Ride Hailing

Bolt is Nigeria's biggest ride-hailing platform. The Estonian-based mobility company is active in about 10 cities in Nigeria. And like other tech companies, Bolt has what it calls 'Bolt Wrap-up'. Wrap-up is an annual feature that gives its users a summary of their activity on... Read More

Safeboda has announced the introduction of a new feature in form of utility bill payments at a fee of 1 shilling for the month of March in Uganda. It might be too little too late for some, but looking at the larger picture, it makes... Read More

Ride-hailing app, SafeBoda, has announced a 50% slash on cashless rides for customers for an entire week starting from 21st to 25th February 2022. The discount promotion, dubbed 50% Cashless Madness, comes following President Museveni lifting the night curfew on boda bodas. This week, a... Read More

Gokada launched in Nigeria in 2018 as a ride-hailing startup, with a focus on Lagos at the time. However, the sudden ban on commercial motorcycle activities in Lagos by the Lagos State government forced the startup to shut down its ride-hailing operations and pivot into... Read More

At the time of writing this article, the Ministry of Health in Uganda had confirmed 44 COVID-19 cases with no deaths or recoveries. The President of Uganda ordered a total lockdown to try and prevent the spread of the virus. Many businesses closed while others... Read More

Ride-hailing app SafeBoda has reached the one million downloads milestone on Google Play Store. This is after just over 3 years since it first went live. It has since become the most popular Boda Boda hailing app in Uganda and this explains the huge number... Read More

The ride-hailing scene in Nairobi is a rather vibrant one. Players like Uber, Bolt, inDriver and Little are all fighting for a chance to be the ones to drive you around town. However, for a while now, the privilege of hailing a ride has been... Read More

About 4 months ago, SafeBode (a leading motorbike-hailing startup in Uganda) announced that it was expanding operations to Nigeria. The announcement was made not too long after it entered the Kenyan ride-hailing scene, making Nigeria its third country of operation. The announcement was followed by... Read More

Opera Software currently runs some of the biggest startups in Nigeria and have now added another new product/service to its arsenal. This time, a bus-hailing service it calls OBus. OBus comes not too long after it launched OTrike (a tricycle-hailing service) and it joins the... Read More