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izzou:
[color=royalblue]I have never seen any Uber driver that is willing to wait for 1 hour for you online.

If paid waiting was worth it, people for dey readily accept such offers[/color]

For where?

Even 10 minutes self he would have started grumbling

That's why I was surprised reading that Bolt would have given a driver more than 18k. Had to bring out my calculator to confirm

tojahh:
If you book a bolt driver on App from morning till 3pm. You will pay more than 18k. Surge or no surge sir. When the paid waiting is activated (Since it's home to Luth and wait. Then the rider would put a stop which starts counting once they get to Luth) so by 3pm he would be handling with transfers of excess of 18k

No Cap

By my calculations, no way. This is what I have on my bolt App.

If he picks him at 7am and they return by 3pm, total time is 8 hours or 480 minutes. At 13 naira per minute charge, the amount is N6,240. By the time you add for the actual distance covered, he will be lucky to earn 10k on bolt.

Except the charges per minute in Lagos is double that of PH

BlueRayDick:
Insurance can only take care of the vehicle, I think what he's saying is other factors like kidnapping, driver running away with goods,drivers siphoning diesel etc. Those other factors u don't have control over it and they will surely affect ur cashflow and payback period for the loans u accessed from the banks

Insurance is flexible enough and does not just take care of the vehicle. You can insure the goods being transported.

Standard logistics firms like DHL insure their goods so if the driver runs away with it or any other thing happens, they turn to insurance.

And when you say kidnapping, do you mean like the driver getting kidnapped?

Ibime:
Na brave guys dey do that business for Naija. It's a tight margin business but predictable. However in a setting where you can lose 1 in 10 trucks to Nigerian roads be it accident, vigilantes, bad roads, poor drivers, kidnappers, not to mention drivers probably siphoning diesel, I wonder how they plan out their cash flow and payback periods on trucks. Too many variables dey Naija setting

You can mitigate most of this by comprehensive insurance with excess buyback. I doubt anyone will be stupid enough to put a truck on Naija roads without insurance.

pope191:
How much do you think a Bolt guy will take for such? I go to Abk for 25/30k anything less then that? Forget it. I have a client I use to take to airport for 6k, not up to 20 mins. With time he start giving me 4k to 3k... mo ya run away before e enter 2k. I realise he start using someone I know that takes low. I felt like telling the guy, but something just ask me to ignore. If they both like there business, happy for them.

I use to tell clients transport business does not have a fixed price. It is all about your negotiation prowess. Same ride you will take for 10, someone will do it for 4k. I have my price and won't do what I'll regret and won't advice them to do what they will regret too. That 18k, someone will glady take 10k for it. Never a fixed price boss.

It's not a question of much a bolt guy will take for such. Its a question of the amount bolt will charge for such. The comparison is between the amount Taxi cabs charge and what bolt charges. The main point is to show that bolt is still cheap regardless of the increased earnings.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I see them in markets naa

The money those guys make on a good day is the net earnings of a Bolt driver in two days

Imagine netting 15k with enough time to sleep under a tree.[/color]

Those men no like stress

izzou:
[color=royalblue]People still use them oh

Right while i was waiting for my guest, buses dropped off passengers and they were using Baba Iyabo.

If Baba Iyabo can do 3 trips in a day, he will net what more than 80% of Bolt drivers have been labouring since 6am.

It's good that Bolt is allowing 1998 models. Those kind of cars are what is commensurate with their fares, tbh[/color]

The cab that used to take my friend to Luth charges 18k daily. He picks him up in the morning, waits for him and latest by 3pm, he's back. He said the driver buys fuel of 3k and pockets 15k daily. Soft work . Imagine the mountains a Bolt driver will move to net 15k

When I asked why he doesn't use Bolt, he said the road to the place he was staying was bad and quite some distance from the main road. It was very difficult if not impossible getting a bolt driver.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Who go enter that pencil light?

Inside this Lagos, wey those Lekki girls would either cancel when they see your car, or outrightly give you 1 star?

Even to charter local cabs, people avoid Pencil lights. [/color]

That one dey .

However, he will still get his own customers. The ocean is big for many fishes. Those who enter that 03-05 civic will enter pencil light

I personally think that the pencil light looks better than the civic

Felicity001:
By the time.you spend 3 hour completing a trip.of 3k with Car Uber driving your eye go clear, by then you'd appreciate your earning with with your bike with no traffic.

Only thing is, the bike is.mote risky when compared to driving a car. Just be careful I'm your driving bro, stay glue to your dispatch business.

A Corolla now cost a minimum of 3.6m for a toks.
That's about 5 bikes in your fleet. With proper management... I think you're better of than the Uber car.

I do agree with you that the bike thing is definitely more profitable but remember he won't make the same money giving out the bikes as he's making riding himself.

