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Hmmm.the host tribe people mocking other sets and tribes in Lagos are the ones in disparity now. We ronu this we ronu that. Go back to your region and all of that. See the way the system and nature is threatening and treating them mostly. They're still crying ebin mpa wa and lamentations on their lips all day
. The hardship is still confusing them. Now they're being expunged off from their dirty shanties.

And we all knows the tribe dominating those places. It's really too much for them.


Election indeed has consequences. No more go back to your region again.😄

Acidosis:
The funny thing about this write-up is that you seem to know all the risks involved with driving a taxi in Nigeria, yet you ignore your own safety just to evade paying a 30% commission.

Why should I fight for you and other riders when you clearly don't value your own life because of 30%?

Nothing I say here will change your mind, I guess, but I hope you don't learn the hard way. Simple words like "digital footprint" exist for a reason.

If I am embarking on a trip from Berger to Ajah and you tell me to go offline before leaving my location, how will such save me as a rider? How will such dubious "one chance" attitude help the security agencies if things go wrong with you? You're literally going offline without traces (probably the same as shutting off your phone) so no one can trace your movement. Is that what you compare with a digital device with live location?

You want me to go offline in Berger so if I get kidnapped in Ikeja, Bolt can assume I arrived at my destination safely or never embarked on the trip at all? Make it make sense.

Since that map you signed up for has no value to you, I have advised and will advise again to go join conventional taxi drivers. They clearly don't need it, but you know what? That levy you don't want to pay, you will pay double to NURTW and the park Chairman.

You're still replying on something you're not clear about. Listen again. As a platform driver there's no single security for me, non whatsoever so to say I would be bypassing 30% commission to the detriment of my safety is non existent. A driver has no single shield or security driving taxi in any platform. Even if I was hacked to death in any corner of the state. Nothing can be done to find my killers and that's just the truth, I wasn't expecting any security agencies to find them cos they won't find them. So as a driver going offline can not be against my security because both the online and offline is useless to my security. The riders only requirement to kill or rob me is just a prepared dubious phone number and a nickname. So who will find them?. Nobody.




If I kidnap you on my ride. I will still edit destination to wher I Ended the trip and still use your phone to request other drivers


Being on my car doesn't mean you can't change ur destination or end or go to anywhere you like, nothing concern me. So I would have no business with your whereabouts. Even if you want to jump into lagoon. No problem, after you jumped I'll still end the trip there and move on. So sharing a ride with me has nothing to do with your security In Lagos. No be bolt drivers carry you come Lagos. Even if I drop you where people you went to visit kills you, it will never consign me. Bring your case come up. Nothing will happen





Is laughable how a total stranger who's untraceable and can get away with anything with enter your car , sit dangerously at the back with bag that could contain weapons only to start suspecting a driver who has all his ID and details all in the app.
In the name of what exactly?

Mr man Nobody is your security in this life or Lagos.
A driver that's no secured na em you want dey carry ur security wan put for em body. Na you go loose. If you put a destination of berger and got killed or kidnap at gbagada nothing concerns the driver. Same way you can put berger as destination and decided to stop at gbagada. . Nothing concerns a taxi driver with your safety.
You'll bring best SANs and still loose the case

Acidosis:
I have made my point; so always ensure you check people's profiles very well before asking them to go offline. Try that with me, and you'll be tagged a potential ritualist. We'll both have to stay online and monitor my destination together. If you want to ride offline, go and register your car with a state taxi council.

You're not the only freelancer paying commission to a platform. You don't want to pay commission but wants the privileges of the platform? How does that make sense please? Go and ask freelancers and upwork workers and employers how much they pay per gig.

The crazy examples you're citing aren't any different. Before Bolt, conventional taxi riders pay commission to their owners and levies. The bottlenecks, registrations, and the known faces make them relatively safe.

With bolt, you can't risk my life because you want to cash out. You're not doing me any "huge favour" by choosing to drive offline.

And please quit the cheap lies. I frequent the bolt rider thread on NL and I saw firsthand how you people were rejoicing for making huge money after Bolt increased passenger fares by over 50-100% before Christmas. Who wouldn't rejoice seeing how Bolt billed riders 15-18k within Lagos state??

