₦airaland Forum

Good evening Nairalanders.

This post is to formally notify the general public, riders, and our fellow drivers about the proposed industrial action by e-hailing drivers across Lagos State starting tomorrow, Monday.

If you try to order a ride tomorrow and see massive surges, long wait times, or zero available cars, please understand that we are not doing this to punish riders. We are doing this because the e-hailing business in Nigeria has become a death trap for drivers, and we can no longer afford to subsidize rides with our own blood, sweat, and vehicle engines.

Here is the straightforward truth about why we are shutting down the apps:

1. Crippling Fares vs. Skyrocketing PMS Prices
We all know the current reality of buying fuel in Lagos today. The cost of PMS has multiplied, yet platforms like Bolt, Uber, and inDrive are still forcing drivers to accept base fares that do not even cover the fuel burnt during the trip—let alone vehicle maintenance, engine oil, or the driver's profit. We are essentially working just to give our earnings directly to the filling stations.

2. Extortionate Commissions and "Double Taxation"
Despite the economic hardship, these platforms are aggressively dipping into our pockets.

Many platforms are taking up to 25% - 35% or more in total deductions from our earnings.
We are dealing with double taxation, where VAT is deducted on top of already high commission rates.
By the time the app takes its cut, the government takes its tax, and we buy fuel, the driver goes home empty-handed.

3. Zero Security and Poor Rider Verification
Drivers are being robbed, attacked, and sometimes killed because these apps refuse to implement strict KYC (Know Your Customer) policies for riders. A passenger can create a new account with a fake name and an unregistered SIM card, order a ride to a dark area, and ambush a driver. The unions, including the Amalgamated Union of App-based Transporters of Nigeria (AUATON), have repeatedly demanded that apps link rider profiles to their NIN for our safety, but the platforms continue to prioritize their volume of riders over our lives.

Our Demands Before We Resume Operations
We are calling on all app companies to immediately implement the following:

Stop charging commission per ride and implement a subscription-based model that drivers pay daily.

An upward review of minimum fares to reflect the current pump price of petrol and extreme inflation.

Mandatory NIN verification for every single rider requesting a trip.

Complete transparency on deductions and an end to the double taxation structure.

### To Our Fellow Drivers
Do not be a saboteur tomorrow. If you go online to chase a surge while the rest of us are fighting for your future, you are only destroying your own hustle in the long run. Let us stand united. Turn off your apps. Park your cars. Let the platforms feel the heat.

To The Riders
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this will cause you on a Monday morning. Please make alternative transport arrangements. We are fighting for a system where we can afford to maintain our cars, keep you safe, and actually feed our families.

Solidarity forever! ✊🏾🚗 Please share this across all and social media.

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Metrix147:
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It depends

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The man cigarette don reason the pepper soup finish

Can a toilet cleaner drive Prado jeep with police estate

Mtchew

Someone beat you, cheat on you, abuse drugs abuse you physically and emotionally but your first statement is my husband is a good man. Abeg maybe you should help my with the definition of good man.

You can't help a person that doesn't need help

I can't wait to see the tokunbo (London used) version land in Nigeria

You were taken to a hospital by your aid and driver, no family member. Both of them can't cough out 80,000 deposit.

You have failed as a man, failed as human and failed as a living thing.

None of your relatives was near you when you fall sick

The hospital that have been treating you and your family don't trust you

Your immediate staff can't pay the needed deposit, either because they don't trust you to reimburse them or they don't have because you don't pay them well

Now you're blaming hospital that are running their business

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Anything wey dem talk say him do, him do am. Nonsense

Did I just see wired microphone

Terrible concept a well crafted CR7 would've been better

As a man hustle and make yourself something, would she have emblazoned Ronaldo on her dress if he was a Keke driver from one village in Portugal?

Nigeria my country, you report a missing child to close case 10k

Why should I pay for rice?

I'll arrest the rice seller to produce the men that kidnap my son. Why release 2bags of rice worth almost 200k to me just because I left my child with you. Is it not dangerous you leave your child in my shop when i don't know you. What happen to go and bring money before you carry goods out of my shop the greedy bastard was in a hurry to sell an overpriced commodity. mad people everywhere

He's starting from the gutter

I have given my life to christ to sin de very expensive this days

Winterhaven:
Men love cheating on their wives, but they go crazy when their wives cheat on them. They don't know karma is a bitch

Lame

A decision they will surely regret

Dodo5:
This kind of thing can't happen in my country

It can happen. They will reject your resignation and sack you after. it has happened before

LEARNPYTHON:
With the economic hardship in the country we can only expect cases like this to become more rampant
The poster above me has proffered some good solutions


I TEACH PYTHON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE 👇

Is python programming still profitable this days

You now have a job time for restitution

I always believe in this mantra "if you want anything done well do it yourself ".

God forbid I marry a woman that doesn't know how to manage money prudently, but even if I do, I'll give her money to buy things needed. if she doesn't, I'll go and buy the basic essential items any other stuff she ask no concern me