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Federal Govt-Backed YourTaxiNow wants a share of Nigeria’s taxi hailing industy

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10394140_663464017070671_1538626182352241541_nThough Nigeria’s has giants Uber, Easy Taxi, TaxiPixi and new ones such as TransKonect, Federal Government-backed Yourtaxinow.com says it still wants it’s share of Nigeria’s taxi hailing app industry. The firm has launched its site is working on apps to add to its call centre services that provides customers with fast, convenient, reliable, affordable and safe cab booking experience.

According to David Chijioke Managing Director Yourtaxinow.com, “Our customers can also rate our drivers and book preferred taxi directly. With this we are able to solve the problem of driver’s not being reliable and trust worthy.”
Yourtaxinow has been live since October 2014 and the startup says its call center and the customised live portal has been serving clients with maximum satisfaction. Recently the firm launched its drivers locator App to help users locate their drivers wherever they are.

“We are not the usual Taxi hailing app, we work with the customers from the point of booking to drop off. Helping the driver to locate the customer from pick up till drop. Customers could also rate and book there preferred driver on our live portal,” says Chijioke.

Though Chijioke knows its not gonna be easy for them in the space, they are giving it a try nevertheless.

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Sam Wakoba
Sam Wakobahttp://techmoran.com
Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Sam Wakoba is a pan-African technology journalist, author, entrepreneur, technology business mentor, judge, educationalist, and a sought-after speaker and panelist across Africa’s innovation ecosystem. He is the convenor of the popular monthly #TechNight evening event and the #StartupEast Awards and Conference, platforms that bring together startup founders, developers, entrepreneurs, investors, content creators, and tech professionals from across the continent. For more than 16 years, Sam has reported on and analysed Africa’s technology landscape, covering some of the continent’s most impactful, and at times controversial policies, programs, investors, co-founders, startups, and corporations. His work is known for its independence, depth, and fairness, with a singular goal of helping build and strengthen Africa’s nascent technology ecosystem. Beyond journalism, Sam is a business analyst and consultant, working with brands, universities, corporates, SMEs, and startups across East Africa, as well as international companies entering the East African market or scaling across Africa. In his free time, he volunteers as a consulting editor and fintech analyst at Business Tech Kenya, a business, technology, and data firm that publishes reports, reviews, and insights on business and technology trends in Kenya. Follow him on X: @SamWakoba

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