How ride-hailing technology can tackle unemployment

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By Prince Osuagwu

Adapting to local conditions, transport apps are enabling Nigerian users to cut through gridlocks while creating massive jobs on a driver-partner scheme.

Nigerian youths

A group of Nigerian driver partners of ride hailing app, Taxify, recently decided to share their success stories as a way of encouraging other partners, particularly the teeming Nigerian unemployed youths, to embrace the power of technology in problem solving.

Driver partners on the Taxify platform talked about the ease of driving, the flexible hours that makes it an option for not just the unemployed but also for the underemployed.

A particularly inspiring story of the Taxify revolution is that of Ayo Johnson, who was banker but was laid off in the heat of the recession in 2016. With a family of four to feed and no other source of income, he turned to Taxify. In his first week he made ¦ 95,000,…



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