₦airaland Forum

shollywendy1:
Please is international driver's license issued in lagos? Please a response. Thsnks

Yes. Check this out.
https://naijauto.com/safe-driving/how-to-apply-for-international-drivers-license-nigeria-1402

Buynowautos:
James Bond driving come into play

Lionel Messi driving

igwedehxy:
Hello my people.
Abeg my insurance company said i cant do comprehensive insurance on my car because i am using it for ride sharing(uber/taxify). How true is this?

They even said if i lie that my claims wont be honoured when they discover it. My people make una advise me o

Story of life. Come let me get discounted insurance that works great for ride share for you.

FAMILYJA:
Any sane Nigerian should stay neutral as far as the whole drama is concerned. Only God knows the truth. So do not support or stand against.

Pastor Biodun gave him 1m to start his business.

anonymous1759:
Trump didn't bother to see osibanjo he sent his vice but if it's Mike pompey or any top delegates visits Nigeria our president will welcome him that's a shame and inferiority complex at it's peak.

You should know how this works by now. Basing your conclusion on a false premise will render the conclusion wrong.
Osinbajo is VP and will be welcomed by VP. If he were AP he would be welcomed by Trump.

Buynowautos:
Bads roads should be considered in the cost of trips.

Point. Thanks

MoonlightDrive:
There is the FOI... Freedom of Information Act.
All we are saying is that uber should give us FOD.... Freedom of Destination
We should not be limited to only 2 destination choice within a day.

LOL @ FOD

151487made:
Japa activation! Baba quickly change am make boys no come adultnap am.

Kidnap Julian. Lol.
Person we him bodyguards dey do flanking whenever he park him car like say him na Putin. We never even talk of him mopol squad.
You need to see how him dey roll.

izzou:
At bolded

Is it just about earning? Or generally?

I'd have loved them to look into issues concerning safety

Safety of drivers

Generally. Thanks for replying.

Caleb17:
The fear of EFCC is the beginning of wisdom. EFCC can't wait to quiz the billionaire if his identity is revealed. But who is this person that the whole crowd couldn't see his face?

For legally spending your money? That's not what they do.

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Mjosh1000:
Last week I was at yaba I set destination to my house around 3pm cos I was not felling to well, suddenly request enter rider called asap

Rider: hello I am going to sango ota 5 drivers rejected can you go
Me: inside my mind ,
Me reply rider: sir sango ota ha that place is a no no but I will go sha
Rider: okay where are you now
Me: few blocks from you sir
Got there picked rider.
Baba entered me greeted, baba just say thank you oya let's go.
I started the trip and asked baba is it sango ota under bridge, baba said I should take him to AIT road kola.
Me inside my mind
Got to destination fair was 2700 baba give me 4k
I just drive to abule egba go house go sleep
Ystday, on Sunday night around 8pm I got a call

Baba: my son shebi nah u bring me come AIT road on Friday
Me: yes sir
Baba: do you stay around
Me: yes sir
Baba: u will come to that place and take me to apapa to and fro for 5days
Me:
Baba: how much will u take
Me: 100k sir
Baba: ole ni e oo
Me: sir how much will u offer sir
Baba start story how e get 5cars but he just tired of driving I should take 50k
Me:
Baba: omo mi please joor wa dagba
Me: okay sir
Day 1 AIT road to apapa me I no know say baba nah assistant controller general Nigerian customs,
From one way to brt lane to every where I just dey cruise got bk yesterday baba gave me 12k say 2k is for feeding
Day 2 nah apapa I dey like dis dey chill
I just want to say thank you to all d 5 drivers DAT rejected d trip god bless your hustle for me dis week nah flexing I dey sat & maybe Sunday I hustle uber or taxify.

Lol. This post sweet me.

Hello everyone, I'm writing a post on what ride share companies should do better (in case they don't know).
If you have an opinion on the matter please comment as a reply to this post.
What changes would you like to see?
For instance, what do you think they should do in order for drivers to earn more? That sort of thing.
I appreciate your input in advance.
Thanks guys.

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RiyaGoddess:
Lols op just tell us he is looking for his own Regina to trend. See his Ete...

See your idi

tojahh:
My Oga thanks for this explanation... Even my ancestors understand am. God bless

Lol. E obvious say dem get sense.

nazablossom:
Straight to the promise land. The man has taken the baton from Regina and Ned

He is a good guy.

tojahh:
Boss them... Abeg wetin be surge for this hustle.

As I no be boss but I know d answer make I tell you.
Na earning multiplier based on when demand for drivers pass availability for any certain area. Based on say driver no too plenty for the area, Uber go give surge make drivers take go that area go day pick up client we need ride. If you see 1.5 surge, e mean say dem go multiply your earnings times 1.5. So trip of normally 1k fit turn to 1k5 under surge.

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Lalasticlala

He is known as The King of Luxury.