By the way, this new pencil light thing is really great. He no longer has to spend 3.6m getting a corolla. And if demand for pencil light goes up, people will still tend to avoid baby boy due to bad rep.

OasisX:


.....this Múppet is dull sha. Why he dey confuse himself ffs! He asks Itsrm to read patiently whereas he needs the advice more than anyone on this board.

That is what happens when you want to win an argument at all cost

OasisX:


Cc Itsrm....... say no more.

So I've been wasting my time all this while when I could have just used the search button

liveLongNprospa:
Okay okay.. So the new logic from you is PDP benefited more from Obi emerging or you are saying what PDP said..

I need you to understand the root of this conversation oo😁

Nawa o.

I am not a member of the PDP and I don't even agree with their analysis. I am only pointing out the thinking within the PDP before the election and why they may not have bothered digging into him.

You made it seem like what patrickmuf said was out of place and I have proven to you that it's not.

Simple as ABC

raumdeuter:
The ones who normally do the attack are Wike and Fayose who joined G5

The online PDP attackers were sent to Obidient camp

Both of them don change mouth now. Imagine Wike now saying that Tinubu will continue the good job Buhari has done

Politicians are shameless . No integrity whatsoever

liveLongNprospa:
Lmao atiku thought he had the North on lockdown?
Lets assume this was the thinking before campaigns started.

When campaigns began did atiku still think he had the North on lockdown? 😁

Atiku that was boasting that he had 7 APC Northern governors with him. That's why I said you didn't follow the PDP campaign.

liveLongNprospa:
We all followed PDP and the election very well.
Infact we were here when the rallies started.
We were here when the Northern rallies started for tinubu and for kwankwaso also.

It is disingenuous to assume that atiku looked at the competition he had up north and also saw that Obi had 2 regions on lock down for regions that had voted for him before and said he didn't care.
We all knew the SS and SE were not going to affect tinubu as much and it was atiku that it would affect most..

Ahn ahn

By the bolded, you obviously didn't follow PDP.

Watch this interview between from 5:30 to 10:00

Even the video caption already proves my point but watch the video itself.

There are many more but this is the one I can lay my hands on


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE1LrQq710s&t=1129s&pp=ygUFQndhbGE%3D

OasisX:


Simple...... out of G5, four are southern Governors. Atiku gave up on South and would rather use home advantage to win it.

We saw what he did at Arewa House while addressing Northern Elders. Thanks to El-Rufai that disrupted his plans.

Exactly. They thought they had Buharis 11m votes on lockdown

Another argument is that the PDP is a useless opposition party. If anyone can go the length to dig deep against OBI, it's the APC. See how LP is even doing all the attack against APC while the useless PDP is nowhere to be found.

liveLongNprospa:
Lmaooo you are the only person that will have this view point when almost all the APC northern governors supported tinubu and went hard for him😁

He is not.

If you followed PDP pre election, you'll know what he said is very valid.

The thinking within PDP was that Atiku had the North on lockdown and that Obi and BAT will share southern votes. They said history showed that anytime two southerners contest against a Northerner the Northerner always wins.

king406:
boss come and fix my gallery gasket oo

Were you able to get the gallery gaskets locally? I'm having the same issue.

The argument that he was only required to declare what he owns and not what he jointly owns is downright ridiculous.

If I own 70% of a company and another person owns 30%. The 70% is still mine.

liveLongNprospa:
You are quoting premium times understanding.
I am asking you to show me where it is written in the law itself.
Not another person's understanding.
E nor hard nau.
Below is the declaration guidelines

Show me where "jointly owned" as at when he produced his assets was a requirement.

Did you see the nevertheless part?

Melvyn11:
She will have a long career thanks to Don jazzy not because of her voice. Everything in that industry na packaging.

How well did that work for Korede Bello?

Who get talent get, who no get no get.

When I hear some people sing, I just know they won't last long in the industry. Good examples are Tems and Asake.

I said the same thing about Bella Shmurda and he's gradually fading away.

Arya Starr on the other hand will have a very long career in the music industry. She's not in the same league as Tems.

Theflint1:
The distance from 1.5m to 1bn is a lot o...1.5m * 37 = 55.5m. Sometimes I feel like Nigerian's don realize how big 1 billion is, and that's why people easily overlook theft of billions by Nigerian politicians/civil servants.

You know you still have to fly your witnesses to Abuja, lodge them, pay lawyers, grease palms and the case can drag for up to three years.

BlueRayDick:
When people talk about the bolded, I can't even quantify the amount of anger I feel towards such people and their line of reasoning.

