Nigerians vs South Africans Users of taxi services like Bolt engaged in an extraordinary digital fight that caused a substantial surge Due to users from both nations ordering and then canceling rides to annoy drivers, there has been tension resulting in major loss of fuel, time, and effort, and fees for canceling the drivers involved. The problem started with a south african who initiated this prank on a Nigerian bolt driver.
The conflict allegedly started when users from South Africa started to schedule false rides in Nigeria and then cancel them, leaving drivers in the country stranded.
Although the reasons for these jokes are unknown, they appear to be related to internet trolling and xenophobic attacks in the past between both countries.
The problem worsened when Nigerians started treating South African drivers in the same way. Since then, people from both nations have been taunting one another on social media and sharing their experiences with the petty joke.
This massive reaction from the Nigerians created such a huge surge causing most South Africans intending to order a ride stranded.
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The battle between Nigerians vs South Africans has affected drivers’ livelihoods as well as to being annoying. More and more drivers are unable to cover the losses from fake transport requests due to rising gasoline prices. Some are even denying long-distance travel to avoid possible pranks.
Bolt and other similar services have cancelled inter-country requests between Nigerians vs South Africans to prevent further damages. They have assured affected drivers and users that a form of compensation will be rewarded to ease the fee accumulated.
While this may have solved the existing problems for Bolt, it has also restricted the platform users from the opportunity to have family and friend pay for their rides even from outside their respective countries.
Controversies like this has gone on between Nigerians Vs South Africans, recently chidimma was kicked out from the Miss South Africa beauty competition because of her Nigerian-Zimbabwean origin, and Nigerians in a move to backlash South Africa invited chidimma to compete in Nigeria’s Miss universe competition.
Bolt is now facing operational difficulties as a result of the joke. As a result, the business has suspended the accounts participating in these activities to lessen the situation.
To stop future abuse and guarantee the security and dependability of its services.
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