₦airaland Forum

BAZ001:
Watch and see Bubu will pre-record a video from Aso Rock and announce another 2weeks lockdown nation wide now, no more Lagos and Ogun and FCT.
Just wait by next week you will see

If anyone is expecting government to announce that everything is fine and y'all can get back to work,u are on a long thing.

Govt knows a total lockdown can't and won't work here, that's why there is partial relaxation unofficially. You need to see the growing numbers of people gradually trooping out.Even people are traveling interstate as we speak.

Our government has been irresponsible forever,not wanting to take responsibility for anything. They can't say u can go out cause everyone is really uncertain about the level of danger out there,they also can't say don't go out because they don't want to be responsible for your basic sustenance.

Govt is really neither here nor there on this coro matter,they can't even effectively secure your lives and properties this period.We are really in a mess in this country.

Me I have been going out and I see how unserious we are as a people.lets be wise and let's stay safe, it's soon gonna be all man for themselves.

Government

BAZ001:
Madam come and help, NCDC needs your expertise.
My concern is dt what is happening in New York might repeat itself in Lagos. ( the poor dying more of corona virus than the rich if it gets to d poor community) why
Because the poor believes it's rich man disease and that the number published by NCDC is audio numbers because politicians wants to eat money
And then they roam around the street playing about this virus.
My fear is that if it hits d poor in this our Nigeria, you will soon start hearing there is no more bed space , there is VIP bed somewhere which d poor won't have access because man know man or politicians go done put their people.
We've not tested 10,000 people and IDH yaba don full.
My prayer is dt lockdown shouldn't get to June

Have you heard the government is mulling another 2 weeks lockdown? What do you have to say about this?

As for me,I believe the lockdown can't and won't work here in naija

ofime123:
As at now no truck will carry your container for 200k even if it's not xmas season. Maybe you are talking of b4. But not now

Thought someone said false earlier!! Wonder why people will just make assertions without proper knowledge, isn't that bare faced lieing?

The person that told me about the 800k for trucks isn't even a truck owner but someone who hires trucks almost every week cos he is freight forwarder and we weren't even talking about investing in haulage business,we were just having casual gist about what's happening at the ports and the challenges they are facing including the massive corruption in that place.

Bros!! About your haulage matter, all I gotta say is plan well and understand the terrain well then commit it to God. There isn't any business without risk!!

Joke of a country,can u just imagine this nonsense!!

wealth25:
Nonsense question,,, you would have gone visit him when he was tested positive,,,..to know if he was truly positive.. mtcheeew!!

Audio infection!! Same way Seyi Makinde,bala Mohammed were also infected.Rubbish

With his audio infection,he can now claim is state is also affected by covid19, thereby claiming from the Bonanza. That's the game,u can be fooled but I refuse to

dru23:
Is the company based in Lagos ? Those are the type of people I want to learn more from....

Lol!! Lagos kwa,u want kill person.We don't have such organised business minds here and our system will shackle u down before you even start.

But it's not impossible though

dru23:
In the USA , since I speak facts only... in my state and I assume it applies for other states too ... there is a company conjunction with uber called GETAROUND .This company leases out cars for uber on weekly base. I think am not sure exactly the weekly lease is , I think it is $250 a week for uber...

A very good friend of mine uses them.. He tends to use them more often when his personal car is at the shop . So he goes through uber to get that rate of $250 rental .. He said the company leases 700 cars weekly for uber .. He said some people don't want to deal with using their own cars and putting high miles ,so they lease from the company for a week.. Others have car issues, and while their cars at the shop they lease from the company..

Keep in mind Yankee mechanics are not cheap at all ..so people prefer to just lease for uber.. But 700 cars weekly that is a lot...

That's what I was driving at. Rental business model isn't entirely bad and it's proven to work often times, I even know a company that rents out about 1500 cars.

Asides mechanical issues to the old cars we all use here and considering our peculiar environment which can be overcome by a sane, tactful,honest and hard-working mind.What i think the major impediment to wide range successes in this business is the wrong mindset many of us- partners and drivers bring into the trade.

Everyone by default will instinctually seek ways to exploit a system to their advantage if such opportunities arise.Many of us see e hailing as a gold Rush,others see it as a major means of livelihood,others are downright criminals.

The bottom line is many of us have the wrong attitude and are absolutely bad business people.

Was he infected in the first place?

ofime123:
The cash flow aspect is the more reason I don't think of leaving transport business. But I don't just like the ehailing is structure.

