What makes PaddiRide different
You name the price.
The market answers back.
A rider posts what they're willing to pay. Nearby drivers see it live and can accept it or counter with their own price. It's the okada-stand haggle Nigeria already knows, running at app speed — then everything else a household needs, built around it.
1 — Rider posts
2 — Drivers reply live
3 — Rider counters
4 — Settled, compared
Getting around
Five ways to move
Real-time fare negotiation
You post the price you’re offering. Nearby drivers see it live and can accept it or counter with their own price and ETA — you counter back, compare offers, and pick.
Keke & bike booking
Every vehicle Nigeria actually rides, not just cars — booked, priced and tracked the same way.
Carpooling
Pool with people on your route, daily or once-off. A monthly plan reserves your seat for anyone already driving your road.
Car hire & escort
Hire a car outright, or with a personal escort, for a day, an event, or a route you’d rather not drive yourself.
Car haulage
Move goods between locations at haulage scale, booked and tracked like any other trip.
Sending & buying
Beyond getting somewhere
Dispatch & delivery
Waybill an item and send it to anyone — tracked door to door.
Order from a shop
Pooled ordering across partner shops — fast food, supermarket, fuel station, market run — in one basket.
Vendor marketplace
Any vendor can onboard and list what they sell, reaching every rider already in the app.
Safety net
Built in, not bolted on
SOS, by incident type
Accident, robbery, kidnapping, or another threat — name it, and robbery or kidnapping widens the alert past your own contacts to every nearby rider and driver in the area.
Go Live
Record and broadcast a dangerous moment as it happens; anyone in your location is alerted the instant you go live.
Emergency contacts & health profile
Contacts alerted automatically on SOS; a health practitioner can pull your status in an emergency.
Road reports, by state
Flooding, blockages, protests, diversions — a page per state, with a push notification to riders and drivers the moment a report is filed nearby.
Money & growth
A wallet that goes everywhere
PaddiCard
Tap to pay any driver or vendor — no app or signal needed on their end. A health responder scans the same card for your emergency profile.
Fleet management
An owner onboards their bikes or cars, drivers book every trip through the app, and the owner watches daily sales and sets an installment until it’s paid off.
Trip insurance
Insure a booked ride against accidents or missing items before you set off.
Also under the hood
Built in, rarely mentioned
The parts of the app doing quiet work behind every trip.
In-app calls, video & chat
Driver and rider stay in one thread the whole trip — no phone number ever shared.
Driver verification & video interview
ID, selfie, liveness and BVN/NIN checks, plus a scheduled live interview before approval.
Referral & influencer rewards
A code or a link tracks who brought a rider in, with a payout trail behind it.
PaddiCard+ lost-card tracking
Any nearby PaddiRide phone anonymously reports hearing a lost card’s Bluetooth beacon.
Idle session lock
The app re-locks itself after sitting untouched, so a picked-up phone can’t book on someone else’s account — it never interrupts an active trip.
Offline-aware design
An SOS or a road report queues and sends the moment signal returns.
On the roadmap
What's coming next
Business & school accounts
A company wallet and a standing staff-shuttle or school-run contract.
Driver financing tools
Earnings statements a driver can hand to a lender, and loans linked to trip history.
Accessibility mode
Voice-led booking and wheelchair-flagged vehicles.
Impact tracking
The emissions story alongside every trip, as EV and CNG vehicles come online.
See it for yourself
Read the full walkthrough of how a trip actually works, or get in touch about riding, driving, or partnering.