Planning on boarding a taxi ?,whether its the "local" ones or one of the services springing up from all nook and crannies.Your safety is of utmost importance.

So what safety procedures should you take ?.

In no particular order, lets find out !.

1.Make Use Of Parks

If you are going the "local" or regular way ,I mean the "kabu kabu" ,make sure you make use of parks .Its easy to identify them,look out for logos and sign boards designated to an association of taxi drivers .

2.Use Trusted Services

If you have to go the other way and make use of modern services that are springing up everyday,be careful to use the genuine ones .There are quite a lot of ride sharing and taxi services springing up nowadays,so be careful.

3.Always Sit At The Back

We Africans love respect ,and we have this notion that when you sit at the back of a car while an elderly man drives ,its disrespectful.Bear in mind that its a professional service being rendered and your safety comes first.

When you sit at the front its easy to gain access to you if any harm is intended.

4.Try Not To Travel At Night

I know this seems too pushy ,but its best if you can just avoid night travels .

Its easy for harm to come to you when you travel at night ,not just from the taxi driver ,but from other factors such as armed robbery.

5.Send The Plate Number To Someone Close

Just as an extra line of defense and safety,take a picture of the car and the plate number and send it to a family or friend .

6.Share Your Location At All Times

Sending the car information is not enough , he could have placed a decoy plate number .

So at all times share your location ,there are apps that can help you share your real time location with a loved one .

7.Always Have A Decoy ATM Card

Don't carry your 'real' ATM card with you,move around with another with very little cash meant for emergency.

When you need more cash you can always do a transfer .

8.Be Polite

The rate at which taxi drivers are beating people up, especially women is getting alarming .

I am in no way supporting violence,but cases like this can be averted if passengers are polite .Passengers,mostly Nigerians like behaving like kings when they board a taxi.

So be polite always and avoid confrontation .

9.Maintain Eye Contact

When negotiating with the driver before boarding ,maintain eye contact with him/her.

Most times when they have ulterior motives they would get jittery and try to avoid eye contact.

10.Surrender

I hope it doesn't happen,but if everything goes bad and he turns out to be a robber .Just give up all your items,don't struggle .Your life is more valuable than all what you own.

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By Donald3d

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it's autojosh again

students will hardly observe these safety tips. especially that number one
imagine me travelling to school. then you will expect me to go and spend much at the park.
when I can spend half of that money if I stand on the road.
imagine me sitting at the back. all those eighteen sitter bus when be say if accident happen to jump come out na war
travelling at night is the sweetest. my guys for hostel nor go even know when I go take show
who want dey look driver for eye? I be homosexual? I dey look man like me inside eye

If possible move in pairs

Thanks for this..

Very insightful.

Good points noted

Of everything said here, the last line of *surrender* na im make sense pass. Make person no go do pass himself.

Nice info

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gonna do that eye contact stuff on those micra dudes in my city...

ok... thanks for the info

Egbeda-Oluwo-Toll Gate Micra drivers would allow you to look dem in the eye or Ojoo-Sango-Mokola drivers get una time say mek u dey look dem for eye

Kakamorufu:
gonna do that eye contact stuff on those micra dudes in my city...

okay

Nice tips, No 1 is very important.....

Nice one but only in Lagos sha
Cos Akure na only taxi

you forgot some important tips.

1. Never allow a taxi man drop u in ur house. Drop some few meters away such that the driver will not know your home.

2. Also avoid discussing millions and millions, deals etc in taxi's.

3. Don't sleep no matter how tired.

Take up self-defense class, preferably Taekwondo or Krav Maga, trust me, it comes in handy.

And what if he wants to kidnap you? would you also advise the victim to surrender?

nice

Nice tips

slawomir:
students will hardly observe these safety tips. especially that number one
imagine me travelling to school. then you will expect me to go and spend much at the park.
when I can spend half of that money if I stand on the road.
imagine me sitting at the back. all those eighteen sitter bus when be say if accident happen to jump come out na war
travelling at night is the sweetest. my guys for hostel nor go even know when I go take show
who want dey look driver for eye? I be homosexual? I dey look man like me inside eye

boss u af talked my thoughts...it's high time u get off my head n stop commenting wat I think. lol.... I like dat feeling when I enter hostel by 11-12pm

students will hardly observe these safety tips. especially that number one
imagine me travelling to school. then you will expect me to go and spend much at the park.
when I can spend half of that money if I stand on the road.
imagine me sitting at the back. all those eighteen sitter bus when be say if accident happen to jump come out na war
travelling at night is the sweetest. my guys for hostel nor go even know when I go take show
who want dey look driver for eye? I be homosexual? I dey look man like me inside eye


Must you air your negative and childish tots. Nairaland is filled with babies now.

And girls, don't leave the house under heated argument or issue at night. No matter how worse the issue. A friend of mine left her boyfriend's house around past 11pm. What happened to her, na only me sabi.

nice
The way I bone my face when boarding a taxi ehn

the driver would even be scared of me robbing him

8. Be polite. Thats what i heard caused the taxify beating...."e" and "o" .... My yoruba brothers and sisters will know the difference