nikkyakins:
How can I download this print application in pdf before going to print

please, is that 26k for renewal or new passport application?

how much is for a renewal and for new passport?

I wanted to do a fresh passport for my wife and 2 kids who are under the ages of 7 and a renewal for myself.

I would like to know the present cost implications for fresh applications and renewal.

Considering the DIY, would it be better since most of these 3rd part agents are just there to rip people off their hard earned money and leave you to your faith the moment they collect money from you.

Please anybody that recently did should help me with info on how to go about it aswel as the cost.

cochtrane:
I want to arrange a free SQL training for interested participants. Let me know if you are interested and depending on the number of participants we can put together a schedule.

I am interested if this is not coming late.
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tunlapapa:


She won't understand since she is not in your shoes.

Yesterday, while still on a trip, I got a waiting request (8.57 am) from my from drop off location (Idado estate) which was still 10 min away ( jakande traffic lights). The rider cancelled immediately but it was painful because it was a 1.8 trip.

The same request came back with 1.2 but didn't accept. I got to the estate 9.10 am and the same request came back with 1.8 (happy again).

A guy came out after waiting for 5 mins that the rider is coming but I kept my cool since it was a surge trip.
In all, the rider came out 9.30am after waiting for 20 mins at his location. He came out as if he finished his bath not quite long but has been requesting since the time (8.57am) i got his first request.

In essence, people are abusing that privilege, period!

The first image shows the time of the second request but he came out 9.30, while the second image was the first request which was cancelled.

Honestly, wait time has grossly been abuse by many Nigerian riders. Time is really of essence in this racket.

How do you contend with the monstrous traffic in this our Lagos road together with abuse use of longer wait time with most of these riders. If care is not taken you would be tagged lazy driver by most of these our dashboard warriors displaying thousands of naira as income for the week.

Let me quickly share my experience with one of my rider on Tuesday.

I was at Ajose Adeogun when her request came in few minutes past 5pm when everywhere was showing red.

PU was at KURAMO WATER CLOSE on a surge of 1.6. She called immediately and I told her am already on my way. She was trying to give a full description when she said her call card is about to finish then I called her back to get details.

I called her as I arrived and said she's already on her way. 5mins wait time elapsed. 4mins of wait time, I put a call through to her she said almost at the gate and was asking what's the colour of your car. Long story short, she came out after 13mins of paid wait time with her a white guy perceived to be her boyfriend.

Her destination was suppose to be SPAR at ADEOLA ODEKU but she requested a stop at a supermarket in BISHOP ABOYADE COLE Street and promised not to spend more than 5min. She and her white Male friend kept me waiting for more than 25min of several calls as she kept telling me they are already coming out of the mall.

They both went and sat at the back seat unapologetic. As I tried to crank the engine of my car, my engine refuse to start. I checked the battery head and other stuffs before it came up. Time spent trying to revive the car is not up to 2mins.

All the while trying to bring my car to life, these duo never said a word. Just as it came up and about moving, next word I heard from her was, you have also wasted our time and who's going to pay for that. She further said you people like complaining of your own time without minding of other people's time. I just kept mute cos I was already boiling inside me and wouldn't want to utter words that will make me flare up as she had already made me loose valuable part of surge period to a meaningful request ride.

As we were driving out of the mall, she said I should take them to EKO HOTEL and I told her to update her request. She said I am still taking her to SPAR and return back to her initial pick up.

When we got to Eko Hotel Roundabout, she called a groundnut seller and requested I pull over. I told her I need to look for a convenient packing space cos I would be obstructing other vehicle behind. It's a busy Roundabout and LASTMA her even around the corner. She insisted I stop and allow the groundnut seller into the car front seat with her wide tray of cooked groundnut. I said NO I don't allow that. The groundnut eventually rushed up and the smellos couldn't even afford to buy groundnut of N100 as they were pricing it for N50. I just shake my head for them.

We got to the front of Eko Hotel where those Bureau de change mallam are, they said i wait until their Bureau-de-change mallam come.

While waiting they kept on talking that am impatient, am this am that together with her dirty white boyfriend. I flared up, scolded them and walked them out of my car. They said they won't pay me and I told them to use the money to go get groundnut they couldn't afford.

