The corpse of the Bolt driver reported missing has been found by the Police. Thomas was declared missing in February. A Police patrol team had discovered his vehicle abandoned by the roadside at Ojota, Lagos. EKO HOT BLOG reports that Aiyu Eromosele Thomas, a driver of a taxi-hailing app, Bolt, who was reported missing in … Read more
Lagos police have allegedly ‘kidnapped’ a web designer on bolt ride and demanded N5m ‘ransom’. EKO HOT BLOG reports that Ifenna Okeke, a website designer, has narrated how police officers from the Area E Police Station, Festac, Lagos, extorted N300,000 from him. Okeke told FIJ he was on a Bolt ride heading to the Festival … Read more
The National President and members of Professional E – Hailing and Private Owners Association (PEDPA) reiterate their readiness to support, cooperate and abide by the Lagos State Government on new regulations and guidelines on operations of ride-sharing application and their operators. The president, Comrade Idris Shonuga made this known during a humanitarian visit to one … Read more
The Lagos State Government regulations for ride-hailing services such as Bolt and Uber will take effect on August 20. Transport Companies with less than 1,000 drivers are to pay a N10million licence fee, while those with more than 1,000 drivers are to pay N25 million. Annual renewal for those with more than 1,000 drivers have … Read more
The leading on-demand transportation platform, Bolt, has appointed Femi Akin-Laguda as the Country Manager for its operations in Nigeria. Having served in various capacities at Bolt over the last three years most recently as City Manager for Lagos where he engineered the introduction of an identity verification portal- a first of its kind safety feature … Read more
Nigerian singer Esegine Allen better known as Orezi is demanding a sum of one million Naira from Bolt (formerly known Taxify) as damages, after he broke his jaw in an accident on third mainland bridge, Lagos. Orezi was involved in the auto crash on December 6, while he was in a rush to catch up … Read more