Innoson Motors Plans October Launch of Ride-hailing Service in Enugu

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Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing (IVM) has revealed plans to enter the ride-hailing sector in Enugu, joining other providers like Uber, Bolt, Oma, and RideOn. Innoson’s custom service, called IVM Connect, will launch in October.

TechNextNG reports that IVM will be moving 200 vehicles from its Nnewi base to Enugu, and by next year, when IVM Connect will be launched in other southeastern Nigerian states, it will expand its fleet to 4,800 vehicles. The company is in the final stages of developing an app, IVMCruise.

The new service will run a hire-purchase model, in which vehicles will be given to drivers who are expected to pay for them within two years. The model is different from that of Uber and Bolt, which ensures that driver-partners must have their own vehicles before joining the service.

IVM announced vacancies on Twitter.

Vacancies!!!

Innoson Vehicles, the first indigenous vehicle manufacturing company in Nigeria is about to launch ride-hailing services in the city of Enugu and therefore seeks for the employment of professional drivers for the ride services.https://t.co/MAPIpTZc4V
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Otosirieze Obi-Young

Otosirieze Obi-Young is a writer, editor, journalist, and curator. He is Editor of Folio Nigeria, where he profiles innovators and facilitators in culture: business, art, photography, music, activism, health, food. He has vast experience working in literature. He has sat on the judging panels of The Gerald Kraak Prize and of The Morland Writing Scholarship. He is an editor at 14, Nigeria's first queer art collective, and Curator at The Art Naija Series, a sequence of e-anthologies exploring different aspects of Nigerianness. For three years, Nov. 2016 to Apr. 2020, he led the transformation of the literary blog Brittle Paper into a continental powerhouse, ideating and administering The Brittle Paper Awards, the first by an African publication. His work in queer advocacy has been profiled in Literary Hub. In 2019, he won The Future Awards Africa Prize for Literature. In 2020, he was named among "The 100 Most Influential Young Nigerians." He completed a collection of short stories in 2016 and his novel in 2020. Find him on otosirieze.com or on Twitter & Insta: @otosirieze.

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