Tyche:
You can be of help. Where are you based at the moment?

Lagos. How so?

Tyche:
Found this while reaching a project on ehailing. Hope someone will find it useful

https://www.reddit.com/r/uberdrivers/comments/2tzjk6/i_started_driving_for_uber_today_and_came_up_with/

Nice. What project.

Epphy:
Bad...sorry bra...I thought you had plans to get your dues. Uber has turned to something else in the past one year or so.

I didn't want to be running all over social media.

Epphy:
@ Taxiappguy, he had a similar issue with them. I hope he will comment

I dashed them the money.

Lalasticlala

How to start a rideshare/on-demand business in Nigeria

Ridesharing simply means sharing your car with someone who is going your way to get them to their destination. In recent times, ridesharing has been enabled and popularised with the use of technology. Technologies such as Android and iOS, Google Maps, GPS etc are making rideshare more convenient than ever.

In fact, from a cursory perspective, ridesharing appears to currently be one of the fastest growing uses of technology in the world and companies like Uber, Bolt (formerly Taxify) and Lyft have been reaping huge rewards from being the forerunners of this wonderful technology-enhanced venture.

For instance Uber is available in 65 countries and more than 600 cities. 14 million Uber trips are completed each day and well over 10 billion trips have been completed worldwide. In 2018, Uber revenue came to over a whooping 4 trillion Naira!

In Nigeria alone, Uber has over 10,000 drivers, with a 267,000 monthly passenger base in 2018.

With these numbers, it is safe to say ridesharing is a thriving business.

But how can you get in on it?

There are many niches for a rideshare/on-demand business. The first thing you want to do is determine the niche you want to function in.

Some examples of rideshare niches are apps like doordash, instacart, grubhub who offer deliveries between merchants and shoppers.

Another niche is bike hailing apps such as Gokada, Max.ng and Bird (owned by Uber). Gokada and Max are indigenous apps that have carved a name for themselves in the ride hailing industry. Both apps deliver people and items to their destinations.

You can build your own app to focus on pharmaceutical, laundry, petrol deliveries etc. In my opinion, the success of your app will most likely be determined by doing a very good job at what the established players don’t do at all or don’t do well.

Once your niche is determined, you want to carry out a market study. Do people really need your service? Are they willing to pay for it? What are your chances of success? Will it be a profitable venture? etc

And then you have to build your app. The Uber app has cost over 360 million Naira to develop so far. Luckily you don’t have to spend that much to build an app. There are app development companies that can either build from scratch or give you a pre-built option at a fraction of the cost.

It is very important to get a good app developer to build your app because getting a bad app will almost always lead in spending a large sum of money correcting mistakes down the line, or worse – it may lead to the demise of your business. If you don’t know a good app developer, I can connect you with a company that does excellent work.

When your app is set and in place, you would need an office space to operate from, there are a few options for this. You can choose to get a standalone office for yourself or you can work out of a shared work space such as Workstation, Capital Square, Work Bay, Ventures Platform and many others. You can pay monthly or yearly but I suggest paying yearly so as to get better rates.

Congratulations on coming this far. Now is the time to get drivers/riders who will populate your platform and actually transport the people/goods/services your platform serves. Emerging rideshare companies (especially in major cities) are at an advantage because the major players have sensitized the general public and everybody knows how these apps work.

There are existing drivers/riders who do ridesharing as a career and so getting drivers for your business should be easier than if you had to teach them about the business yourself. There are several Whatsapp/Facebook groups where drivers converge to discuss ridesharing issues. You can also run recruitment ads targeted at signing up drivers.

Offering incentives are a good way to acquire and keep drivers. You can also use these incentives to encourage certain driver behaviours depending on your data analysis. For instance, if you notice drivers aren’t coming online on your platform, you can offer an hourly incentive which pays drivers for coming and staying online on your platform.

Next is getting customers, this is the most important part because no riders means no revenue and no business. If there are no riders on your platform, not only are you going to be losing money, you will also lose the drivers you have already signed up.

To get customers, you have to go on marketing campaigns. You want to place ads on radio, social media, television and other mass media that is available to you and your potential customers. You also want to engage discounts, incentives, promos, referral programs etc to your customer base to get them using your app, talking about it and referring their friends.

You want to keep your customers loyal by rewarding them for doing so, at least till you pass the critical threshold of customers. Then you can afford to gradually scale back on some of such programs because they cost money to run. Of course you can’t just stop all - you will always need new customers.

You may scale down on the incentives and scale up on traditional adverts and maintaining your referral bonus as you achieve preset milestones.



The world is moving towards technology for performing daily tasks. Starting a rideshare business is a time and money consuming endeavour but the rewards are massive and worth the effort. The benefits to owning your own rideshare company are huge and growing even as the customer base increases. There is no better time to start your own company than now.


Taxi App Guy is ride share enthusiast who has worked with all the top ride hailing apps in Nigeria.