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With fuel scarcity having already driven up prices in Nigeria in recent months, the financial implications for the drivers ...

After a gruelling evening of work in late August, a Nigerian driver for the ride-share app Bolt in Lagos decided to accept one last journey and then head home for the night. That’s when he was ...