By BRIAN NGUGISafaricom-backed online taxi-hailing app Little Ride is set to launch its services in Nigeria and Uganda by April next year, marking its maiden foray outside Kenya. Little, developed by technology firm Craft Silicon, says it plans to partner with other mobile phone provider resident in these countries since Safaricom does not operate there. The firm’s expansion plans to the two populous nations will effectively transfer the taxi price wars that Little has sparked locally to its giant American rival Uber further afield. “Yes we are eyeing to launch in Nigeria and Uganda by the first quarter of 2017,” Kamal Budhabhatti, Craft Silicon founder, told Business Daily in a telephone interview. “Nigeria is where we have our biggest continental operations as Craft Silicon and so we believe we have leverage there.

Source: Daily Nation November 17, 2016 19:05 UTC