Trip ended N1,700, I gave 1star and later noticed my rating sharply came down to 4.73 from 4.83

I quickly wrote bolt about their fraudulent act and misconduct. Bolt apologise and said her account has been blocked until I confirm they've fully paid me my money and if after 7days not being paid that I should report back to them for compensation.

Gbkonsult:
Abeg, I have been looking for Mobil semi synthetic oil (5w 30) for a week now,I checked all Mobil station.it's very scarce here on the island, please who knows where I can get the oil cos my car is due for service.

Have you checked Mobil filling station before the 1st toll gate along Ozumba Mbadiwe? You will surely get it there.

IFSHR:
Guys watch out for this olosho trick +234 802 514 7505... She will make a request with a long trip as destination, but when rides start she will inform you that she will make a stop on the way, a restaurant and after some few minutes will tell you she think she will stay longer to come out and will ask you to end the trip and send your details....after that if you drive off probably to the next trip, she won't send the money she will start forming one excuse or the other...I just decided to let her go cos it's a short trip, but decided to put it out so others will not fall for her old-school gimmick. Check her name on Tcaller I discover say she be runz gal

Her days of this fraudulent act are numbered... Law of karma will surely play it course on her especially on that type olosho trade she's into.

davit:
I joined this strike in solidarity for drivers that have been killed, maimed, robbed, blocked or cheated. All these things are highly preventable and it's within the power of the app companies, but yet they have chosen to do nothing. I'm not exactly against the low fares cos it's an economic problem, bigger than what we all think.

Drivers have a right to ask for riders to be properly profiled and also demand a secure means of payment. Personally I'm sick of carrying 3 fierce looking guys in my car and be looking over my shoulders every 5 mins while driving. I'm sick of getting to riders destination and she begins to call one guy in UK to transfer money to me. I'm sick of getting to rider's "estate" and having to drive another 3.5km and 20 mins through terribly bad roads. I should be able to decline trips to certain areas and state my reasons to the app companies without fear of being penalized. I'm tired of getting to pickup and I see bags of rice, kegs of oil, cartons of food items and 3 passengers ontop of 1k.

If you haven't been blocked before, just consider it as grace, forget all these I have a secret tactic, you are not wiser than pilots that have been blocked. Most of them only suffered the consequence of knowing and expressing their rights.

For those of you that say people should quit if they are not happy, it's like asking people to leave the country cos they are not happy with Buhari, or asking striking doctors to quit medicine or striking lecturers to quit classrooms. People have invested so much in uberbolt and they have every right to fight what they perceive as injustice. In my own opinion however, the strike is only to get their attention it wont change much. The true solution is a proper lawsuit. I know we have medical doctors among us, software engineers, builders, academics, I also want to believe we have lawyers among us. If they can come together enmasse on our behalf, I honestly dont mind donating a token towards their legal fees, all these back and forth madness will definitely come to and end.


Your thought guys!

Copied.

This makes whole lot of sense. More reason why I've decided to off my app since on sunday just to lend my voice in my own little way.

Bolt rating is just so annoying and riders are really taking advantage of that. A rider requested me around that Mende Maryland on Sunday during that heavy rain. Her house is in a certain location which map can not even locate. They are aware of that and had to come and pick me. Is just a street away.

She started by saying I should use my back to enter through the gate of their compound with a narrow packing space. When I got to a point I couldn't go further due to the vehicle behind, she still insisted i moved backward a little more. Then I was already boiling inside of me and my countenance could reveal that to ger.

Next was another lady coming out with a very big Ghana must go bag struggling to hold grip of and said open your boot. I just weak at that point, a thought said cancel and another thought said you have put so much effort for this trip not to happen. And then came with the second bag and the third. Two bags into the boot and the third on my back seat.

When we got to her destination at Ikeja GRA she was still ordering me stay here move forward move backward. Then I told her I can't move further. Trip was just 1k with all that enormous stress and she requested for account no and did transfer.

Me that has been maintaining 4.98 rating in the last two weeks. Something just told me to check my rating as I was waiting for a request next thing I saw was 4.88. Just like that 10 just vanish.

obidevine:



Help !!!; Gazzuzz radautoworks

Perhaps your fuel pump is gone but then, what do I know when we have the gurus in the house.

GAZZUZZ:


If the crankshaft (according to his naked eye) is still ok, why not just replace the bearings? Why use paper?

