I'm Impressed to say the least but the truth is, it's not enough to say we want a new indigenous app if reasons behind it is not pure and true . Some of this drivers are crooks, I've always wanted to join this e hailing business but when I see what these drivers do to car owners, I weep, they'll go offline and do their business then when car owners complain they'll blame Uber and taxify. I just hope the so called new indigenous app will put a proper check in place to help car owners get their money too or are the drivers pushing for it because they've seen a proper means of exploiting their masters

wwwihy:
Nigeria finally ditching foreign imperialists.

But some miscreants are having inferiority complex

imperialism only has to do with foreign governments not foreign private entities. The average nigerian only wants money and nothing else. Uber and bolt are excellent and I doubt a local company will be able to beat them because all the local company wants is money without concern for quality; soon lack of maintenance culture will eat them up.

Make una come pursue me comot for bolt na ...mumu people.....
Make dat president talk how much be em own cut for the commission... nonsense..

quentin06:


Why do we need middlemen to hail a cab?
I prefer the idea of a locally made app, can't pin my hopes on foreign apps owned by foreigners who pay no tax to the local govt.

is your concern hailing a cab through a middle man or that it is a foreign enterprise? The locally made app would also be acting as a middle man for the service. If at all your assumption of the foreigners not paying tax, then it isnt their fault but the nigerian system that has made it so

wwwihy:
Nigeria finally ditching foreign imperialists.

But some miscreants are having inferiority complex

Simply because they are asking a question you've refuse to ask?

nwigwemark:
From the write up I can understand that the drivers are only interested in Uber and Taxify increasing the transportation fares so that they will get more money.

We are always selfish and I am very sure that this will fail from ab initio because as they leave the platform of Über and Taxify, more drivers will definitely get onboard and I am 10000% sure that the so called local app can never compete with the established companies

Thank you very much. I am a driver on the Bolt/Taxify app. Most of my colleagues are selfish and greedy. With the current fare and 20% commission we still make 40k every week aside the car delivery and other expenses

I am Bolt/Taxify driver. What I see from my colleagues is greed and selfishness. With the current fare and 20% commission, we still make atleast 40k weekly aside the car delivery and other expenses. Just bcus Bolt and Uber didn't increase the fare to hurt riders that's why they are crying and happy for a new app that they don't know how those ones will work out. The greedy drivers won't tell you about the 13k weekly bonuses and 3k Saturday and Sunday bonuses.

unmask:
Hopefully the new apps work. We had one in PH before Bolt came in. Was never able to successfully take one trip.

Pamdrive was a joke
Poor mgt

Rates are so poor these days I dash drivers extra when I use user.. cause its not easy

wonder233:
As a private car owner driving on those foreign platforms, I say this is a most welcome development.
For those expressing fear and mentioning DStv, your fears are unfounded, this is just an app, it doesn't require the same infrastructure that cable tv requires. The key things we've been demanding: a union, passenger profiling, reduced commission, competitive fares and a human faced customer service for drivers. They conveniently ignored.

...all of these you have said are just benefiting the drivers and they do not aim to satisfy consumers...and you will need a big spending investor who is willing to face the risks of going toe to toe against Bolt/Uber...as it stands Bolt/Uber provide services that benefit the consumers and I can imagine what the cost of the indigenous apps would be to their customers...Uber/Bolt will ultimately knock the competition out of business because they aim at boosting consumer experience at affordable fares. The agitation of the so called union is from the competitive fares of Uber/Bolt compared to the regular cabs and it seems Uber/Bolt is pricing the regular cabs out of business and they are revolting like kids...however, I think getting customer profiles is quite important for security reasons.

optm:
is your concern hailing a cab through a middle man or that it is a foreign enterprise? The locally made app would also be acting as a middle man for the service. If at all your assumption of the foreigners not paying tax, then it isnt their fault but the nigerian system that has made it so

Didn't say all foreigners don't pay tax.
Have you been to Lagos lately? Do you know how difficult it is to commute if you don't own a vehicle, keke , bikes banned, buses are not enough, think the LGSG lacks focus on transport matters.

mmsen:


Because sadly many taxi drivers are dishonest (all over the world) and cannot give clear honest pricing. If they had working meters that would be one thing but even that is beyond many of them, especially in Nigeria. Hence we have third party apps that offer clarity when it comes to pricing and mode of payment.

Taxi cab drivers are the same allover, before you judge them consider the hazards they face from police, lastma, thugs, vehicle owners, passengers, fuel and maintenance.
How does a business model created by individuals in another country who know nothing of our transport system address this?
We need local solutions to our local problems, copy n paste won't work.

