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CelebritiesRe: Lockdown: Lagos Withdraws Charges Against Naira Marley, Gbadamosi by A305:
The STATE is powerful. After the fictitious idea of God to be deemed powerful, the next powerful element on earth is the power vested on government by the people; The next in line after that is the power in the thin line of love and hate.
RomanceRe: I Lost my job, my girlfriend dumped me and nairalanders saved me from suicide by A305: 1:02pm On Apr 08, 2020
Tankunland:
When Shola's mom called me her first question was do i know who the father of Samuel is and I replied and said yes of course it's her grand daughters dad and she said to me I'm the real father of Samuel and that her late daughter reiterated it 2 days before she died guys I went crazy again.


Why me, why me, why me was the question I was asking my self. Why is all this thing's happening to me was the question that just kept repeating itself in my head.


I went to see my boy and the connection was instant ooo just carrying him again after 6 months send shivers down my spine and now I'm just waiting for his Grandma to tell the other guy that Samuel is mine.


I have already started sending my kid small small money again for his up keep Lol even tho not much because I don't even have much now but i would do everything within my power to give this Young kid the best of life that me and his late mother my queen his mother planned for him even when I never knew he was mine.


Wow I'm done. My hands ache. Just wanna say thank you to Seun Osewa for this beautiful forum, thank you to Joe Abah for retweeting that tweet even tho it hasn't yield devident yet but thanks and thank you to those beautiful souls that saved my life with that 9k I know you remember me and I say God bless you.


and to those on the verge of suicide I tell you that you can overcome and it's not the end of the world for you and Whatever you are passing through has an end ok and I need you to realize people somewhere is passing through the same or even harder situation than you. Don't give up, don't stop praying even tho I lost my faith a lil but don't lose yours because only the almighty can do all things.


To my young sister's reading this please be contented with what your man gives to you. The course of sholas death was so painful when I heard but please my dear sister dont date a Yahoo boy for any reason or even go out with one.


I tell you Yahoo doesn't work again and what they do now is Yahoo plus and some of this guy's are heartless and don't care about anyone than just to make that fetish money amd they would use you and any other girl they find to keep that money coming.


To my Young King's reading this don't have a girlfriend in your 20s please. Use that time to develop your self. Work hard to make yourself better as getting a girlfriend would really slow you dowm from attaining that top you want to go.

And last Please if you are too weak to move on or too tired to live again and you think suicide is your escape please speak out, yes some would laugh at you and call you names but speak out as there is that one person that would listen to you.



I LOVE YOU SHOLA AND REST IN PEACE
Your story is quite touching bro.

RIP to your sweetheart but what was the cause of her death?
BusinessRe: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by A305: 8:36am On Apr 06, 2020
dru23:
The only advice I will give you, if you are not ready to be hands on sell the cars .. If you are not ready to do all the maintenance 100% by yourself, sell the cars. If you are not ready for drivers to disappoint sell the cars.....

This is a tough business, know what you are getting yourself into .. Most drivers will disappoint you, and damage your cars and move on to the next victim.. And rental of 25k is very low , it shows you have no clue on what you are about to get yourself into .. At this rate you will not have enough put aside money for repairs ...Take it from me ,have been in the business for years ... A word is enough for the wise .......

Conclusion:: If you are not ready to do the things I mentioned above .. You are fooling yourself, and even if you are ready to do those things I mentioned above. You still face tough challenges...... Good luck
Well said and highly informative.

@phranco Mr Dru just did justice to your question and the part about giving out tok cars for 25k indicates you truly have no idea what you about to get yourself into - And even if you give out that same tok for 10k weekly rental, You will still be disappointed; you car will still be abused. Fact.

Start with 1 car instead of 3 to atleast learn the ropes, otherwise you might easily chicken out of the business from the different frustrating challenges the 3 might be throwing at you at the same time.

Understand drivers are human (prone to errors and afflicted with the same greed an investor has to rake in millions) and more importantly they are the backbone of this business; Never let a driver do key maintainance and repairs.
I call that "nonsense arrangement", No driver will ever maintain your car like the car belongs to him hence, they will likely manage the fault driving the car to the ground or buy substandard parts.

