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The problem with these areas is that NEPA would deal ruthlessly with you. Most of these areas hardly have reasonable light. So if you don't have solar panels or Gen get ready to sleep in heat and darkness

geoworldedu:
Nokia 3310 should do the magic. It's strong, durable will everlasting battery. His screen doesn't break if it falls down.

It doesn't have camera like Sagem.

Buy Sagem my x7. I used it in 2005 and I can confirm that it's good and has strong battery Life.

Most Nigerians are so dúmb. You're meddling in middle Eastern crises when you don't have missiles, you don't have ICBMs, you don't have drones, no air defense system. Nothing nothing. Meaning anything fired into our airspace would have a 100% chance of hitting it's target. At least Iran defended themselves and fought back. Nigeria that's making more noise than Iran what do we have to defend ourselves and fight back?

The whole gulf countries of Saudi, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar and co and not even making the kind of noise Nigerians are making. What is wrong with this country for christ sake.

Nazgul:
The current feud between PENGASSAN and Dangote prompted me to start this thread about the uselessness of NURTW to public bus drivers.

Hate them all you like, PENGASSAN has shown that their union members must be treated with respect by their employers and must not be exploited. But the same cannot be said about NURTW.

For decades, the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) has positioned itself as the voice of commercial drivers in Lagos. But ask any danfo, Keke or bus driver on the streets, and you’ll hear a different story. One of frustration, exploitation, and neglect. Far from being a supportive body, NURTW has become a financial drain and a source of daily harassment for the very drivers it claims to represent.

Every morning in Lagos, before a driver earns a single naira from passengers, he must Settle the union. I remembered sometime last year I entered a bus from Oshodi to Kola. At each bus stop the driver stops, you'd see thugs running towards our bus to collect money. At a point I asked myself if these people (drivers) make any profit at all. I once read a post on nairaland about how someone narrated how he entered a Sienna from Ojuelegba to Berger and the driver paid about N2,500 to them. How many people can a Sienna carry that he'll be asked to pay such an amount?

Once you enter a bus in Lagos, from the garage, to junctions, to random roadblock...NURTW agents collect levies like tax collectors without transparency or accountability. By the end of the day, millions of naira go into union pockets, leaving drivers with little profit after fuel, repairs, and daily expenses. What makes it worse is that these payments don’t translate into any real benefits: no welfare, no insurance, no pension, no legal support. Just endless collections.

A real union should fight for better working conditions like PENGASSAN, defend its members from exploitation, and represent their interests before government agencies. NURTW, on the other hand, often looks the other way when drivers are harassed by law enforcement or extorted by LASTMA officials. When drivers are arrested or victimized, they are left to fend for themselves. When accidents happen, there is no welfare structure to support them. The only consistent thing is ticket after ticket, day after day.

To compound the problem there is often power struggle between factions of the union across various garages in the state from time to time which leads to violence and destruction of vehicles of some drivers. Union thugs intimidate drivers and passengers during the fracas and the parks become breeding grounds for disorder instead of efficient transport hubs. In many cases, the union acts less like a workers’ representative and more like a parallel government. One that takes without giving back.

It’s time to call this what it is. NURTW has become useless to the everyday Lagos bus driver. Its existence benefits a few at the top while the average driver suffers under heavy daily levies and zero support. Ndume recently advised Tinubu to scrap PENGASSAN. I'm surprised that no one is calling for the scrapping of NURTW. Because If Lagos truly wants a modern, efficient transport system, the NURTW structure needs a complete overhaul or to be replaced entirely by a transparent, accountable body that actually works for drivers, not against them.


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Dominique

They cannot be scrapped because Lagos APC and Tinubu need them for their dirty political work. You may think they are useless to drivers but trust me, as long as they are useful to the government they will never be scrapped. And this is because our government is selfish and don't care about the welfare of the people.

PuZZyNegro:
Thanks for your contribution, even though this reply looks AI generated.

True true dem no fit satisfy Nigerians. You say make dem advise you person manage reply you you talk say na Ai. Is this a job application ni way you de filter replies. You no need advise. This your post is Ai generated.

Things are really expensive o. So I won't blame her for giving her kids 4k everyday.

Vinnie2000:
Lols, I just remember when one Young babe I was wooing bcus of YANCH
Told me to buy her Teddy Bear of N35000.

So did you buy it for her?



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Tinubu is a disaster. Tribalism is the only thing that still makes him have supporters despite his obvious failure.

Don't blame him. The speech was prepared by his handlers, he just read out what was given to him to Nigerians.

Eyah

Nazgul:
Just tell your friend to secure a remote job right there in the US before relocating back to Nigeria. This will set him up to have the softest life in Nigeria.

If he just lands in Nigeria like that, his suffering might drive him to commit suicide. Cos it's not funny in this country. Most especially when people hear that you're an American returnee. They'll expect you to be swimming in $$$. So to get help would be almost impossible.

Op tell your friend take this advice.

That means I'll be treeking to the UK next year because I don't want my plane to crash.

I thought I read kamakazi plane.

Where is him today. I've never even heard of that company in my life.

I need your input on this as am about to make a decision.

No light in Eso bus stop area Enugu. Nna heat Wan finish person for here o.

I'm here to learn.

Fine and sweet girls. I wouldn't mind dating one or more of them.

If his plane crashes, I can assure you that more than half of Nigerians would celebrate his death.

I have no sympathy towards slain policeman. Those people are worse than demons.

Kudos to the soldier for killing that useless criminal.

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He's a failure just like his boss.

I usually take brt bus everyday going home from work from Sabo Yaba to Ikotun. For good three weeks the driver said he has been complaining to the authority that he’s two tires are not good and he’s managing it like that. We lack continuity and maintenance. Corruption would not allow us maintain what we have.

Tongues. I really like it but I can't speak it. I want someone to teach me.

Congratulations to him.

See how hungry they look, yet they'll be the first to teargas protesters who are protesting for better wages for them.

Foreign used with Lagos plate number.

For the fact that your so called friend didn't offer to drink the beer you rejected as proof that he did what he did out of concern and not ill intentions clearly means that your drink was laced with poison.

If you know what's good for you, stay away from that fellow. He isn't the kind of person you should refer to as friend.

To be sincerely honest in my humble opinion without being sentimental of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view and without hiding any thoughts in my mind and without lies, to the actual truth with my clear open mind and clean heart, expressing what ever is embedded inside me for a long time which I didn't say just because I was nervous. But Today, by gathering all the courage and motivation, I just want to say that I actually feel and think that I have absolutely nothing to say😏