Na only una sabi complain, yeah? If you think it is easy to cough out 8k from Ojodu Berber to Ikeja, go and dump your car and try to be a rider for once. Staying online is for your own safety too.

What safety are you talking about. Bolt has any police on the road? abi bolt is the man on the steering or its online bolt that will stop you from having accident?. Can you highlight any usefulness of online bolt if not to eat their commission?. Thing is what you don't know you won't understand it .

Ordering a trip online doesn't stop you to screenshot the drivers plate number. That's all the security that is needed. Going online doesn't secure you. . If I drive you nd Purge you off at the lagoon, we're all gone. No be online dey drive you. Your utmost safety is from the drivers ability to take you to destination without involving in accident.



Going offline doesn't stop you from reporting any bad experience with bolt or reporting to security agencies. There's always details of trips both cancelled or successful. So don't assume offline means no trace.


Only security you have is to snap or share driver info on ur app before he goes offline. And more over, can you highlight or tell the online community how many reported or broadcasted theft from bolt drivers and at the same time show us uncountable number of car hijacked and death of drivers which police has successfully convicted or caught.




Between you and a bolt driver, he should be the one scared . But every driver knows there's no single security for them. They don't ask for more, it's taxi business and so..



It takes a drivers full ID and particulars to drive on those platforms while it takes a passenger just a fake phone number to order ride in other to kill, thief or kidnap a driver. So who should be afraid of offline again?


If I meet you and ask you to pay me what ever that's on your screen for offline and you refuse. I'll just evict you, you can look for who would be running slave and rat race on bolt with your insecurities


All the deaths and car theft of bolt drivers in Lagos, have you render any voice for bolt to atleast profile there passengers to reduce evil attacks on the innocent drivers.



Whatever thing that could go bad with you on bolt, there's nothing bolt can do for you if not to ask you to tell police to write or meet them for them to release the drivers ID on there disposable. That's all, police can use it to do whatever they can.online Bolt will not stop you from the evil waiting for you.



Even if a driver cancels your ride, you can still see the ride history on ur app nd contact bolt from there. So going online has no meaning and isn't your security.


If I have bad intentions against you, I will still do it online. I'll kill you or kidnap you and still end the trip, use your phone to make series of request just to exonerate myself as the last person who carried you. So nobody is your security Mr man

westlius:
This one you will b praying for long distances. What you should knw is you can do this 1,500 -2300 rides offline and make quiet money.
And pls also use INDRIVE
I heard they don't charge drivers commission yet

Chief from experience. You'll never make anything from short trips on bolt. Each time you on your car engine. Almost a litre of fuel goes down and running around inside street for 1500 or 2k. Before you can reach 20k, about 10k fuel is gone and you're on reserve. It never pays drivers in Lagos talk more of ph



The only single way you can make a small gain on bolt is do trips on surge,do such trips on offline. Aside it , your only doing turn over for filling stations and bolt.

Imagine using your car on a 5k fuel for a trip of 50mins 20km. Bolt will ask you to collect 4800, they will will give 3800# and collect 1200#.

So inside this 3800 you've bought fuel of 5k for this trip and based on current situation. This fuel is already on reserve and you car reserve light is showing.

You've used 5k investment on fuel to make 3800 . A lost of 1200. That's how the business is.

You'll buy fuel of 10k run around the whole state taking life risk. You make 20k, bolt will collect 5k as commission, fuel will collect it's 10k bck and you're left with 5k. For food, car problem and maintenance and your family responsibilities as a family man. Monkey dey work baboon dey chop

Acidosis:
See another terrible recommendation. Why are bolt drivers always finding new ways to defraud their riders and employers?

Any rider that agrees to this offline deal should just keep some millions aside for ransom. You people are evil minded or probably just ignorant.

How can any sane bolt driver propose offline in today's Nigeria?

Who's this person. What did you know about bolt and it's driver partners. You people with your reasoning always jump on discussions you knew nothing of.
Do you know any driver that ask you of offline is taking the risk of his life and car and at the same time doing you a serious favour, he has to agree on a fee which is likely underpaid compared to what the end fare could have been.