Lastly, I will advice you do hp if you don't have time to monitor/inspect your car while put on rental.
EducationRe: Meet The Unilag Student Who Writes With Both Hands by A305: 7:24pm On Apr 03, 2020
Maccarthy:
Using your left hand sends commands to the other side of the brain that is suppose to be recessive. Your thinking ability and motor neuron sensors are going to reduce drastically with time. Take it from me, someone who can also write with both hands but i've stopped for a long while. Goodluck
Lies! Most white people and even Obama write with the left hand,

Do you mean to tell me Obama's thinking ability and motor neuron sensors are reduced?
EducationRe: A Teacher Or A Doctor? Who Is More Important by A305: 10:30am On Apr 03, 2020
Crazy debate.

Doctor is more important because without teachers we won't have a doctor. WRONG!

The truth is a DOCTOR will always be important and indispensable part of the society otherwise the society will seize to exist! - Malaria is capable of wiping out a whole society without the help of a doctor.

The other question is; can we have a doctor without a teacher? YES!

Unless we don't language then being a doctor is impossible but since we have language, A doctor can learn by himself as he goes via experience of what worked the last time and what won't work. Everyone has an inherent tendency to learn from close observation or modelling so as an intending doctor.

To convince you and not to confuse you - A doctor will always advice you NEVER to self medicate because their are consequences - But a teacher will always encourage you to study and learn on your own to better yourself which means we can also do without their expertise.

So you see, A doctor is indispensable and more important than a teacher.
BusinessRe: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by A305:
AngryIgboMan:
I learnt a new thing here today. Thats the term "Hustling Backwards". I juxtaposed it with all my failed investments with banks and financial institutions and it just dawned on me further that this life is a scam. It has further reinforced my belief that every money I make henceforth will be spent on myself and myself alone. No more savings or further investments.

Let me explain what I discovered with the above quote

If someone has invested 800k last year for a 12% returns this year, if you juxtapose it with the current inflation rate viz a viz dollar and naira exchange rate, you will come to understand that you are hustling backwards. Theoretically and on paper, you are making money. But practically in the real world, you are loosing money.

What makes it worse is that these rogues called financial institutions use your so called investments and do real investments that pay well, pay you a fraction of the profit whilemake ill making you keep your so called "gains" with them which they will use for further investments that is still to their gain! I will use a story of what happened in an African country to explain this further.

A story has it that a very poor African country discovered some mineral resources in their country. They didnt know what to do with it. Eventually, they invited a Chinese Consortium to come and explore and handle it. They bargained prices and within 3 months, the Chinese consortium paid them off for the Mineral resources with money made from the sales of the Mineral resources!

This I believe is also what happens in Nigerian financial institutions. They feed you on imaginary tomorrow billions if you invest your hard earned money with them. What do they do with the money? They invest it in businesses which you yourself could have invested on. Then pay you a fraction of the profits.

Something else I find funny is the way people hype this "Invest for the future" of a thing.

Thats the reason why you see people do so many unethical things to survive. Brother will kill brother to sell his land and invest in the so called useless future. Fellow Citizen will manufacture chalk and mix it with chemicals to produce paracetamols for human consumption. Fellow human being will dismember a fellow human being for rituals all in a bid to secure the future.

Thats the real reason why we are where we are today. Everywhere so messed up. Bad news everywhere.
All because of Mindless capitalism without recourse to the natural law. Money Money Money. Future Future Future. What about Today Today Today?

Burna Boy Sang... Dangote Dangote Still dey find money oo. If I may ask, what is he still finding in this life especially in Nigeria where a vast majority of her people live below abject poverty.

As at today, he is worth over 10 billion USA FREAKING DOLLARS. Put into context, thats Three Trillion, Six Hundred and Seventy Billion Naira. Only 1 person! So many of you will praise this and call it God's blessings. But in an ideal world, what is one person doing with such wealth when others barely have a roof over there head?

Yesterday, I spoke about "What it really takes to survive and stay afloat" in business realistically speaking.

Do you know how many souls this man's trailers has sent to the great beyond to amass this kind of wealth? Do you know the enormous amount of blood that holds the horrendous foundation of this stupendous wealth? These are just bits of millions of examples of the horrors of the business world.

If I may ask finally, what guarantee do we even have for this so called future?

