They started arresting uber and bolt drivers in Abuja since last month.
The the Agency they are using is the notorious AEPB task force. Abuja environmental protection board.
They will even order uber in town and arrest them when they arrive for pick up.
The country will forever remain this way if all we can do is complain online.

This is fake news.
Autojosh is known for fake news, same way he described Emirates as 'Fly Emirates Airline.

This news is not from FAAN

Is Abuja not Lagos

Seriously

Nigerians and fake news

They can pass through bt they can’t pick people up at the airport. That’s fair enough to protect the air cabs and that’s how it shud be. U can pick ur Uber outside the airport premises or cover area.

Uber bolt de spoil business for airport taximen hahaha

Lagos Airport. Is that one an airport? Considering the amount of international and domestic flights out of that place alone, the airport should be an icon of Nigeria. But no the airport is so useless. If you want to see what airport looks like, you can I mean ones that meet world standards then go to Frankfurt Airport or the one in Seoul South Korea or even Minnesota Airport or Heathrow. That airport in Lagos is so useless and backward. Airport security collect bribe openly. My question as always been that considering all the money that airport makes from both domestic and international carriers and higr airport traffic in that airport wher does all money go to? Your guess is as good as mine. Not only uber but the airport itself should be banned. What a sensible agency should have done was to have a meeting with all the ride sharing agencies and look for the way forward. For example many U. S airports now require ride sharing services to pick up and drop off at designated areas and not anywhere. It's called curb side management.

As much as we love Uber's cheap prices, it is actually very unfair competition.

Uber rides are worryingly cheap and despite that, the drivers are still charged a commission. It doesn't add up.

It only adds up when you take a look look at Uber's balance sheet and see that it makes losses of up to $800m in some quarters. That means it is simply surviving off investors' funds. It has a very high burn rate. I don't see how it can ever be profitable. Taxi drivers, not just in Nigeria but in other parts of the world are not really competing against another taxi operator but against Uber's financier's funds. Taxi rides needs to be priced at a rate they can make money.

I feel at the end of the day, ride-hailing apps should steer clear of running a cab service, but instead act as an intermediary linking taxis with customers and in exchange, receive a commission or earn money from advertising.

My $800m loss is even conservative when you read the article in the link below. It talks about a staggering $5.2bn loss in a quarter

https://www.businessinsider.com/where-uber-spends-its-money-lost-5-billion-second-quarter-2019-8?IR=T

That's not fair at all, I believe there should be equal opportunities for all to do their business freely, is not left for the passengers to choose which of the drivers to use.

SaintHilary:
Why can't the Airport Taxi's just swallow their pride and sign up for Taxify or Uber

With which vehicle...the rickety ones they currently own...

Hmmm

RamseyBolton:


I guess its left for you to make a deal with the taxify person. At the end, you cannot beat technology.

Are you sure? FAAN agents will start ordering rides to the airport to make them part with 10k when they arrive to pick up the passenger.

With time, the riders will not honor trips to the airport, being unsure if its a real passenger or a fan agent.

ThinkWISELY:


Durable?

Yes.

Welcome back, AutoReportNG.
I see new touches to your brand.

Abdul00:
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Na your phone go electrocute you if you don't desist from your evil ways.

Nigerians must protest the ban.

Arsenella007:
FANN denies it

u are right.

Devops:
Stupid.
The local taXi drivers should adjust,adapt and improvish. This is the 21st century for God's sake. You can't remain behind when the world is moving in the speed of light in technological advancement.
The local taxi drivers should upgrade or move to a more local area.
This is an airport for God's sake.
That's why we should always learn everyday, keep up with new technologies. Because not learning and upgrading is the smoking of the 21st century.

When you tell them to get rid of Tinubu, people call it hate. The local taxi guys are NURTW members,do not forget. If I will suggest anything, it is for these e-hailers to leave Nigeria and their problem.

Abdul00:
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Da nsika

BANZA

Shit hole country.

If you are coming to Nigeria, just trek little distance from the airport and call your bolt. If you are arriving the airport tell your bolt to drop your near the airport. Case close

Are the Uber drivers not Nigerians?

this country trying to render it citizen jobless

2016. I took taxi from airport to first avenue for 2k

Adanairaland:
Whaaaaaaat?!

Oh no!

That's was how I asked one how much from the Airport to Festac..
Oga told me 7,000.

"Sir, na only me oo I no carry Airplane"

It’s like the same madness that is afflicting LAX in Los Angeles, has afflicted FAAN. The LAX authorities also banned Uber and Lyft from picking up/dropping off passengers from the curbside of the terminals.

AutoReportNG:

https://www.autoreportng.com/2019/12/faan-bans-uber-taxify-and-other-taxis-from-lagos-airport-place-heavy-fine-on-defaulters.html

chai!! I think my mum is to blame for giving birth to me in this death uncivilized,myopic,country that hate's innovation and fustrate every effort of the common masses,government do not tolerate private investors,always scared there will take meat out of their mind!!

Very useless awkward people Manning the nation affairs.Anyway banning and unbanning the Uber and tastfy would still pick their passengers (codedly) Just booked your Uber man ,tell him your expected arrival time,let him come and wait for you..abi my friend and
Family no fit come pick me for airport again

Abdul00:
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Aboki, call your family and invest your lives savings naa. Abi you do not want ×3 money?
Wonders will never end, after your brother is taking Nigeria back to the 14th century you sef want to come and scam us ontop
Aboki doing pyramid scheme? SMH

Hmmm...interesting. I am against Uber or any other foreign giant corporation reaching into Nigeria.... why must we allow then to control us? But then... the Airport Taxi service need to be regulated. Why can't they be made to operate on a similar Uber platform? Why can't the fares be regulated?.... and drivers meet certain requirements? Besides not having considered these.... there is the issue of security.... why wouldn't kidnappers... robbers... killers pose as local drivers? The arriving passenger now has no option but to take the once chance risk. The decisions these people make I wonder what they be smoking........or what they need to be smoking.

golddust6000:
2016. I took taxi from airport to first avenue for 2k

Okay that's 2016.

We talking about August 2019

Jesus! This is the most insensitive move EVER! Moving to the airport and back with those cab-hailing guys makes more sense than those rickety taxis with no AC FFS! What is wrong with us as a country??