I was never against him changing the bearings including the crankshaft but said the paper would surely do the magic. He said the paper can't eat up.

But what could possibly be the cause of noise and the non starting when engine is cold until you raise/warm before it picks?

GAZZUZZ:


Replacing oil pump will not solve low oil pressure issues.

You have excessive clearance between crankshaft and bearings.

You need to do a major engine overhaul which will involve replacing the crankshaft or cutting it to next possible size and replacing bearings.

Thank you very much Oga Gazzuzz

The issue of engine oil light and knocking sound has been resolved.

What he did was to loosen the engine completely. He changed the bearings and repack the metals with paper together with the crankshaft for a firm grip due to clearance as he said the crankshaft is still ok.

My car seems to work perfectly now but when I start engine in the morning, the car rpm raise high and dropped down gradually below 1000 until it jerks and power off. But when I raise the car for several minutes it picks and work normal.

Also, i noticed its consume fuel and makes a humming sound especially when engine is warm.

What could possibly be the issue again.

Blackbishop:


What about the Crankshaft metals?

The metals is not firmly gripping the crankshaft which the mechanic has adjusted with a general overhaul of the engine and yet to be completed.

Will give an update once completed.

It doesn't misfire.

I have changed the oil pump and oil sump was also cleaned.

DMechy:




Is your oil light on too?

The 05 corrola is riddled with when the oil sump is depressed, especially when you enter a bump. Check the oil sump.


A continuously blinking check engine light is evident of a serious performance problem that needs to be addressed. Does the corolla misfire too?

Yes the oil light comes up once it's making that knocking sound if I put on the ignition and sometimes it start normally without the sound.

But once the car has worked for several minutes or hour (that when engine has warm) and I brake or car is on idle (say in a traffic) the engine oil start blinking until I accelerate again before it goes off.

Blackbishop:


There is something like oil switch change that

I've changed the oil switch and also changed oil pump together with cleaning of the oil sump.

GAZZUZZ:


Replacing oil pump will not solve low oil pressure issues.

You have excessive clearance between crankshaft and bearings.

You need to do a major engine overhaul which will involve replacing the crankshaft or cutting it to next possible size and replacing bearings.

Thanks you sir.

Will changing the crankshaft eliminate the problem totally cos my mechanic also said I might need to change it and also do a general tune up on the engine

My Corolla 05 makes a knocking sound when I put on the ignition with the engine oil light on. It goes off when throttle down and sound normal.

Also, the engine oil light blinks when car is idle or while braking mostly when the engine is warm and must have work for several minutes or hour.

I have just charged the oil pump thinking that was the culprit but the problem still persist.

What could have gone wrong pls expert in the house?

My Corolla 05 makes a knocking sound when I put on the ignition with the engine oil light on. It goes off when throttle down and sound normal.

Also, the engine oil light blinks when car is idle or while braking mostly when the engine is warm and must have work for several minutes or hour.

I have just charged the oil pump thinking that was the culprit but the problem still persist.

What could have gone wrong pls expert in the house?

My Corolla 05 makes a knocking sound when I put on the ignition with the engine oil light on. It goes off when throttle down and sound normal.

Also, the engine oil light blinks when car is idle or while braking mostly when the engine is warm and must have work for several minutes or hour.

I have just charged the oil pump thinking that was the culprit but the problem still persist.

What could have gone wrong pls expert in the house?

My Corolla 05 makes a knocking sound when I put on the ignition with the engine oil light on. It goes off when throttle down and sound normal.

Also, the engine oil light blinks when car is idle or while braking mostly when the engine is warm and must have work for several minutes or hour.

I have just charged the oil pump thinking that was the culprit but the problem still persist.

What could have gone wrong pls expert in the house?

My Corolla 05 makes a knocking sound when I put on the ignition with the engine oil light on. It goes off when throttle down and sound normal.

Also, the engine oil light blinks when car is idle or while braking mostly when the engine is warm and must have work for several minutes or hour.

I have just charged the oil pump thinking that was the culprit but the problem still persist.

What could have gone wrong pls expert in the house?

DMechy:


Oil burns on your Camry is a factory fault. You should live with. The car does not smoke, and there are no leakages. Albeit a knocking sound on startup is as a result of delay in oil supply.

The weight of the new oil could be the cause, a clogged oil pump filter, or a depressed oil sump.