What if an asteroid from space wipes of the earth? What happens to all these stashed away monies in the banks?

What if Ocean water overuns the earth and that your land at Ajah and Ibeju Lekki goes underwater and becomes useless?

What if an alien civilisation takes over the earth tomorrow?

What if Corona Virus wipes of everyone eventually?

What happens to all those Treasury Bills, Bonds, Shares and Market Capitalizations?
ok Mr AIM

I know - you are known and carved a niche for being sentimental, paranoia with words towards situations you consider nostalgic but let me make your brain drift a little.

First off, The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you heck; it doesn't give a f uck if life exists in it - Same way, reality is savage.

In the real word, there is no such thing as good or bad but man happens to be the measurement of all things and they (man) make God a judge to weight in on the outcome (judgement day). Again in the real world, this God don't EXIST! - Never have - Never will!

Life is game and ain't no referee but human tries to carve a niche for God as the refree that oversees Earth.(That's dumb to a realist but pacifying to an optimist.)

Now let's get into the real world facts.

The world today is a scam and deceptively driven, Below are the bullet points of scams I would like to briefly write on:

*Bank
*Capitalism
*Government
*Religion
*Big business Corporation

These are all fraud interlinked with several web of intricacies to control the world; to control you and me.

Bank
It will interest you to know the inventors of modern day banking still controls the financial system world wide, they do this using the US federal reserve, IMF, UN and world bank so basically, we humans are being played by these guys.

I call them these guys because lately they don't have too much power in the world but they have huge influence and pull their strings using governments as tools behind the scenes. Go make your research to figure out the US federal reserve is actually a PRIVATE BUSINESS but all countries has their money reserve in the same bank treasury.

These guys captured the world before WW1 and had always played both sides of war throughout both World wars - They captured African and other third world countries using the MDG scheme and the bank system fraud is still ongoing.

Ghaddaffi tried to break Africans loose, they stopped life in him - Another was Saddam Hussein trying to free the middle East, he was also killed, Funny how they never get to kill the now late Fidel Castro regardless of how many times they tried.

I will end the bank mystery here because I can never exhaust all.


Capitalism

You Mr AIM talked about how the Nigeria financial institutions cheat investors - Guess what? That is actually the meaning of capitalism.

Capitalism and Democracy are not synonymous so the system will never work because it breeds cheating, selfishness and exploitation.

There will always be a social imbalance, this is why Karl Marx the philosopher said, when this imbalances in the capitalist economy starts to manifest, the citizens of these countries that practices capitalism along with democracy will have nothing to say or do but hope in an imaginary God/religion; as he puts it "Religion is the opium of the people."

Government

Government is working machinery of a form of bureaucracy, what this means is gorvernmet is a business.
I won't dwell much on this because everyone is always right whichever way they see it but Socrates was put to death for asking too much questions however before his death he was regarded as the wisest man that ever lived and here is one question he ask when he tried to make the people of Athens see how dumb they were for surpporting Democracy.

"If you have a ship on the sea with everyone on board and the ship is intending to capside due obstacles who would you call to rescue everyone on board the ship? Is it a trainned sailor or we all vote for one of us who is inexperienced to go steer the ship?"

This single question above led to Socrates death because he was trying to make the people see the flaw in democracy which the leaders at the time In Athens didn't like.


I wouldn't touch on the rest points but my reason for writing this long to you is because; I want make you understand the world has been corrupted long ago before your were born and every one is just a slave to the system put in place for man to survive.

Trying to go against the system is it for you to be faulted and regarded as an outlaw because in deed, man is born free but in chains all over him.

Chains of capitalism, Racism, Ethnicity, Classism, Sexism, Religion, Prejudice and stereotypes and many more.

So you need to read to know why things are as they are rather than letting your emotions get the best of you and in the process ruining your frequency flow of logic to solve problems or Stoic-tically accepting them.
BusinessRe: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by A305:
radautoworks:
Another response I thought about but didn't care enough to give. Chop knuckle jare
Gkakam!

I don chop am lol.
BusinessRe: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by A305: 7:01am On Apr 02, 2020
Heykayxx:
Not trying to take anything away from this great post, but I think the number of attempts at inventing the light bulb was 10,000.

https://www.businessinsider.com/thomas-edison-and-michael-jordan-were-failures-2010-9

https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2011/06/11/what-is-the-accurate-edison-quote-on-learning-from-failure/
messed up figure by me right there due to oversight.

