One of the city's first female Danfo drivers, Adunni is breaking barriers while navigating her bus through the streets of Lagos. See her drive change and challenge gender norms in Nigeria's bustling transport industry.
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00:00Everybody is rushing to work, so there is always traffic in the morning and in the evening.
00:07But we do have choice, we know how to face it.
00:10Some people used to trek home, because there is a lot of traffic.
00:14You can see the race, they are rushing when they want to rent a bus.
00:31Lagos and traffic, there will be five buses.
00:33I enjoy driving in the Lagos route, because we drive crazy.
00:44I drive since I was a child, I love everything.
01:00You know here in Lagos, I see a lot of cars, a lot of tricycles.
01:04I don't even know maybe I'm going to drive it one day.
01:23I can drive manual and I can drive automatic.
01:26But I don't like manual, because it's very stressful.
01:28Amole bus stop, NMTC, hotel bus stop.
01:34This road we call building our bus stop.
01:44I just made 2,800 now, and I'll give back the 500.
01:49So my money is remaining 2,300.
01:52Yes, let's use the bus stop now to carry passengers.
01:59I have nothing.
02:00I have the phone, I have the phone.
02:02I have nothing.
02:05I have the phone.
02:16No.
02:18My bus has no phone.
02:25Come on.
02:29Come on.
02:35At the beginning of my career, male drivers, they bullied me very well.
02:40I would just be like, when am I going to look?
02:43To be a female driver is not easy.
02:45You have to rugged everything that comes your way.
02:48If you behave like a female, you're not going to see monetary growth.
02:51You need to face anybody that faces you.
02:54Get out.
02:56Get out.
02:58You're not going to pay for this.
02:59Pay me back.
03:12We usually pay twice per trip.
03:15So when we start loading, we are going to pay.
03:19When we get to our destination, we're going to pay.
03:21If we want to carry passengers, we are going to pay it through.
03:24At the end of the day, me and Agboru, we are friends now
03:27because I had one experience between me and Agboru and my chairman.
03:31He offloaded my passenger.
03:33Now I'm very, very angry.
03:51I love this mirror, you can see I even designed it.
04:00It's easy to control.
04:01There's a mirror that will be shaking like a gamma laser.
04:05And you see this is my tyre.
04:06I love alloy wheels because it beautifies my pose.
04:09And you see that guiding at the front.
04:11It protects the front of my pose.
04:14So any motor that even wants to hit me from the back,
04:17this guide will protect it.
04:19You can see this back seat that I had to put a cover seat on.
04:22It's mostly in Lagos now.
04:24All those people, their chairs, their everything, they're always here.
04:28So me, and I don't want such.
04:30So I had to put a seat cover on it so that it's going to be very, very beautiful.
04:34And my passenger is going to sit comfortably.
04:37And you see this stone wash, it's because of Agboru.
04:41Because once they want to collect money and you don't give them money,
04:44they will just eat it.
04:46On the one on my other side, you will see that that vehicle there,
04:50it has hit inside.
04:51Due to, because it did not get it very well.
05:16So I can change, I can do my service by myself.
05:34Because I've learned it from my mechanic.
05:36Because I know how to change the oil filter.
05:38And I know how to put oil.
05:39I know when it's gauged.
05:41Our road network here is very, very bad.
05:43Because it's usually spoiling my tire.
05:45I can change tire, maybe like two, three weeks.
05:48Because of the road.
05:50You can see the way my motor is down there.
05:52It's because of the bad road.
05:53There's many potholes on this road.
05:55Many potholes.
06:02In a day, I go to A3 from Magege to Berger.
06:05Berger is the destination.
06:07And I carry passenger from Berger to Magege back.
06:11So from seven to seven.
06:14Seven in the morning to seven in the evening.
06:17Then I close for the day.
06:37My future plan is I want to be,
06:38I want to fill up the big space for women.
06:42For women that want to know how to drive automobile.
06:45I've seen a lot of women that used to come to me.
06:48They want to know how to drive this automobile.
06:51So since I don't have the strength now.
06:53But I'm saving up.
06:54I know by God's grace, I'm getting there.