LASU Female Student Who Works As Uber Driver Says She Makes N80k to N100k Every Week

A 27-year-old female student of Lagos State University identified as Ibukun Olukoya who works as an uber driver has revealed that she makes a lot of money from her job.

The young undergraduate revealed that she want to fund her education through her job as Uber driver.

What is important is that she has taken on the job head-on. And she says her folks are very comfortable with her choice of ‘hustle.’ 

Olukoya said “Well, aside from the fact that there is no job anywhere in the country, I love the flexible work schedule as I plan to resume my studies soon. I’d be funding it myself, I needed to be on the platform that can enable me to do both and thanks to Uber, I got my answer.” 

In a job dominated by men, Olukoya does not feel intimidated. She says her biggest supporters are men. 

He said: “In fact, the level of respect they (men) show throughout the trip is amazing. I’ll give that to most of our men. We have really good and funny chats on general topics but nothing unpleasant occurred so far”. 

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But she regrets that she has not gotten that same support from her fellow ladies.

 “But others (mostly women) have had to cancel on me because as soon as my picture appears on my profile, they already believe I am incompetent even without having met me. And the reason they do that remains unknown to me. 

Olukoya said: “And that makes me really uncomfortable because I feel like women as a community should always have each others’ back no matter what.

And this I even like I am at least doing something to help make the world one less of an idle mind and all I ask is a little encouragement from fellow women”, she said. 

She said that is also what other ladies on the platform complain about, lack of patronage from fellow women. Olukoya says she targets from N80,000 to N100,000 weekly from her job. 

She says she is happy because she helps to facilitate the movement of riders within Lagos while making some money as well.

The bad state of the roads and the current fuel scarcity remains a daunting task, not just for her, but for other riders on the platform. 

“Having to queue for fuel every now and then makes our time worthless. And having to cancel a trip due to a rider’s destination as a result of bad roads within the state. 

“I have had to take riders to some areas in the state with really brutal roads and that’s not good for the car. Olukoya said she enjoys driving late into the night because she gets to have the roads to herself. 

“I hang out with my friends whenever work takes me to their neighbourhoods”, she said 

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CREDIT: ALLSCHOOL, Legit