Note. There is good money in ehailing but I don't just feel like investing huge money in it. I prefer monitoring one truck than to monitor 4cars and driver wahala. And you make more money in haulage than ehailing. That my opinion though

I heard that hiring a truck from the port to anywhere in Lagos goes for as high as 800k presently? I was wowed

Moneystopnonsen:
Abeg who has bolt drivers account for sale

Hmmmm!

ofime123:
That very correct I have done this ehailing for a year now and I can say. That is okay if you are driving yourself.

If I wanted to invest 3 or 4 cars in this business I will have done that long ago. Haven said that am wotking towards going into haulaging next year. I just hope this pandemic shit is over as soon as possible.

I will I will be starting with one truck that can covey 20ft CONTAINER. AND strickly within lagos. This is what one of my inlaw is doing for 4 years now and his cashing out big time.

So I will like us to also look into this line of investment. Because breaking even with ehailing do not seem possible.

Every business has got it's peculiarities, same haulage that your inlaw is doing well at is same others have lost out,same ehailing many are complaining about is same others are doing well at with multiple cars.

Transportation business in naija is still one of the best passive income earner out there, even people managing okada or Keke still makes money.

You are better off in e hailing fleet business if you have other sources of income like a business or even paid employment. It shouldn't be your only source of income even with say 3 cars.The key thing is the cash flow it avails you and trust me ,there ain't too many businesses out there that guarantee that

P S* if properly managed of course!!

ndubuis:
Please do not take the advice of having two or three cars as the best way of making money. Having two or three cars in the unpredictable and dicey world of e-hailing in Nigeria is nothing but death-dealing. Kindly disregard it, it's a very naive advice.

Someone that has one car that he is managing and driving himself is going to be making more money than the guy with three cars, that sits on his ass and waits for 300k a month. That's a fact.

If you have more money to invest while you are on your one car hustle, please diversify into other businesses. Having two or three cars in this business does not guarantee more income, looking at all variables and heartaches. Take my word for it.

With the contemporary e hailing business model in Nigeria. You are partially right.However I feel many of us are doing it the wrong way.

There are also car rental companies abroad that people use for e hailing and it works but here the reverse seems to be the case.

Openbusiness:
In other words the government is dumb and stupid for taking an approach of levity from the beginning. By the time they spend all the national budget money for 2020, 2021, 2023 to 2030 together combined to fight Coronavirus in 2020 alone, they will wake up from their stupidity. 14 days lockdown so far was a waste. The current 14 days lockdown we are in will be another waste because the fucking GOVT lacks people with sound critical thinking ideas that can curb the spread. If I was the governor of LASG , I would do a better job 100000% than what we have now. You can't just shut down without testing, they should have bought at least like 100 million test kits, distribute it like 2 million per LGA and LCDA, then enforce a lockdown. Have LGA testing units go out and test people from house to house, collate the results, then you know the areas that has a high rate of Coronavirus and those that don't. Then you shutdown those areas within the lockdown, nobody goes in or out. Other areas with no cases are opened up and people continue living their lives but with safety guidelines of no mass congregation, compulsory facemasks or ppe when going out to work or anywhere, social distancing, no public transport allowed, only government transport (BRT etc) so that they can enforce and monitor the social distancing compliance when people are going from one place to another, while the state remains on lockdown from international and local travels, nobody is allowed to enter Lagos without going through a 14 days quarantine at a govt isolation center. Then those areas that you have shutdown under the lockdown, you concentrate on distributing relief materials and money to the people there. The infected ones will be evacuated to the isolation center for treatment, and mass decontamination of public spaces, houses and homes within those areas are carried out. You treat the State as if it's a computer programme and you execute it in clusters. Like you are doing programming up to down and down to up, YOU CONQUER THIS VIRUS BY RUNNING LIKE AN INTERPRETER THAT TAKE THE CODES LINE BY LINE, LOCATION BY LOCATION, YOU CAN'T DEFEAT IT BY ACTING LIKE A COMPILER THAT WANTS TO RUN THE CODE AT ONCE. That's what they are doing now and guess what? SYNTAX ERROR everywhere. Over 300 cases in Lagos now and the government is still sleeping

They know what they are doing,it's all still a game to them,I just hope it doesn't backfire soon. I totally agree with you that the lockdown is absolutely unnecessary and a bloody waste of time.

They had the chance to have quarantined compulsory all those coming into the country which would have been cheaper than what we have now.

They had the chance to ramp up capacity of PHCs to enable them carry out testing so as to cover a wider range of the populace

They had the chance to provide palliatives for the vast number of vulnerable person's so as to enable it by manage the lockdown they imposed

But what do we have, ineptitude,politics and self aggrandizement everywhere

yusufyo:
Now some fools have started blaming the government. They couldn't appreciate the government when it was trying to confine people in their homes now it has gone out of hand and everyone is trying to change the narrations.

