The startups listed above aren’t even running the same service as Uber, so the comparison feels odd. If we’re talking of similar products, I think Eazy Taxi is one.
And while I know it’s the Nigerian thing to blame others for our failures, I’m pretty sure I’d heard about Bus long before Uber came to Nigeria. Other similar bus-chartering services I’d heard of died long before Uber got here.
I feel instead of constantly complaining about foreigners, we should focus on making and funding ‘high-quality’ (the quality is important, a lot of people don’t get this) products that our people would want to use. We have the advantage of knowing the market, after all. Competition is good and will always exist, it should inspire us to do better. The truth is many local apps look or work terribly. I’m not going to use patriotism as a reason to put up with something bad when there are other options.