Bravo
BusinessRe: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by A305:
Felicity0001:
To some large extent I really want to disagree to this notion of not going into a business one dont know anything about.

As a matter of concern, is there anyone that comes into this life with a particular knowledge? Even a genius came to this world with nothing. Albert Einstein tried 999times, meaning you need to try something new, while you proceed and advance from mistakes and lessons learnt.

If this notion is true then every successful business men and women today would have had a breakthrough immediately after starting their business and a minimum of 5yrs wouldnt have been stated for profit margin.

I would like to say more but let me stop here first.
I know this is irrelevant but I just want to feel intelligent for once.

It wasn't Albert Einstein that tried 999 times, Albert mistakes were minimal and were mostly discovered and corrected by his wife Meliva Maric, Infact, Einstein's wife was smarter than him, she did all the writing in theory for him and also helped solved most of the mathematical equations that arouse Albert Einstein's curiosity that will later lead him to make sense of it in the real world(using the universe) which he actually did sucessfully, hence, making Einstein the genius.

Nobody acknowledged or gave credit to his wife Meliva, All people knew was Albert the genius did everything.

When young Einstein got his fame from his new found genius status for outsmarting Newton's theory, he was getting invitation to give lectures in universities all over Europe, local man couldnt resist women, he loved women and had (hoes at every area code) in Europe, although women were naturally attracted to him due to his look and status.

This broke Meliva's heart and so their marriage couldn't work as Einstein fell out of love with her but she wouldn't agree to a divorce so guess what Einstein did.

Albert promised her his Noble prize award along with the money if she agrees to a divorce, She did agreed and when Einstein won the award, the award as well as all the money went to Meliva.

So man, the guy whom you actually referring to was Thomas Edison, Thomas was the guy who tried 999 times in attempt for an invention and made mistakes every time but the 1000th time was when he finally invented the light bulb.
BusinessRe: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by A305: 4:46pm On Apr 01, 2020
Lush100:
sir, which of the stanbic IBTC mutual funds?

because i have invested with stanbic Ibtc and i can categorically say that the investment projection you illustrated is not automatic.
infact from 2009(during the credit crunch,) the price came down never to go up again.

also b4 i could collect my cash, i had a rough time. ( though this was none of their fault just the TAT.)

the price goes up and down.

@ deedee44
You just said the price goes up and down.

This confirms the interest rate fluctuation I earlier hammered on.
BusinessRe: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by A305: 4:44pm On Apr 01, 2020
shollywendy1:
I know the rate at which ur money increases depends on how much you invested.
What matters to me is the security and the interest at the end.
You are very secured with Stanbic asset management.
BusinessRe: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by A305: 4:43pm On Apr 01, 2020
pope191:
Boss I love your financial analysis, but it all depend on what you are aiming at. Imaging making a profit of 200 thousand withing a space of a year with 1 million, while some folks will turn that 1 million to 2 million within the space of 8 months investing on land and other business. The business principle I learnt from my boss, is any business that yield beyond 30% profit within a space of a year is leaning on greed. I don't see mutual fund, treasure bills or fix deposit as business, but a safe zone to put away cash one actually don't need. I know of insurance policy you invest 500k and once you r 50 yrs old, they pay you 50k every month till d Mighty one yell cut, I think is under one of Aiico policies. What I am still trying to figure out here is 10/15/20 years from now, what will 50k monthly fill in ones life.

In-btw: if I've bought a dollar of 1 million at 310 and within the space of a month or 2 sell at 400 sometin, thats easy 300k profit in no time. Same goes for bitcon, if you know when to cash in and cash out. As for shares, I don't even want to hear that thing with my ears, outside few shares like Unilever, Nestlé, Guinness which other share is doing better in the hype filled stock market? All these criminals that scammed innocent citizens within the space of 2005/2007 where r deh today? Every public offers, from Transcorp, Daar communication, Intercontinental, UBA, BankPHB, GTB, Dangote Sugar, Japual Oil, Zenith, FCMB, FBN and more just ruin ppl life and use them to big up.

