₦airaland Forum

GAZZUZZ:
I Turned on my app 3weeks ago,
just closed from work, wanted to do a few trips b4 going home.

first request was @ akilo near latter rain. I drove to location, called rider and low and behold it was the boi of my spare part supplier , he was surprised he said "ah Oga you too de drive uber" I said yes o! I now asked him you to de enter uber? That's when he did the math for me.

4 of them were going on a 5km trip, it would cost them between 400-700naira. It was rush hour, keke was scarce, bikes were unavailable. Keke would charge 1k drop @ this time, but uber with my ac and DVD charged N635 for the trip.

What is happening in lagos is a revolutionary, people are taking advantage of E-hailing business, more riders are coming on board people are getting smarter.

Let me give you a final example.

On Sunday I got a request from around charlie boi bustop area, I called rider and asked the usual where u de go? the guy said babcok university please sir can you go? I went to location, carried 4bois and filled up my boot with all their luggage, o traffic, 78km trip. I knew it would not be profitable since there would be no rides back, but we'll I was done for the day, and I wanted to do the long trip any way.

End of trip 5460 naira.

Lagosians have realised that it is cheaper and safer in most cases to use UBER (not taxify) for trips when paired than go with conventional public transport.

The market is growing, there will be space for every one.

some time I get angry when I see a crowd people at the Base of ikeja bridge waiting for 1 rickety Dando bus or keke napep to take them to ogba. If 4 of them join forces, @ 150naira it would be enough to take them to ogba with a.c and good music.

With time and more awareness, uber drivers will be busy round the clock.

That was why I was telling drivers when fares dropped that it wasn't an entirely bad idea. The market then was less than 5% of the entire lagos.
Reduce prices and get more people into the bucket,especially people who saw e- taxir as too expensive . when they get the experience they see the comfort and affordability, they will get stuck to the idea and will always come back. E- taxi Is a more than welcome revolution in our public transport. And I can bet uber and taxify combined still don't have enough drivers to move the entire Lagos

slavemerchant:
gra is one of the best locations to pick up riders, just chill at Isaac John or oba dosunmu street

@nite,yes but thr r times d place dey dull, try dey dia like 11am on a Wednesday or Tuesday, u go know

blackfm:
it must be my luck then, ive not been very fortunate with the area.

My own worst nightmare us GRA Ikeja....the place dey dull me most times

Ifeanyimark:
Ago palace has one of the worst inner roads in lagos, maybe after akute

;DAkute nih be Lagos nah,wwtin u GI come took about bariga or oworishoki....the is only one good road in that pla e

slamstanlee:
same Ago palcae way that leads to festac? That road is smooth na, interlocked. Only few mighty speed breakers... Maybe the inner streets are bad...

Yes, the inner streets are not too good but they are not like giant craters. Ago is a prime location and u can easily get request from Amuwo too or festac. Very good place to be early mornings evenings or sundays

Haderbayor123:
Have been in VI since 6am and no request, may be am at the right place at the wrong time, where can I move to pls?

move towards maroko

blackfm:
i took a trip from VI to Magodo yesterday, 25mins pere, 2800 in my pocket and another trip came in as i was ending that one. drove 3 mins to the pickup only to see madam was going to Ago Palace way. My "don't do this to yourself" alarm started ringing immediately.
I sharply looked for excuse
Me: i'm not sure i have enough fuel to get that far, you know how unpredictable that route is
Rider: Where is your fuel? its quarter nah. you should be fine
Me: this car consumes fuel alottt
Rider: ehen, you can stop and buy fuel on the road then
Me: (blood of Zachariah!!) Fuel availability too is unpredictable. These people are hoarding and i wont want to waste your time queuing
Rider: What do u want to do now
Me: (sigh of relief) i'll just end the trip and you order afresh. I wont mind taking you down to the gate& your driver will be there before us.
Rider: ok.

na so i escape. i'm never going that way again. no return trip and bad road things

I am not sure u meant Ago palace way in Okota....dude are u kidding me?

slamstanlee:
Na to dey waah car everyday be dat.... I haven't washed my car for a week now.... Just wipe and clean the inside

rub and shine

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slamstanlee:
i am not scared of water, i dont like potorpotor

, how u go come do am for this s rain wet dey come......its scary men,small rain wey just fall thus year, some streets still get flood even eko bridge

I just weak for the rain mata

pls WHR in the write up was Rocha's quoted with that statement......abi I no get brain

slamstanlee:
coming from island, carter Bridge leads u clear, but coming from oshodi... Mobil road na red, i can access through ajegunle too. But i still hate that place..... Dont go there during rainy season sha...

Don't go anywhere in Lagos during the rains!!

slamstanlee:
Yesterday was a miracle. I went to apapa and came back unhurt... After rider begged and assured me there wont be traffic and the roads to marine road were all dry.. Lol. And as i was finding my way out of the trap another request popped in... Straight to ketu. What a day!

I do apapa trips often, I understand that place well well

slamstanlee:
on uber, if a rider rate u low like 1star... Instantly you will know, it could drop by 2 or 3 points. Taxify may reflect after some days

Of course u will know,isn't that why ur rating dropped in the first place.However u can never be exactly sure about who gave u d one star. It could be even the nicest rider that rode in your car that rated u one star and that person u are thinking is d bad one might even have given u 5starz by mistake or not even rate u at all.

The reason u can't know who rated u one star is simple and was purposely done by uber so that drivers don't go and start laying ambush for riders u know punctured ur rating also if a rider rates u one star, u and that rider can never meet again via random request even if u are the only available uber in the entire city.

lekanlaniyan:
I always check my rating immediately after every trips.