And who is your employer you used in this context. Who told you bolt employs a driver. They only had partnership which bolt had sworn to take a ridiculous 25% and amidst the economic issues, they're not backing down and decided to increase fares and reduce at will without carrying the partner driver along. What do you call such dubious and selfish partnership?

Do you have car and if you have do you really know what to means to buy fuel for 600# per litre, buy car worth millions, spend heavily to maintain it as the cars are private car and weren't made for public transportation. Spends so much on the law enforcement extortions and at the end, spend 25% of every trip embarked on.



And in terms of security. Who do you think is at risk? a known driver who has all his ID and car original particulars on the app or an unknown passenger who only provides a fake phone number and nickname.


And who made you a judge in a business you knew nothing of ?. All over the world before bolt began was there not a taxi on the road? Aside bolt is there still no taxi and all ur life how many times have you asked a taxi man on the road for his ID before he carries you. Or buses you jump in.



If you have a car ,go and use it on bolt. They are ready to welcome you a honest investor

Sirchiboy:
Last week I started bolt with fuel of 25k.
After all the drive.
My net income after bolt commissions was 20k.
I lost 5k.
On Sunday I bought fuel of 30k and the thing had enter reserve already and my net income after bolt commission is 26k.
Losing 4k already.
I think I have to give up

Stop doing short trips. That's what's burning ur gas nd bolt commission. Aim for long trips above 5k. It would conserve fuel nd you have chances of picking another long trip to nd flo. In such cases you can easily negotiate offline. It's just easier to negotiate offline for 5k above trips than telling ur rider for offline on a trip of 2100#. It's nonsense nah. Wen you do short online trips. Ur fuel nd commission is burning but when you do long trip . You can bypass commission by offline

westlius:
Bro in Ph always park at these locations.
Peperoni by Rumudara
Kilimanjaro by Agip
Spar by govt House
Pleasure Park by bori camp
Then at Night go to GRA any nice bar/club

It doesn't work like that. Going to popular places or eatery will not pay him off . He's best bet is to calm down and wait for requests on residential areas nd rich neighborhoods. Once he picks passengers from there to long locations, he would wait also and pray another long distance trip back to base comes up.


Most eateries are patronized by close by residents. Which would burn his fuel and left him on lost if he constantly picks short trips. Imagine starting your car to be running pick up nd drop off for 1500,2300# nd such. Thereafter he will still pay commission.

ednut1:
The Eko Atlantic wall barrier has reduced that beach to stagnant water. People who swim there need their head examined

You have a point. That wall has messed the beach up. A full pond water

Edit your heading chief . It's Oniru beach has lost its glory. Palace area Boys and touts had finished oniru beach. Only unsuspecting individuals still goes there and they normally comes out with regrets. The traffic on landmark and good beach is only indicator that Nigerians had moved on from that beach.

A dirty nd filthy beach you can't access with your car without been taxed for individual head nd car park. Nd your cab can't even drive in to pick or drop you. Whereas other beaches got free car park nd sorts.


Look at the festivities going on. Oniru beach couldn't even attract ordinary friends get together. While other beaches are shutting down with celebs every day.

Lame format. Bike this bike that yeyeyeye.

Oga use your head and find something doing. Go and learn barbing, call your family to assist you get barbers tools and start from somewhere. Even aboki boys do make a lot of Money going from street to street with rechargeable clippers.

People wey train you for school no go allow you begin ride bike inside poor Oyo community.

Sharp sharp you don go cook up emotional lamba waiting for cashout from unsuspecting victims.


You will soon go nd be snapping bad bikes just to justify people asking you for pics.


Car just jammed you, then you come out of the hospital and then you need money. Who took you to the hospital and who paid for the treatment?
Piam they took you to the hospital, next they don treat you finish, feed you and then discharge you ba? You're now in the UK. They don begin treat accident victims free of charge with good food from good nurses in oyo ba?



Your family didn't come to that hospital to bundle you back to your family house after your where discharge ba?