They want to get another hurry hurry independent.
Why dropping the two at the same time, why not drop one and set competition between one old app and on new one and see how the new one compete favourably with the old one before finally dropping the last of the old ones?

I take it that you are a consumer and not an agent of uber/Bolt. Now if you're just a customer, then you should be happy for more competition entering into the field as this can only be to your advantage. We all know how Glo forced others to adopt per second billing at a time they all swore it was impossible. Even though today most people still use Airtel and MTN, the presence of Glo and 9mobile (both indigenous companies) is what is making these foreign guys not rip you apart. So, I'm surprised when I read comments such as yours opposing and denigrating...is it a case of Stockholm syndrome? Competition that will force down prices for you, you are opposing it. Na wa o

efficiencie:


...all of these you have said are just benefiting the drivers and they do not aim to satisfy consumers...and you will need a big spending investor who is willing to face the risks of going toe to toe against Bolt/Uber...as it stands Bolt/Uber provide services that benefit the consumers and I can imagine what the cost of the indigenous apps would be to their customers...Uber/Bolt will ultimately knock the competition out of business because they aim at boosting consumer experience at affordable fares. The agitation of the so called union is from the competitive fares of Uber/Bolt compared to the regular cabs and it seems Uber/Bolt is pricing the regular cabs out of business and they are revolting like kids...however, I think getting customer profiles is quite important for security reasons.

I will support anything Indigenous

I am also a Bolt driver. Stop misleading the public: the bonuses are not automatic, you have to complete a stringent number of conditions to earn them, 55 rides, 90% acceptance and completion rates, etc. By the time you work like Jacky to meet those conditions, you have worked yourself to the ground and your car must develop one major fault that will take all the money and more. Then because you don't want to default on the acceptance rate, you can't reject rides even your instincts tells you is dangerous cos no matter what reason you give for rejecting a ride your activity rating dips and you get threatened with permenant deactivation. They are so eager to please customers and treat you like disposable diapers because they know people like you will take anything.
How many times have you gone on long trips with numerous passenger delays and at the end of the day the passenger is charged a paltry fee? Is your self-esteem that low? You don't think you deserve anything? How many times have passengers themselves told you they don't agree with what they were charged that it was too small and even dashed you out of pity? How about proper passenger profiling nko? We've been appealing for this since. You still see a request no proper name just "Don X" "Miss K". How many drivers have lost their lives or their cars? They dangle bonus with strict conditions to you, you're coming here to spew stuff. As a driver, increased competition is to your advantage, you can decide the best company to work for and they will all be eager to give you the best working conditions. So stop asslicking

Kalubolt:
I am Bolt/Taxify driver. What I see from my colleagues is greed and selfishness. With the current fare and 20% commission, we still make atleast 40k weekly aside the car delivery and other expenses. Just bcus Bolt and Uber didn't increase the fare to hurt riders that's why they are crying and happy for a new app that they don't know how those ones will work out. The greedy drivers won't tell you about the 13k weekly bonuses and 3k Saturday and Sunday bonuses.

Nigerians must understand this... INDIGENOUS (LOCAL) CONTENT IS KEY IN ANY STATE THAT SEEKS TO RISE TO THE TOP

OUR LOVE FOR "FOREIGN" NEEDS TO END

Nice move

wonder233:
As a private car owner driving on those foreign platforms, I say this is a most welcome development.
For those expressing fear and mentioning DStv, your fears are unfounded, this is just an app, it doesn't require the same infrastructure that cable tv requires. The key things we've been demanding: a union, passenger profiling, reduced commission, competitive fares and a human faced customer service for drivers. They conveniently ignored.

Why do you need a union? To exploit customers abi?

To create new MC Oluomos?

You drivers are very greedy and these measures will only lead to increased fares for riders. Thankfully, you guys will not be able to force drivers from Bolt or Uber and the riders will remain there. Conclusion: the new apps will fail

wwwihy:
Nigeria finally ditching foreign imperialists.

But some miscreants are having inferiority complex

It’s just an app, bro. Not a battleground. Na you get inferiority complex to be looking at demons everywhere.


This thing no even get anything to do with foreign owned vs indigenous sef. Power brokers are chasing Uber and Bolt out of the market to install apps they have personal stakes in.