Imagine 500k fix deposit returns 515k in 3 months... U can get Honda civic of 750 and gross 600k in 3 months and still have same car intact, if you r d one driving d car. I'm not saying one should invest in transport business o.
Nice contribution bro

You just talked a great deal. I like your financial projection. Good one sir.
BusinessRe: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by A305:
NYCnextStop:
how much capital did you invest and for how long? How much interest did it yield?
Sir, you know am not about to divulge figures here because the internet is wild but I made good returns before the interest rate took a nose dive however it's still a reliable and safe method for passive investment.

Some folks throw in HUGE sum of money in mutual funds and never have a reason to lift a finger to work ever again and live off the interest from their investment.

Let me tell you one funny story.

One time, Otedola was being interviewed - he was asked, what motivated him to get into the oil business, his reply;

"One day, one of my daughters came back from school, she told me, every one in class was asked what their dad does for a living (what did you tell your teacher I do for living? Otedola asked ), I told my teacher you always stay at home, you a staying home dad."

Why was that?

That was because, Otedola was already a rich guy into real estate and had enough financial securities at the time so he didn't have no reason to go out often then.

That (his daughter response) prompted him to get into oil and gas.
BusinessRe: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by A305: 3:59pm On Apr 01, 2020
deedee44:
Please can you also highlight the risks involved? Especially in a worst case scenario
Thanks
Not a single risk, the only risk involved is you not investing - lol - Your money is safe with Stanbic ibtc; Even even the banking system crashes your money is still safe because you dealing with stanbic asset management and NOT stanbic bank, The Stanbic asset management is just a subsidiary of Stanbic ibtc.

When in need if cash, you can liquidate your investment and get back your money within 2 business working days.
BusinessRe: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by A305: 3:53pm On Apr 01, 2020
shollywendy1:
God bless u nitigriti and A305.
Like i adviced earlier on insurance mutual funds.
Seems from your break dwn analysis, i will need to enquire more about the stanbicIBTC policy.
Great idea bro
With Stanbic ibtc you are covered - You only just need to get their app to monitor your daily returns on investment as your money increases NOT much but good for no risk investment.

My first car on Uber was from part of my mutual funds investment.
BusinessRe: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by A305:
Babadee1900:
Cryptocurrency trading.
I have been doing this since I left school and frankly I can tell you, you leading him towards the wrong path.

I day trade and swing trade so I am talking from experience.
BusinessRe: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by A305: 2:05pm On Apr 01, 2020
Vision2045:
As you can see...I blacked out shares sir...and I didn't touch other financial securities sir ...am not opposing your advice...I only comment on one of the financial securities u mentioned sir
Absolutely, I see that. So technically we on the same page sir.

On the side note - Mutual funds interest percentage changes daily so it's funny how he could earn 1k on his 1M investment one day and earn 3k the next day or maybe more in this coronavirus era.

It all depends on the interest percentage.
BusinessRe: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by A305: 1:54pm On Apr 01, 2020
Vision2045:
Believe me this is not a great time to stock up shares....currently the figures is in decline and will remain so till first quarter of 2021.

Financial security isn't just "shares" sir. I did hammer more on mutual funds and Treasury bills.
BusinessRe: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by A305: 1:41pm On Apr 01, 2020
xana101:
I’m really thinking of business to do with like 800k to 1m. I’m seriously considering buying a naija used Toyota Corolla 2005 and put on rental at 25k weekly. Guys please do u think I’m ok. If I get a good driver do u think I’ll make my money. Thanks
Took me about 30 minutes contemplating whether to reply this or not because if it was that easy, you wouldn't even need any one's opinion who isn't an investment banker or broker.

You need to realize that, the kind of investment (financial risk) you willing to take will determine your returns; someone else somewhere might only need just 400k out your 1M to make 1Million plus within a year and another might need your whole 1M to make just 1.1Million within the frame of that samw 1 year.

What really matter is the risk involved, Now have you ever heard of the saying "The rich will always be rich and the poor will always be poor."

Why is that?

This is because the rich invest more in the money market mostly on financial securities such as Bonds, stocks, Mutual funds, Treasury bills, shares etc. Now most times, when the rich gets into some financial challenges , In most cases, his profit alone in the money market is enough to solve the challenge after he had invested for some time.