You claim to had a major accident, and same you needed money to pay for the bike rentals and repair. Ogbeni you don recover already?


It's it not noble for you to call the owner to carry his bike while you go back to your family to recover and for proper treatment.


Ndi uchu

Make una shut up. Useless Propagandist . On which forex rate did they import it for the price to come down ni?

Her poor judgement and instincts made her miss the first car that would have taken her to her destination. I too know na em wan kill her. The ones she called poor people don obtain her. Fish brain beings. You're poor, can't order ride and can't drive yourself yet you classify all taxi as poor people that can't buy new cars.

Even politicians drivers are using bullet proof land cruisers to pick along when on errands here in Lagos

A dreamer. Which big school would you even have access to the parents or guardians dropping off their wards talk more of interacting with them. Schools where the principals and senior female teachers usually line up to warm welcome the kids every morning. You think male teachers dey receive students ni?.

Erick ken don marry wife

As earlier reported
https://www.nairaland.com/7911189/old-naira-notes-remain-legal#126970939


As the subject ask, very curious to know what has kept us balanced and in heavy use of the old note upon the past chaos the whole naira replacement brought to us. The process was halted and extended towards end of the year as at then to enable a smooth transition.

But instead of the CBN to comfortably fizzle out the notes without affecting masses and what happened the last attempt, they stalled the whole process and maybe someday they would come up and give Nigerians a month ultimatum for a fresh chaos. After all the resources wasted for the naira replacement for the nations interested, politicians has hijacked and stalled the process. Elections are over, please I asked, what next to old notes replacement?

nedu666:
Stupid man. You killed 2 people because you are running from lastma. Lastma that las las you will settle with nkwobi and cold beer

Stupid comment. Guess you don live or drive in Lagos. Go and settle them with nkwobi and cold beer nah. Upon the economic pain and agony everybody is facing, nothing will make you pay less than 50k to this demons. The way things are going on, of you're in Lagos always be observant on the road especially when lasma is around or operates on same road. Make you no become manslaughter victim.i myself after what I've been through from this people will kill anything killable to have my way from this demons. So do any motorist that had been there victim

Angelfrost:
If truly he was trying to evade LASTMA, then he deserves to go to jail...!

I was in a bus that drove dangerously trying to evade the traffic police in that Lagos... Na God save person that day. Death stared me in the face.

On top wetin??! On top how much fine??!... Which fine big pass attempted murder, Manslaughter, or fatal accident??!

Nigerian drivers, make una dey use common sense always. Smh!

Pray to own and drive in Lagos. Either commercial or private. You'll understand while some drivers including me can either kill someone than be caught by this state backed evil demons on uniform. Upon the economic hardship, go to lasma lots or festac lasma lots and see people fathers crying like small children begging to atleast allowed to pay any amount they could gather. How can you forcefully arrest danfo and collect 70k from him. A struggling poor man.Don't you think it's a suicide mission when next he sights you?

After paying through my nose. I've resolved to either kill anybody in my front whether intentional or my mistake. I'll never be caught on this pains again. A week ago I blocked @ ago palace when I pull over in a safe corner to urinate. After all the pain nd heartbreak I had to borrow nd pay 70k. What wickedness pass this?. Motorist in Lagos are in pains from this demons . More manslaughter to be recorded

Godfullsam:
Igbo men don't avoid yoruba women, it is the other way round. Women will come for you when they know you have what it takes to take good care of them and their children. The last thing they consider is tribe.

You can see how yoruba men are Marrying your ladies every week. They are picking the best among your girls, leaving the ugly and worn-out remnants for your men.

It is because your ladies see yoruba men as more capable men compared to your men. It has nothing to do with tribe.
Paternity fraud cut across all tribes and race but Tribalism won't let you think/see beyond your nose.
The recent one that happened in my area involved as Igbo couple.

Oh really. You described the other way round?.
All the rich men of your tribe are simping and sacrificing to have an Igbo beautiful bride. But are you people no worried why your ladies don't attract igbos, even the broke men amongst them don't still find Yoruba ladies beautiful enough to manage?. High infidelity upon ugliness, this too much for a tribe.

