nearer my route was going to cost me at least 1k extra, and being my first time using Taxify, I was determined to spend not a dime of mine �.)

It was a white Toyota Corolla driven by one Mr. Ogunleye. For a second there I almost contemplated whether it would seem rude to sit at the “Oga’s” seat but WTF was I thinking? I owned this sh*t right now!

As far as I was concerned, I owned this dude’s car as far as I had money running for my ride...READ MORE