A poor/struggling person will start looking for loan or selling their properties in time of distress. This is why the rich will always be rich and the poor will always be poor/struggling.

If you not skilled or experienced to trade turning your capital into profit or you don't want to invest in the line of business (Ehailing) you currently in. Then your best option is Mutual funds by Either Stanbic Ibtc, Axa mansard or First bank.

When you invest in mutual funds, Go home and sleep; although the interest percent that determines your returns changes daily but one thing is sure your money is safe and you always making money while you sleeping - Even if the economy is crashing you can't loose your money.

Due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic making people to go haywire panic buying, selling and withdrawing - Ask me who are currently making money as I type this - Yes! You guessed right, Rich people because financial securities especially Mutual funds and Treasury bills interest will automatically be raised.

Landed property is another option but not viable enough sometimes due to some reasons such as location of property , Not easy to find buyer when your need money quickly and it takes years for it to appreciate.

So the ball is in your court and never forget your financial risk determines your profit.
Car TalkRe: Maintenance Tips On Cars. by A305: 6:59pm On Mar 28, 2020
GAZZUZZ:
Two ways, one copy parameters from another corolla without issues and adjust throttle pedal and throttle butterfly angles to those setting.

2 just replace throttle pedal and throttle body
Don't know how to go about this sir but I will clear code and if it comes back, I will bring the car to your place sir after the coronavirus lock down.

Thanks sir
Car TalkRe: Maintenance Tips On Cars. by A305: 6:21pm On Mar 28, 2020
GAZZUZZ:
The throttle pedal settings have been tampered with same with throttle body settings.
Thank you sir. I really appreciate your advice. How can it be corrected sir?
Car TalkRe: Maintenance Tips On Cars. by A305: 5:42pm On Mar 28, 2020
GAZZUZZ:
any issues presently?
No issues at all except it takes long for it to idle down to 1000 on start up unless I put on the ac. I notice a little bit of rough idle when it finally gets to 1000.
Car TalkRe: Maintenance Tips On Cars. by A305: 5:28pm On Mar 28, 2020
Baba Gee, I hail your government.

Please sir, I need your advise about this issue; it's an 06 corrolla, I recently cleaned my throttle body and discovered it threw 2 codes (P0123 and P2135) and maintenance required light came on aside from the regular check engine light.

My question is; will replacing the entire trottle body fix this or could it be a minor thing like replacing the throttle position sensor only.

Cc GAZZUZZ
CrimeRe: N/A by A305: 3:32pm On Mar 28, 2020
dru23:
I did my inspection with him . He complain and I address the issue. I warn him that I can't be fixing the same issues all the time .. The first month he drove for me ,I almost fired him. I was spending on repairs and my old mechanic had to warn him not to drive the car to certain roads, is excuse was uber blocked him and he can only do taxify and in order to meet up he has to driver bad roads etc ...
After spending 100k naira , two days later he got into an accident and they beat him up. And didnt hear from him . I ask him to come and pay plus is weekly rental.. He now came to nairaland looking for another victim.

So imagine the lies he will tell his next partner.. So people are just curse no matter how gud u are to them .
Pathetic, I think his demise was a good riddance except for that fact that he damaged and indebted to you.

I would advise you count your losses and let him go, It's his loss because I know for a fact not too many partners take care of their cars like you do - And regardless of what falls off the train, the train keeps moving, you moving ahead.
BusinessRe: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by A305: 3:17pm On Mar 28, 2020
jonaifame22:
pls could state your reason for this
A civic will withstand more abuse on the suspension system compared to a Honda city.
CrimeRe: N/A by A305: 3:14pm On Mar 28, 2020
dru23:
I keep telling investors and partners ,no matter how nice and fair you are to drivers, they will still mess up .. So this is why am tough at times . Have experience too many times ..

Can you imagine after fixing the car for him,spending over 100k naira, three days later he got into an accident that was his fault.. He got beat up for it and still has not paid his two weeks rental..

There is no person out there, whether driver or business associates that will say dru23 is a bad person or wicked person ..nobody out there will say dru23 stole or cheated him or her.. So when u try to be nice and reasonable it back fires .. ..