Your rich tribal men( cos the poor or average Yoruba can't even marry Igbo ladies or the ladies accepting their proposals) sees it as a secured future and achievement marrying igbos so they can have good looking offspring and fair genes. while Igbo men on a platter of gold nd wealth will still find it very hard marrying your ladies. Even the broke men amongst them

This is deep.


Even the ones in brothels still find it hard attracting Igbo customers . Just a few mins pressure they still don't look attractive to igbos. No nah.
Go to lekki Lagos and see how Yoruba guys are spending heavily patronizing the Igbo beautiful runs girls. They just wan to get laid to those fair nd sexy ladies, it's a thing of fantasy, am yet to see same traffic or heavy spending from Igbo men on indigenous Yoruba street ladies.. taa


Bleaching cream became popular in your region just because of igbos still, the bleached ones are even the worst

BRATISLAVA:
You sound arrogant in ignorance. What car has legs? I'm sure you haven't been in a car since the day you were born in 2000.

A poor and arrogant little thing. Car legs are the ball joints,bearings,lower arms, tire rods, stabilizer bushings nd sorts. It's called leg cos it's components that hold tyres. Decided to lecture you, beside my son will be 12 yrs next week. You could be his mate. Decided to help you abit with reply. Uncouth thing. You can feel good now. Faceless forum I blamed. I might be replying an agama lizard looking tiny thing anyway

BRATISLAVA:
A car has legs? What sort of car is this?

Of course you have this complaint if your technician tells you that your car has legs in need of fixing. Legs.

Guess you hadn't driven a car before talk more of owing one. You would have known what it means to say car legs. That terminology really pass you. You'll know someday. Keep hustling

They are only importing based on market demand and affordability. On this high forex rate, who can even afford the inferior standard again. Tokumbo parts is just the last hope.

Nigerians always goes and believed they are wise in pricing, when you import high standard and quality parts and customers keeps using you to price and buys from other fake parts sellers thinking you're ripping them off, you'll explain tire with no evidence. You just have to blame yourself and count your lost, import what they can afford and make your money.

Meanwhile in auto parts is very rare getting a standard original parts as companies that produces the cars hardly mass produce spare parts from same plant to match its replacements and market demands, so Chinese has to take over the industry to block some gaps,

We should be happy to even see the new parts at all. Atleast you have hope of changing some original parts with new lookalike parts.

Original is original. Replacement is replacement just so you can still like and manage your car

Chinese people and their new parts are the reason some cars have second hand value.

Ikaeniyan0:
Traffic have really reduce in Lagos state since petrol price was increase

Which of the traffic has really reduced? When almost all access roads are dilapidated and in worst states. What happened between mainland nd island traffic situation was the reopening of eko bridge, aside this it was a nightmare from any connections away from the two long island/mainland bridges. Try to go sangotedo from vi or join any mainland towns off 3rd mainland bridge.

As if they can even access the guys estate.mad bloggers

Just two. those boys on that label are really strong headed. How they abuse drugs you'd think all of them might run mad at once.

Stupid people. Tell Nigerians the two mad people and how you escaped been mad by drug abuse also. You're lucky. I use to think these guys mostly smokes on screen just for big boys thing not until I observed zinolesky on several counts on de estate. Every time my eyes sets on dis dude he's on smoke even when not on cam.

Reflect7:
You are talking illiterate rubbish.

Shut up.

What do you know rather than insults. Possibly typing from a hurt in ogbomosho. A driver who plies and knows a road well enough is making a concerned comment. There you are insulting. It's really a faceless forum both for idioots and humans

Its a good development. But laughable by the promoters of this train transits.the new Lagos badagry express way always looks like a serious waste of resources considering the road users plying the road. 95% of which are commercial buses. (Danfo and korope). Plying unguarded one way and sorts.

Now a train has been introduced to same route and road, 250k passengers per day they said. Lol. It's really about people confusing people. Govt jobers won't tell the government the truth.

The train fare still way high above korope and danfo fares. Atleast mc oluomo people really confused the govt to hike their price more than commercial buses, this way their customers are not tampered with.


