Life of Uber taxi driver in Nigeria

Uber is a multionline transportation company that was founded in 2009 in US. Uber developed an application “Uber App” which allows consumers using their smart app to located drivers in cities they operate. Uber is currently operatin in 66 countries including Nigeria, and 449 cities including Abuja.

Naij.com has a special report on  the lives of amazing Uber drivers; Samuel, Adele and Simon from Abuja Nigeria. The drivers started their experience working with Uber, how lucrative and successful the business is going and the differences it is making.

 

Thier experinece and story

According to Samuel, Uber is the next generation Taxi in Nigeria. He started working with them last month after he learned that Uber was in Abuja. He use to work part time with a company before. He explained how he came across Uber and how comfortable he is working with them now. He said he is earning about N100,000 a mount. ” I enjoy what i do and i am looking forward to purchase my own car and be its driver”. That way, things will be much much better for me.

He explained that from inside Abuja to airport, ordinary taxi drivers are charging people about the some of N5,000. But from airport to Abuja metropolis, Uber will only charge you the some of N3,000.

Simon is 45 years old. He has been a casual staff that works with a company in Abuja before joining Uber. ” My children are attending a better school and i am looking forward to be a better dad”. He said he is earning between the sum of N90,000 to N110,000 per month.

 

From Uber’s ambassador 

Abdulbaqi Jari is one of Uber’s ambassadors. He explained that Uber is different from ordinary Taxi because Uber is using professional, educated drivers, and that their cars are sound and modern.

 

FDI

Major world business are now finding Nigeria as a business heaven especially the major Cities like Lagos and Abuja. Lagos is now one of the major growing cities in the world with close to about 12 million people leaving in it. While Abuja is one of world’s most expensive real estate hub.

 

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