So no matter how you try to be fair and help people ,some cant be help . I even said even if rental is 10k weekly most will still not pay and give excuse.. And you can see that there is no drivers coming out to defend the driver now, none has come to his defence, because they know am right and fair
You stated nothing but the FACT and I can get behind that.

The method I use in curbing this mess is weekly inpection because even 3 days is enough for a driver to ruin a car - I have had my own fair share of the bitter pill by drivers so in my agreement, if you don't agree to weekly inspection am never giving you my car and it has been working for me.
BusinessRe: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by A305: 2:53pm On Mar 28, 2020
jonaifame22:
house please has the issue of the Lasdri permit been resolved, I plan on starting with my Honda city 2009 car soonest and please what good and pocket friendly iphone can you specify for use for navigation on uber
Go to a car dealer who has Honda civic available in his lot, Exchange your 09 Honda City with a 03 - 05 civic and pay a little sum.
CrimeRe: N/A by A305: 2:38pm On Mar 28, 2020
Duru9:
In my first comment I said any repairs above 7k will be shared 50/50 that's between driver and car owner

Had it been it's the condition between this op and his driver imagine the driver coughing out 50k next time he will be careful and more serious
atleast am glad you fully admit drivers has reponsibility to part payment aside that your 25k and 7k nonsense arrangement.

Now the question is if he (Dru's driver) could afford it to pay that 50% part payment, would he he have dropped the car and ran away?

Dru insisited he fixed the car, As a responsible person he would have begged Dru so they split the cost but No! - he dropped the car and ran away to come look for another car on Nairaland - And keep in mind, Dru also said the driver is owing him close to 60k. Will that kind of person afford part payment for a high cost repair?

So now what's your take on owners insisting on 30 to 35k so they carry out repairs themselves?
CrimeRe: N/A by A305: 2:16pm On Mar 28, 2020
Duru9:
I think you don't understand my view just shift please


If he place the car on 25k weekly remittance
While the driver take care of the car servicing and repairs

The driver will be more careful and won't driver rough because he know that if he spoils anything he will fix it

Read to understand next time
Have been given out cars to have understood the psychology of drivers especially your kind whom i call optimistic pessimist, you know why?

Most times, people like you look to the agreement to ruin owners cars. A driver can NEVER afford to maintain their partner's car like it's their own.

I don't think you can afford to buy full synthetic oil for oil change since it isn't your car or you just can't afford it but can afford the 4500 nonsense engine killer oil.

7k was the agreement for driver repairs right? Tell me, which panel peater will straighten and respray a scratch, dented or bruised car for 7k? Again that falls on the owner.

I'm yet to figure out any part you can buy for a corrolla that doesn't amount to 6 or 7k and you still will pay mechanic for labour cost. Isn't that more than 7k and another problem for owner to tackle?

Dru23 driver doesn't do any repair and I can never agree he got into that accident on purpose now what doesn't seem to make sense to me is you having to come back him up; talking about 25k and 7k repairs - You mean to tell me no Uber driver will ever ruin owner cars if they pay 25k and handle 7k repairs?
CrimeRe: N/A by A305: 1:31pm On Mar 28, 2020
chatinent:
How about you hire a trustworthy person?
All drivers are trustworthy until something goes wrong to take that trustworthiness out of them. That's my experience so far after given out cars to so many of them.
CrimeRe: N/A by A305: 1:29pm On Mar 28, 2020
Duru9:
Lol

Let me advise you sir


The agreement should always be driver remit 25k to you while he driver take care of servicing of the car and minor mechanical issues but any issue above 7k you both will split it 50/50
That's how we do it here in Abuja

I'm an bolt/uber driver too, my partner just collected my car because I told him I can't work this period

Secondly it depends on the kind of car oh I don't know how strong this Hyundai is and it's fuel consumption
And so you feel the need to speak for how owner partners to run their business?

If anyone chooses to give their car out for even a million naira on rental weekly, you have no right whatsoever to tell them how to run their business. It's their car and they have every right to make decisions with whomsoever is interested in partnering with them.

Go buy a car of 1.7M and give it out out on rental for 25k and when it gets damaged, sit back and don't lay no blame on the driver because the agreement indicates repairs above 7k is owners headache.
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