I remember my old man once telling me about a statement Gowon was credited to have made that Money is not Nigeria's problem, but how to spend it is. Initially I thought my old man was just repeating what has been thrown over and over in the media space without any prove that Gowon did said that; but I later came across a thread on nairaland where it reported that Gowon actually admitted making the statement in the 70's.

https://www.nairaland.com/979808/money-not-problem-how-spend

It's funny that till date, that statement is still valid. The few states doing capital projects trying to solve some of our innumerable problems do so at a very high cost that doesn't even make any economic sense cos same projects cost lesser elsewhere apart from Nigeria. The just pad project costs without conscience while the other state governors don't even bother doing anything and just swallow the monies out rightly or buy overpriced assets in the name of the government that has no second hand value.

When I see people encouraging Nigerian Government to generate more revenue through more taxation blah blah blah.... i just feel they don't pay tax here and get to see how government waste their money on frivolities.

I remember Ajimobi vs Yinka Ayefele issue in Oyo state back then. Ayefele fell out with Ajimobi who was angry he(Ayefele) used his ownership of media organization to oppose him(Ajimobi) and support his political rival Alao-Akala. Ajimobi brought out state environmental law and had a portion of Ayefele's media house demolished citing he contravened some physical planning rule.

They later settled their differences and Ajimobi's government used state funds to restore and rebuild some parts of the building the government earlier put down. I wonder what those who pay tax in Oyo state will be thinking that time. How does a government use my money to demolish a premises and still use my money to restore it ?

You are absolutely right. Most of the proponents of the more tax more revenue are not in the country

I guess it's easier to sit somewhere and wish more tax on struggling citizens when the one they even pay is being stolen right before their very eyes.

And I can't believe the bolded

Spy360:
The idea of governance in Nigeria is that it's a means of fortune and hitting big. Unless there's a true patriot who comes to power, the cycle will only get worse.

I was watching an interview of Buba Galadinma on Arise and he claimed it can take up to 5bn to prosecute a presidential election in court

And why won't it? Imagine INEC requesting 1.5m to release election materials in Sokoto State alone

Everything about this country is just so strange

Roland17:
And another one!

N224B to print papers, train staff and other miscellaneous. N224B!!!!!!!

I bet you they will request for additional funds when the census is rescheduled to do another round of printing and training because this one wen dem print go disappear!

Na who do us this thing abeg!

https://www.nairaland.com/7693862/how-fg-spent-over-n200bn

Isn't the annual budget of NDDC 500bn? What do they do with it? Just a few projects here and there and every other thing stolen. The last time the MD of NDDC appeared at the national assembly, he fainted

Look at the governor of a state like Zamfara stealing 70bn. How much do you think the Wikes, Udoms, Okowas have stolen? Perhaps, this why none of them is going to the senate. They have enough money to last 10 generations.

No one should even come with that Nigeria is not generating enough revenue or not collecting enough tax again. Even if that is true, no way things are this bad if our politicians have any atom of conscience in them.

OasisX:
Of course, there will be public holiday. It will be once in 4yrs public holiday, while June 12 will be yearly public holiday.

Nice

OasisX:
📌📌📌📌📌📌

Shey public holiday go dey on the 29th? Especially as democracy day was moved to June 12. Can't remember what happened in 2019

Cc BlueRayDick

ksmart027:
Boss, my car once overheated, and it turns out i didn't close the radiator well. The temperature gauge did not go up, but i notice the sound of the engine have changed. So i parked and when i open my hood, there was no single water in the radiator. Though that was my first time of experiencing such, so I think the guy is correct.

Some people have sworn a pact with ignorance. They will rather stay in that comfort zone than seek knowledge.

The first time it happened, my wife was the one driving. The radiator was punctured by God knows what, coolant was lost and the car overheated till the engine shut down. She swore the temperature guage didn't rise but I never believed her. I thought she must have missed it.

One day, I rushed out to pick the children from school. On my way back, my RPM started fluctuating and it looked like the engine was going to shut down. Thankfully I was in the street. Managed it to the house, opened the bonnet and lo and behold, I didn't return the radiator cap when I opened it to check coolant level before I rushed out. In all of these, the temperature guage didn't rise an inch.

I am absolutely certain the guage is working as it should because the other time I had issues with my fan, the guage worked and I saw it rise.

Conner44:
For real? Honda?

Are you sure your ect sensor wasn’t already on its last legs at the time? Because the other regular Hondas I know usually react to even the slightest rise in temperature on its guage in real-time.

I don't think so. From what I read at the time, the ECT sensor uses the temperature of the coolant to control the temperature guage. Does it not then mean that if there's a rapid loss of coolant, the ECT sensor has nothing to work with.

Conner44:
This scenario is more rampant in Toyota vehicles

I experienced it with a J series engine twice. One time I forgot to cover the radiator cap and the other time the radiator got damaged.

Yeah, When mechanic installed fan wrongly and car overheated temperature guage was working but when radiator got damaged and coolant spilled temperature guage was no longer working.

If you don't know, ask questions. It doesn't kill