That's not how it works bro, u can't know the exact rating a rider gave u. Because ur rating came down right after a trip doesn't mean it was that parti ular trip that caused it

pooozeee:
Today is my last day with uber
Bye bye to uber welcome to Taxify and ogataxi

Uber cancelled two of my trips calling it riders fraud, I have been to lekki this morning, with 4 trips, out of 4k uber is deducting 3k from my account, so uber means just 1k is my money from 4 trips and I have been to lekki
Please when and where can I go for inspection with taxify ?

Sorry bro.If u don't mind, u really need to change ur device and also what network are u using for ur internet.
Also u need to be sure google maps is working on ur phone, if it doesn't u are going to be getting lots of these failed trips

lekanlaniyan:
Good day all, I was in the filling station from 3am to 7:30am before I could buy fuel.

I got a request around 8:30am( sleep still dey eye).

I went to pick the rider going to Airport from Katampe extension estate(Abuja). The cost was #3,000.00. I humbly Begged we do the trip offline and we bargained for #4,500.00.

I explained y we should do it offline. 1. I can't pick a rider from airport. 2. The fee is too small 3. The stress of sleeping in the filling station to buy fuel.

She agreed and we cancelled the trip. When I check my rating, she gave me 3 star .


Always pray to meet riders with good heart.

How do u know the rating a rider gives u....or that's how it works in abj?

When will u show us smuggled items seized in d north

EddieMurphie:
Uber and Taxify block drivers when they ask where you dey go? Even most riders won't tell u. Maybe you have a sugar coated way of asking sha

This guy.....u funny I swear.....u really are funny

Jayson1:
Be quite son.
You ain't making sense.


No offense.

Typical confused Nigerian....u want freedom of speech but u have a problem with someone expressing the own feelings o.....wey noh even be ur own
Pathetic lot in a pathetic country

Jayson1:
When I said that coded prostitutes are hiding under the umbrella of Nollywood, I meant it.


This is just a clear example.

And what is wrong with her coming out to express her feelings. Naija and hypocrisy

Trust me, if Nigerians could speak their minds all the time.....naija go better,the will be no more hypocrisy,high service, sycophancy,pretenders and cheats

Emekayoung:
Exactly my point. My brother bought a kia optima 2008 model in 2010 and d car is still very clean and still running like tokunbo. The engine and d transmission are still untouched...

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I drove a 10 years old naija used 2006 Hyundai sonata on uber for 6 months and the car did not have any issues for 1 day.That was the car that opened my eyes to hyundai

I am a Yoruba from Oyo state, I am really loving this

That's to show u that really, there are people above the law in this country. I once asked on thus forum that why us it only in the south that customs is waging all out war against smuggling and always cobfisticating goods but in the north smugglers are free to smuggle things as they want.
This lends credence to the fact that an average northerner always has government protection and a deliberate ploy by the northern oligarch to strangle the south economically. Shame on Buhari and he has over dissapointed me.

PR poorly handled. The girl needs schooling in CRM. because they ain't buying today doesn't mean they can't consider buying later only if she could just do a bit of convincing and some ego massaging-haha bris, u haven't tried it that's why u think its expensive, u just try it, I assure u u will order more.she would have gotten herself more customers
Even me self don dey disinterested in her product even if she brings price down to N500

freak33:
at least they have sense, they know where their market will sell.

Bros noh go tok that thing for outside o......the sales volume of Iphone in China alone dwarfs all the phones tecno has sold in the entire Africa. Bros nah only u dey use techno for dis world o.....China self noh dey use am...u need to wake up and smell the coffee bro
Just like Africa contributes less than 5% of Bill Gates wealth

deji17:
Na when person wake up be him morning. Let us celebrate good things no matter how we think belated it is. Are you part of Nigeria failure or success? That is a question for you to answer in your heart of hearts.
Talk is cheap, the easiest thing to do is to condemn others. The question is what is your own contribution apart from the jeering and complain

Don't mind them, ask them what quota they have contributed and they will go in yapping about how its govt job to contribute quota

OlowoB:
You made sense but that assassin is well known.... kunle poly and MC know that guy. Kunle poly was the person they wanted to kill just last month but he escaped and luckily and his PA was the one killed.

That guy above is a well know hit man in the circle of NURTW and politicians.

I am not doubting u sir, but this is the mafia world anybody can be part of any conspiracy.
I am not saying olohunwa isn't guilty either.

Op, u should say OBJ commissioned building not hospital, weu the beds, wey d equipment?

U snap people instead of equipments.... Who people epp

Good evin.....shans dey........how mush?

Mitsurugi:
Still tripping for this bae, one of the few whose plus size = plus beauty

If u see her in real life, bros u go destroy d phone wey u take type this tin

Pastor Chris pastor Chris, love this guys mafioso skills, take out all the money and stop funding the account so ur wife doesn't get anything. I am loving this big time

madridguy:
Do you mean the assassin is trying to rope olohunwa?

Bros, do u think assassins can be that stupid to get caught so easily and to start singing like a bird just like dat

Its so easy to get a nobody to come out and confess to a crime, promise him money or guarantee visas for his wife and children to leave the country.
Tell him to come out and confess and claim ur rival sent him on the mission, simulate call logs to make it look like truly such discussions happened between them
Mr nobody gets locked up and case keeps getting adjourned till no one remembers, Mr nobody goes under and gets released from prison with no one knowing and ur rival can go in for it or get his name tainted for life.Mr nobody has nuffin to loose