Will you stop this already. Govt is to be blamed from A-Z on this. You hurriedly imposed an I'll thought out lockdown without considering the welfare of the people.

Common palliatives is heavily mismanaged and overtly politicised.

See how long it's taking them to establish test centers

Despite billions spent u still have no major upgrading of existing sub standard hospitals

Many can also see through the propaganda of the government as the narrative is far more erroneous than reality.

Don't blame the people,blame our rudderless leadership.

Well done to our gallant soldiers!! But me nah only 5 bodies I see o and just 1 gun truck

Even abacha still has his symphatisers despite his ills,so does Adolf Hitler,the devil himself also would get his own adulations if he were to drop dead today.

Bye bye Mr Kyari,u lost your chance forever

Bunch of dim wits!!

radautoworks:
Okay. I stick with my recommendation of living amongst them and visiting the museum and Elmina before holding such strong views.

FYI at least here in Houston, Nigerian men are targeted by the women for immigration scam because they spend oodles of money on foreign women.

The Nigerian man will pay whatever amount to get that foreign residency as it's a pivot for him to access better opportunities. Juxtapose that Nigerian with the American man 5 to 10 years down the line,then tell me who would be better off.

One had foresight and seized it,the other will remain indolent and would never break a sweat to change his status.

radautoworks:
To learn more. And your didn't answer if you have lived among African Americans before you formed this very strong position about them.

Nope!! But I have interacted with a couple of them and still have some as friends.

A female friend-AA once told me how she loved Nigerian men because we are highly intelligent and industrious people who still finds a way to break barriers despite our huge disadvantaged circumstances compared to her compatriots who mostly often would rather just sit back and complain about their own problems.

Barrack Obama or Condoleeza Rice were different in ideology from say Jesse Jackson,thus underlining their success over him.

radautoworks:
OMG. I have to ask. Have you lived among African Americans before?

Please plan a visit here the first chance you get
https://nmaahc.si.edu/

Also, if you haven't, visit Elmina Castle in Ghana.

To learn more or to unlearn my views? Pls What are you driving at exactly?

radautoworks:
Okay. Let's agree with this statement. Then Biafrans and those in the Delta basin should stop playing the victim as a defense for their self inflicted fails.

I think the circumstances are different. The Biafra question in itself is a self recognition problem which isn't directly in the hands of it's nationals and not manifestly tied to their fundamental existence and life choices. Thereby making them one of the most ingenious and naturally industrious nationalities on Earth.

The African American dilemma is rather circumstantially ideological. Many have been brainwashed with the mentality that they are victims of inequality,and they are naturally ordained runt of the litter by natural selection.

Their self defeatist stereotypical mentality degenerate as it is becomes a norm to them. They blame every one else but themselves with their delusional self entitlement myopia.

sexylassie:
you can not compare ebola and corona virus, obama didnt face any crisis compared with corono virus, how many Americans contacted ebola?, ebola wasn't a national emergency like corona virus.

There was only 11 cases of ebola in the united states

How did trump brought about health issues of African Americans when the Affordable Care Act aka Obama care is still law.

How is it trump fault when States control their own insurance markets, run their Medicaid and CHIP programs and state employee plans?

How is Trump like African dictators when the US is a democracy and federation.

everything is about what the white man did to black man but nobody talks about the millions of blacks in the US that are now middle class and upper class, millions of blacks that are educated and made something out of their lives.

I am tired of the racism, poverty and discrimination stories, anybody can leave the ghetto if they want

I must confess,I do agree with you on this. The racism card I think it's really being overplayed. The majority black population in the US will always play the victim card as a defense for their self inflicted failures.

The ethnic chauvinism in naija worse pass racism for Yankee wey people dey yapp about on here

Lies from the pit of hell. How's that even possible in a northern state for that matter, wasn't it same Northern Governors forum that declared they were not going to enforce total lockdown in their region.

All these government guys know is propaganda and nothing else

I am not an expert in lab science but I am cocksure this is utter rubbish from the govt and will not be useful to the generality of the population.

All to chop money! Nothing is bourne out of genuine altruism

kponkedenge:
Forget about this story.

I just want to point out that this lock down is just rubbish. People are still travelling from state to state. I know of someone who returned to Lagos from Ilorin on Sunday, he said their driver bribed the security personnel on the highway so as to pass through.

Corruption is what will end up being our greatest killer in this country.... The police and soldiers has turned this lock down into a money making venture as they charge motorist various amount of money to pass.

Welcome to reality! If u are just realizing that lockdown can't work in naija and that there are more lies than truth about Covid-19 naija chapter then I must confess that u re quite easy to deceive.

miqos02:
see how the money will be spent

I don't think he was particularly referring to the EU grant. Nigerian government has a huge reputation for mismanaging public funds.

