Being stranded is tough and no matter how careful you might be, it happens sometimes. Considering our society isn’t exactly friendly to strangers and those in need of help, you need to keep in mind some smart tips for helping yourself when stranded. Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency, shares 4 smart things to do when accidentally stranded.

Be Calm

It’s only when you are able to remain calm and think, that you can successfully figure a way out of the situation. If you allow yourself lose your composure and start panicking, you might end up making mistakes that will aggravate the situation.

Call for Help

You should immediately call a reliable person you know for help. Explain your situation to them and where you are so they can help you out. If you are accidentally stranded and you don’t have a phone (maybe because your battery ran down, you don’t have airtime to call or you forgot your phone), you need to be a lot wiser about how you ask for help. Due to the nature of our society, there is a lot of distrust for strangers so you are unlikely to get help by just walking up to a random stranger; as a result of this, your discerning skills are going to have to be brought to fore. Assess the people around you and figure out the ones that are likely to actually help if you ask for it, because there are those who might use the opportunity to swindle you. Another option is to ask for the nearest police station or government office, and go to them for help.

Be Patient

After calling or asking for help, most people forget to be patient when stranded. If you called someone from the other side of town for help, you’re going to have to accept that you’ll be waiting a while for that person. Help is hardly immediate and though inconvenient, you are going to have to accept it and figure out how to keep yourself safe in the meantime.

Don’t Make Your Plight Obvious

One very helpful tip for keeping yourself safe when stranded is not to make it obvious to everyone around you that you are stranded or in need of help. Once you have called for help, you need to remember that help is already on the way and you should thus try to blend in and act as naturally as possible in the meantime. This is to avoid exposing yourself to swindlers and other shady characters that might want to take advantage of your situation.

source: www.opinions.ng/4-smart-things-stranded/

Consult ifa for instructions.

Nice tips. And if its financial my SIGNATURE is Tue surest

If u r a man, Dont approach women when observing people around u...they hardly help.#Xperience

Noted

I can't be calm if am stranded at third mainland bridge...I would rather run away..

Call Nigerian Embassy

Okay, the person above is a weed dealer...

Stranded means u lack communications too

nothing new here

EmekaBlue:
If u r a man, Dont approach women when observing people around u...they hardly help.#Xperience

Maybe ur face is too strong. Women help men easily and men help ladies easily. Its just psychological. And also talking from experience

Precaution for those travelling to the North for Youth Service

Guyman02:
For those of us living in the North, I advice people coming for youth service from the South who are oblivious of the lifestyle and backwardness in the North :
one fact you must know as a Southerner is that you can easily be lynched in the North, for example if somebody in Zamfara owes you N5m and you travel from Lagos to Gusau to get your money which the person is not willing to pay and wants to eliminate you; all he needs to do is to engage you in an argument and shout that you have abused the Prophet and Islam; that could be not only the end of your money but your life as well. A mob of Almajiri will gather and stone you and will not even ask you if it is true or not.

Secondly, avoid any Arabic paper; the reality is that you could be lynched for squeezing a Porn magazine written in Arabic alphabet while nothing may happen to you if you burn a copy of the Koran written in English.
Most illiterates in the North think that Arabic alphabets has to do with the Koran only and its from Allah, they dont know that in the Middle East and Asia its a means of writing used in solving mathematics, physics equations, writing letters, newspapers, Bible etc

Avoid arguments with mallams when in the market or motor park, if the price is not good move to the next shop or bus, if they say get out, just get out to avoid trouble.
If you can, learn the Shahada in Arabic (not English) as it may help you in times of trouble even if you are not a Muslim; just keep repeating it and they will back off and say you have acknowledged their Prophet, stay alive first.

Shahada: la ilaha illa Allah, Muḥammadu rasulu Allah
There is no god but God. Muhammad is the messenger of God

They behave like animals when they are in religious frenzy as they see you Southerners as the reason for their poverty because of the sins (womanizing, alcohol, clubbing, gambling etc) you commit against their Allah, this is what their religious leaders tell them.

They dont face serious prosecution or sanctions for religious crimes as the average Northern politicians feel it will cost them the next election if they are seen to be prosecuting Muslims who defended the 'honour' of the prophet and Islam by killing blasphemers and infidels and will not want to jeopardize his electoral chances because of the noise from you in the South

Op, I thought you said '4 SMART things to do'.

People who go stranded are careless.
Me am always 100% sure and ready before i move out.
Use your head.

Lukmann1:
0p your points is rubbish, maybe you has not get stranded before, that's why you are talked like that.

english please

OK... Nothing new here sha

what?!

Lukmann1:
0p your points is rubbish, maybe you has not get stranded before, that's why you are talked like that.

Opinionated:
Being stranded is tough and no matter how careful you might be, it happens sometimes. Considering our society isn’t exactly friendly to strangers and those in need of help, you need to keep in mind some smart tips for helping yourself when stranded. Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency, shares 4 smart things to do when accidentally stranded.

Be Calm

It’s only when you are able to remain calm and think, that you can successfully figure a way out of the situation. If you allow yourself lose your composure and start panicking, you might end up making mistakes that will aggravate the situation.

Call for Help

You should immediately call a reliable person you know for help. Explain your situation to them and where you are so they can help you out. If you are accidentally stranded and you don’t have a phone (maybe because your battery ran down, you don’t have airtime to call or you forgot your phone), you need to be a lot wiser about how you ask for help. Due to the nature of our society, there is a lot of distrust for strangers so you are unlikely to get help by just walking up to a random stranger; as a result of this, your discerning skills are going to have to be brought to fore. Assess the people around you and figure out the ones that are likely to actually help if you ask for it, because there are those who might use the opportunity to swindle you. Another option is to ask for the nearest police station or government office, and go to them for help.

Be Patient

After calling or asking for help, most people forget to be patient when stranded. If you called someone from the other side of town for help, you’re going to have to accept that you’ll be waiting a while for that person. Help is hardly immediate and though inconvenient, you are going to have to accept it and figure out how to keep yourself safe in the meantime.

Don’t Make Your Plight Obvious

One very helpful tip for keeping yourself safe when stranded is not to make it obvious to everyone around you that you are stranded or in need of help. Once you have called for help, you need to remember that help is already on the way and you should thus try to blend in and act as naturally as possible in the meantime. This is to avoid exposing yourself to swindlers and other shady characters that might want to take advantage of your situation.

source: www.opinions.ng/4-smart-things-stranded/

isorite....

Lukmann1:
0p your points is rubbish, maybe you has not get stranded before, that's why you are talked like that.

correct english fall on u

talk2percy:
isorite....

And you must quote everything

potent5:
Op, I thought you said '4 SMART things to do'.

lol ... it looks like 4 DULL things to do abi



kwantinue

If you get stranded in borno near sambisa forest,just confess your sins to God.

Op, e get one kind area wey u go stranded, you will find yourself incapable of doing all four options.

Lukmann1:
0p your points is rubbish, maybe you has not get stranded before, that's why you are talked like that.

is that why you HAS also talked like that

Kukuma start begging people on the street for money,but if you an axeman you locate the nearest temple for help...simple

If you are not be patient and calm couple with making call for assistance while stranded then what else a person has to do?

Gprs

Nice tips there and as a #TourismMan, I would add be safety conscious. If displaying your stranded situation to everyone, likelihood is that some unscrupulous elements like ritualists or robbers may take advantage of your plight to worsen your situation.