Switch back to 0w40 or 5w30

Am experiencing similar issue with my 05 corolla. Oil shortening but doesn't smoke and I use semi synthetic oil.

Nowing making a knocking sound each time put on the ignition and the engine light blinking each time car is idle or at every braking but mostly when engine is warm.

Pls honourables in the house... does anybody have an idea of how much a corolla 05 Fender is currently sold.

BAZ001:
Guys if you are not on a trip just find a place to take a break or avoid VI for few minutes cos this VIO guys are stopping Corolla, sienna and civic like pure water. Been watching from my office and it seems they have target. So just enjoy your break, they are even working with lastma

Thanks for the info.

Meanwhile, which part of VI is that cos that place looks like Ajose Adeogun

Kanoski:

ok now u are making me scared

I had similar issue with my car 2weeks ago. Car vibrate heavily when AC is on. Rpm rise and drop intermittently distorting speed. Engine off whenever car is idle.

Culprits, one of my nozzle was bad and he changed all my plugs, everything normalized.

eyinola:
am on a 7mins trip now from maryland crescent to cakes and cream opebi I don wait tire she didn't even tell me am gonna wait ooo..feels it's the right thing

Honestly this Bolt of not charging for arrival wait time is a total bullshit. And most of these riders are just unapologetic as some of them do it deliberately and say after all they are paying you.

One slowpoke requested me yesterday evening at Ajose Adeogun. Her number was practically busy for more than 10mins of my arrival. When she eventually picked to let her know I've been calling and waiting, she was dumbfounded and asking me for what. When her brain eventually reset, she started pleading with me that she was only trying to put a colleague through on how to use the app.

AngryIgboDon:
Let me take out this wonderful opportunity again to apologise to everybody I must have said something bad to on this thread.

Top on the list is Madam Radautoworks. Followed by blackbishop and then felicity. I know I really said a whole lot of bad things to these guys when provoked. I am truly sorry and apologetic.

The truth of the matter too is that these spats made the thread lively. It brought life to it. We can't all be on the same page. If we are, it will become very boring. There must be two opposing forces for there to be a spark. APC and PDP, Night and Day, Black and Red Wire, Afonja and Flattheads etc.

Eitherways, I think some boundaries were crossed. I am not here to debate who started it first. My own is that am apologising for whichever way I must have hurt people with my terrible words. It will never happen on this thread again and in this lifetime. Heck no, some of them were even jokes. So please do find a place in your heart to forgive me both those I mentioned and those I didnt mention.

Felicity, am owing you 50,000 naira pledge on behalf of your new born baby. But the people that are meant to come and pack fish have refused to come. Still find a way and drop your account number anonymously. I will gift you some funds later anonymously. I also owe you two cartons of smoked fish and will deliver it in due time too but anonymously.

This is so deep...

Change is the only constant thing I know about this life.

sunnp:
Sir its only when d gauge go up n down then it will slow car down and rise up like misfire

It could be the Range Switch.

eyinola:
one of them just scratched me at ikeja under bridge now, I was jejely waiting for traffic light oooo..but what can i do he zoom off to the other side as if noting happened, those guys are something else

Those riders no get joy atal. They need to be tamed maybe with some form of regulations as we are now having them in large numbers on the highways.

That Range is a toks and unregistered. The guy came all the way from Benin through one his friend (one guy on white long sleeve shirt with a black jean) to fix one of the security issue in lag before delivery as he said he already have a buyer. No any insurance yet.

As I was dropping a rider off in one of those street around that Pinnacle. A guy walked up to me to help them jumpstart their car. On getting there, the range had already been towed with a towing van. They just need the car to be on a start mode for ease of movement to mechanic workshop.The wheel by the driver side was dangling as it has pulled off from the tirod.

I had to take them to the mechanic workshop to bring him down for check when we couldn't start it before it was towed down.

I so much felt for the Range guy cos he was such a gentle guy with a razz and aggressive friend whom seems to be in total control of his affairs.

The Range guy was later gisting me that his friend put him into all these troubles if only he had listened to him. He said the car had been in the mechanic workshop already only for his friend to say he is hungry. He told him they should take a taxi or bike to an eatery but the friend insisted they take the Range and come back since the mechanic is not ready to attend to them yet. They've not gotten to the eatery before that incident happened.