People are cashing out and leaving the broke l, ignorant people to be arguing about patriotism

Dem Dey laugh people like you for Ikoyi club.

wonder233:
I take it that you are a consumer and not an agent of uber/Bolt. Now if you're just a customer, then you should be happy for more competition entering into the field as this can only be to your advantage. We all know how Glo forced others to adopt per second billing at a time they all swore it was impossible. Even though today most people still use Airtel and MTN, the presence of Glo and 9mobile (both indigenous companies) is what is making these foreign guys not rip you apart. So, I'm surprised when I read comments such as yours opposing and denigrating...is it a case of Stockholm syndrome? Competition that will force down prices for you, you are opposing it. Na wa o

Nope. This would INCREASE prices not force down prices. This new app is being pushed by a drivers' union. What is the major purpose of such unions? Price fixing. How can you have union and competition in the same sentence? There is no plan for competition here, rather it is an attempt to push prices up so that drivers' can unduly earn more

Competition can never increase prices, its the opposite. As for the union, even workers in sectors with stiff competition belong to unions food, beverage, tobacco, FMCG etc all have unions. Unions don't increase prices, only serves to protect interests of members. Let me give you just two examples: many drivers have been killed in the line of work and the app companies couldn't even help the police with investigations not because they were unwilling but because they didn't properly profile and vet users of their platform. Secondly countless times, the app stops reading and a passenger is charged a ridiculously low fare. No customer service for the driver only for the customer. You can oppose this, but know that a rider today could be a driver tomorrow

einsteine:


Nope. This would INCREASE prices not force down prices. This new app is being pushed by a drivers' union. What is the major purpose of such unions? Price fixing. How can you have union and competition in the same sentence? There is no plan for competition here, rather it is an attempt to push prices up so that drivers' can unduly earn more

Same Ikoyi club the foreign Mr Smiths and Mr Greens are also wining and dining with their local business counterparts? Bro what concerns me as a driver is simply the platform that offers me the best price and conditions of service. Monopoly or duopoly can't give me that. Only a market with multiple players can guarantee that. Same for you a customer, the more platforms, the better for you to choose from.

texazzpete:


It’s just an app, bro. Not a battleground. Na you get inferiority complex to be looking at demons everywhere.


This thing no even get anything to do with foreign owned vs indigenous sef. Power brokers are chasing Uber and Bolt out of the market to install apps they have personal stakes in.

People are cashing out and leaving the broke l, ignorant people to be arguing about patriotism

Dem Dey laugh people like you for Ikoyi club.

quentin06:

Didn't say all foreigners don't pay tax.
Have you been to Lagos lately? Do you know how difficult it is to commute if you don't own a vehicle, keke , bikes banned, buses are not enough, think the LGSG lacks focus on transport matters.

i think this is a different issue entirely. Yes the govt isn't doing enough as regards transportation system and the yellow buses drivers are exploiting commuters with their high fare price and indescriminate increase at every slight opportunity

There is no MC Oluomo scenario here. I own my car, its a private car, unmarked. Nobody can ever stop me and say him and I are in a union. So, its not the MC Oluomo type of union, this is just a voluntary coming together by various private individuals for the purpose of getting better service conditions. Currently, uber charges 25percent commission, bolt 20percent. They could charge 15 or even 10percent and still make humongous profits while the driver earns a bit more and the customer fare isn't increased. Then, they could address some other concerns like proper passenger profiling. Abroad, both the passenger and driver are properly profiled for each's safety, but in Nigeria, only the driver is properly profiled for the passenger's safety and not vice versa. You know how many drivers have been killed, robbed, etc? When police asks the ehailing company for the passenger's profile, all they registered was "Don X", "Mhiz K", etc.

einsteine:


Nope. This would INCREASE prices not force down prices. This new app is being pushed by a drivers' union. What is the major purpose of such unions? Price fixing. How can you have union and competition in the same sentence? There is no plan for competition here, rather it is an attempt to push prices up so that drivers' can unduly earn more

sapientia:
Can they handle it?

Its not about ditching and shouting indigenous company

They should not cause hardship for Lagosians with lack of planning

To develop an app is very easy until you have to handle a lot of requests

Well, i wish the company well if its not a one man business

It is an agenda. e go soon clear for their mind.

kenex4ever:
Greatest news I have heard in a long time.


It's a shame that we have programmers and IT gurus but keep relying on external for the simplest apps.

how many indigenous things has worked effectively?

HEAVEN4444:
i am not dropping my debit card ddetails for an indigenous app company

the driver better take cash

How about indigenous bet companies and indigenous e commerce companies?

DrinkWater10:

How about indigenous bet companies and indigenous e commerce companies?

strictly cash. i have seen how easy it is to violate your bank account in nigeria. in fact the old school way is the best. an account with no online capabilities. you go into the bank and sign yourself befoore they give you the money