About this dataset
Transport fares in Nigeria change faster than any other regular household cost, and they change unevenly. A route can rise by a third in a month while a parallel one barely moves. Nobody publishes this, so the only way to know what a journey should cost is to ask somebody who made it recently.
This dataset collects those answers. Readers report the route, the mode, the city and the fare they paid. Everything is anonymous, no account is needed, and each entry is reviewed before it appears.
Fares vary with time of day, weather, fuel prices and how visibly you are in a hurry. Treat these as a reference point for what is reasonable rather than a fixed price.
How to read these figures
We publish the median rather than the average. The median is the middle value, so it is not dragged around by one unusually high or low entry in the way an average is. Where a single luxury property or one exceptional salary appears in a small sample, the average moves a long way and the median barely shifts.
Alongside every median we show how many entries it is based on and the range between the lowest and highest. Those two numbers matter as much as the median itself. A median drawn from forty entries across a city tells you something real. A median drawn from two tells you what two people paid, and should be read that way.
Dates matter too. Every entry carries the month it was reported. In categories where prices move quickly, a figure from eighteen months ago is a historical record rather than a current one, and should be weighted accordingly.
Limits worth keeping in mind
- This is self reported data, not an audited statistic. We review every entry for plausibility but cannot verify any individual figure.
- The people who submit are not a representative sample of Nigeria. They are readers of this site, which skews the picture in ways we cannot fully measure.
- Local variation within a city can be larger than variation between states, and a city level location cannot capture that.
- Where a location has only a handful of entries, treat the figure as an anecdote rather than a market rate.
- Nothing here is a valuation, an offer or professional advice. Confirm anything important directly with the relevant party.
Add your own
Every entry makes the next person better informed. The form takes under a minute, needs no account, and collects no name, email address or anything else that identifies you. Submissions are reviewed before publication, which is what keeps the data usable.
Report what you pay for transport fares, or see the other datasets.