Never a prophet or bad belle but this project doesn't look like it would last an inch. Like someone said earlier, few patronization at this moment would be for just the pictures and fenzy of entering new train. Just Nigerian culture.

The route of this train doesn't look like it has the capacity to even carry 500 passengers a day.

PortHarcourt1st:
It is no doubt that Enugu state is cursed with barren land. The state has one of the highest poverty rate and lowest literacy rate in Nigeria, but one of the major problems of the state more especially the state capital is lack of portable drinking water. Anambra and delta states are the source of portable drinking water in Enugu .

Below is how most people in Enugu source their drinking water because most of them cannot afford expensive portable drinking water that’s imported from Anambra and delta states

This just a village stream. People always go there to swim for fun and also some would want to fetch home water basically for watching clothes from the calm and purer part of the flowing river. All the villages in Nigeria and Africa usually have some streams or small rivers where locals always go to to enjoy their little nature.


People very close to those village rivers would always want to get some water from it. They can use the river water for watching nd fetch bore hole water for cooking, drinking nd sorts.


The picture you attached is even from a clean river. You lots should stop disgracing your families in the name of tribalism .

There's no way you can measure dick with that state and state you came from. Igbos generally are not your mates.

I've small stream in my village too. During festive times, we all park out cars to swim nd catch fun while others closer to de river goes to calm part nd fetch der waters

yarimo:
They are all looking very ugly

Igbos look ugly?. Says someone all his rich tribal men take turns dying to have a bride from the ugly men's daughters?. just to be part of the beautiful tribe to secure and save their children from looking like African apes. Beauty and your ronu tribe are really opposite and can never match.

All my years in Lagos. I've never found any
Yoruba lady really attractive. I wonder how their men who've met beautiful women outside their enclave cope with them.


Very anyhow and shapeless ugly dark creatures


All my life Never believed a Yoruba person will ever want to use ugly to describe any group of people in Africa as a whole or join any banter or gossip that will describe people as ugly.internet self

xristos:
Same spit returns on u.
Ur infected eye didnt see the not only that
Secondly RED FLAG is just an awareness for concern not an outright NO

Monkey. Who and what do you see yourself for to be talking of red flag or awareness. Awareness to your kindred or children on the internet or nairaland?. Stone age stipid slowpoke. Who seeks your opinion or advisory on nairaland. To you red flag starts from account not being over 3 years. Wish you had a business you would want people to know of, then you can hide for your account to be 4yrs on nairaland. Ezi ofia

xristos:
To Nairaland innocent Newbies ...when you see advert for something u need, dont rush to contact the person.. check the profile..any profile less than 3-4yrs is a RED FLAG, not only that - check other engagements (posts,topics,responses) of the profile in other threads..in all ur search you will have an idea of whom u want to deal with.
Dont be scammed!

By the way..be like say na only north no dey do drugs for this country

So you must be over 3 to 4 years on nairaland to qualify you to advertise your services or market you stuffs. I spit on your Coconut empty head

optionalY09:
Our people are not in any kind of poverty, this is our place everyone is not equally privileged.

as worst as the situation in the east they turned theirself to pigs or rather dogs breading children in baby factories like dogs and pig.

If this few people your have in lagos are your best of best i bet your towns and villages is nothing to right him about

What you called baby factory is just unlicensed motherless nd baby homes. Are they not in your region?


Have you gone to the towns and villages of eastern people to see how they live or how it looks like?

Who amongst igbos and Yorubas bleeds irresponsible children? . It's it not a culture in your region for your ladies to born out of wedlock and left the poor kids for their poor parents to care for while they jump next rickety bus to mushin or ajegunle for survival, causing nuisance to responsible residents. Do you know how had it is to see a Yoruba girl in Lagos who isn't a single mother?. Amongst your tribe and the people you hate, who has higher quality of living both in their villages and towns?


I repeat go and make it also in Lagos and don't be in your poor hut and call people ungrateful. Go ! Atleast Tinubu is still your president, he can feed you or give you money how he use to give igbos so you can be grateful to him.