We all know how the national treasury would have been badly battered by the time we are done with coro!!

miqos02:
which money? How much can nigeria get that will offset the losses of banks, state and federal government agencies? You are exposed , don't talk like illiterates

He doesn't mean more money to Nigeria but More money to the officials handling this. You can already see how much they are claiming to have spent on providing palliative to the people.

northbird:
Well, just like any capitalist driven corporation, they (Uber n Bolt) don't care about you, as long as the bottomline is intact.

Any body on UBER/BOLT is on a DAILY CONTRACT. Cos you can be yanked off any moment.

So the onus lies on the driver/partner esp dose who run it full tym, to think of an EXIT strategy.

And shdnt be carried away by the allure of daily / weekly payouts.

That's the problem with people,false sense of entitlement beclouds their sense of judgement by refusing to face reality.

My brother,u r over correct sir. UBER/BOLT business model isn't designed to be a life long job. There is free entry and exit,u r not under their employ.

dckng16:
Nairabet donated N50 million to their workers Nationwide as palliative. At least each agent would get 25k for sustainance. What are our employer Uber and Bolt doing? Nothing! They are all waiting for d pandemic to be Over so that they can start using us to make money for themselves with cheap peanut fares. This shows how insensitive they are in difficult times like this. in America Uber eats is giving out 24million foods to cushion the effect of what people are going through. I pity the drivers that don't have enough savings to feed. This country has a long way to go. We lack selfless leaders and people

Uber has never declared any profit since it was started. Guy !! the earliest u realise they owe u nada, the better for u.

Uber/ bolt business model was never designed to be a fool time job. If u think u will secure ur future with this job, u better think twice.A word is enough for.........!!

SaintHilary:
UBER/BOLT are not your employers

Uber has never declared any profit since it was started. Guy !! the earliest u realise they owe u nada, the better for u.

Uber/ bolt business model was never designed to be a fool time job. If u think u will secure ur future with this job, u better think twice.A word is enough for.........!!

maasoap:
Just protect yourself and your family, all this doubting won't do you any good. That's one.

Two: most of these guys that were tested in Osun state were not seriously sick, just that virus was in their system. They didn't require serious medical help, most of them could be described as asymptomatic patients. And all of them contracted the virus around the same time, probably in their buses. That's why their healing was almost around the same time.
You said 50% healing not recorded even in Lagos? Just listen to yourself! Almost 200 cases in Lagos and just 20 in Osun state and you want their discharge percentage to be around the same rate!
Again, most of the Lagos reported cases are recent, discovering over 10 cases almost everyday. When Osun haven't discovered any in the last 12 days!
Again, some cases in Lagos were being discovered too late or almost too late. Like the one in the link below:

https://www.facebook.com/NC.AYAFOR1/videos/652102335583197/?app=fbl

The 67 returnees being quarantined in Lagos right now have almost 58 Osun indigenes among them. Few that will tested positive among them would have pushed Osun figures a bit higher but that's Lagos state problem for now.
My conclusion: in Nigeria, like play like play, the figure is increasing everyday. Whether it is a lie as some of you would want to believe or it is the truth as some of us believe. The truth is that if care is not taken, it might get to a stage where it will be audible to a deaf and clear to the blind. At that point, even corpse won't see people evacuating it on the streets. If that's what you guys will prefer to see before believing this shiit is here with us, I will say, just brace yourself up

You keep eroding the fact that I never said covid19 isn't in naija.


. It's really real no doubt but I will tell you for a fact that there are more lies than truth about it in our own country.

Check out Bauchi, a state that even the number 1 citizen claimed to have had the virus could not even bother to lockdown his state. Your guess is as good as mine that he knows that it isn't as serious as our government wants us to believe.

Same as katsina where mosques have been opened for prayers despite also earlier claiming they had a confirmed case.

My point is, an alternative to a lockdown should have been sought, people are really suffering and the ripple effects are beginning to manifest.

Focus more on sensitising the people on protecting themselves and practice social distancing,they can make laws on masks and gloves or even vehicles or buildings should not be crammed as it's done in Sweden, Taiwan and even China.Let people go out, coro isn't going to go away any time soon!!

Amossity:
till NCDC include it on their index table befor we believe d shit... a runmor was also on early dis week concerning a case at sabon gari part of the state but was lata debunked

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Health / Re: 600-Bed Sani Abacha Stadium Isolation Center In Kano (Photos) by Bigleaf1006: 8:03am On Apr 07
Oya Ganduje, u too can start rolling out audio figures of infected cases cool
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This was my post somedays back when he was inspecting the isolation center built for covid19