₦airaland Forum

Glithronix:
@The bold is where the truth lies.
While others gather for protest, some hungry drivers go see am as opportunity to work as per say drivers wry go dey online no go plenty.


Much respect, baba.

Hmm very true bro

Honestly there is no need complaining of poor fares if we drivers won't sacrifice. Everything has been increased across board so y not e hailing. Riders must not use d app dey can use keke or bus anyone who wants to use d app sud pay. 550naira/km sud be d base fare

Some said iz slavery work so y doing a work that devalues you? Me I'm proud of my work and anyone who enters my car is forced to respect me no matter who you be. Slavery starts from the mind. Whatever a man thinks so he is. If u believe u r not a slave then u r not. That belief will make you act accordingly.

But drivers are already defeated. When a man looks down on his own source of income. I mean something that puts food on ur table u speak of it like thrash how will u ever get something better. D universe is watching.

We must sacrifice if we ever want to smile doing this job and if we are not willing to sacrifice then pls let's stop complaining of poor fares and embrace the struggle

ebiye55:
This is the protest, or so

I think

No not protest but to plan d protest proper. I'm guessing dere will be a mega protest in October

Glithronix:
Nothing go work, bro.
It is futile to expect this kind of movement to make them increase price.
Those app. coys are crazy and only care about their commission and competition.



Much respect, boss.

My bro but what to do naaa...these prices are wicked from d pits of hell. We need to stand together honestly cause iz becoming annoying.

Driver own the cars not app companies. We maintain and fuel so we sud call d shots.

Iz cause we drivers are not united imagine we moved as a unit. As a true union. Even pengassa frustrated Abacha with strike. If we are one honestly the app companies will start begging drivers and would listen.

Iz sad honestly

ebiye55:
Drivers are gathering at National Stadium Surulere. They are requesting rides to lure drivers to meet them there

I told the one that made me waste my time to atleast inform me but they rained curses on their village juju when I told them I was not going to stay. One said I go die and I replied 'won't we all'

So, if you get a request inside stadium, check well well

Sincerely I wish them and myself well. From personal experience, protests yields little or no results

E go better

Bro but we have to make a stand. The power is in the hands of drivers

Eazilyfe:
Even Fuel users are picking bad price.

Dere is mad hunger in d land.

Drivers no get level again.

Even riders look down on drivers but most of these riders no even get cars

So whose doing who a favour?

Mehn drivers need to wake up

MoonlightDrive:
My believe is that the rental model may no longer be sustainable with the current high cost of petrol and car maintenance.

I was at an event centre parking lot on Sunday, a guy walked up to me, turned out to be a copilot, it was lamentation upon lamentation concerning the low price, he asked am i using Gas, told him i dont have CNG... He said he was fed up, that he had only done 2 trips on indrive with useless prices, and that he was heading home, i encouraged, him to at least look for a destination trip to his house, he said he did not care and drove off. I was only able to do only 3 trips on indrive, because the prices does not justify the high cost of fuel.

There is a saying the Devil is in the details

Official data from the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation indicates that about 99.4% of bank accounts in Nigeria contain less than ₦500,000.This means fewer than 1% of total bank accounts hold a balance greater than ₦500,000

💡 Financial Reality Check High inflation destroys household purchasing power. Most citizens live hand-to-mouth daily.Emergency savings remain out of reach.Systemic poverty limits long-term investments... source google AI

Oride abandoned ship long ago before Uber did , because OPay knew more about the real financial health of the middle class Nigerians.

My prayer is God will accelerate our exit plan to something more financially rewarding and less stressful.

Amen. Spot on bro. D situation is very sad. Drivers really don't understand the power they have. Iz not easy to own a car so y feel so demoralized as to allow riders and app companies dictate d pace?

As long as we have drivers who are in it just to eat their next meal I'm sorry it won't get better.

Before wen Uber started and taxify days this work was more dignifying. Clean cars clean drivers now is all man for demselves.

I really pray things get better I believe they will but iz will get worse first.

I really don't know how folks who use fuel r coping but iz very difficult now and dere is serious hunger in d land.

TheModerator:
Do you have CNG station planted in your bedroom? After queuing for days to fill up that your cylinder, this is your final verdict, sufferhead? Truth is far from you.

Truth hurts my friend .this same truth wey u dey yap about na em gan gan dey pain ur body .

Iz not my final verdict ooo. Na verdict on d street and naim fastest fingers dey use operate. If u no believe on d app.

Y'all ur minds are on suspension. I'm I d cause of ur frustration . I'm I supporting bad fare. I'm only a merchant of truth

Sorry.

Honestly we need a change. I pray it works

Conner44:
WORD!

A SHARP cutlass fears no GRASS same way a [b]CNG powered driver fears no [/b]PRICE

The miles are always in front of us waiting to be counted indeed

"Same way a cng powered driver fears no price"

More WORD broski.

A WORD Is enuff for the wise

capetownboyz:
Just spamming the thread with ridiculous rhetoric..just earn your slave wage and keep it moving ..

My brother be grateful so that God will increase u

It's a crime to dress up and go work for a job u don't even believe in. A job that is slavery to you. Bro quit cause u won't see light at d end of d tunnel with this attitude

Ungratefullness breeds stagnation hence frustration

I'm grateful that I can earn a decent living

Make we leave cng discussions abeg no need to the cast operations . na @pearl start am me I won't ever respond to him again but if em install am.... kaboom

sandammy:
You mean 65ltr on a 2.5l engine?. I have same 65ltr installed on a 1.6ltr engine and I can average 140-150km before it will enter reserve.

. Thank u

Jamie90:
I use CNG and what Nelo is saying annoys me. I installed CNG for myself, not for the app to reduce price. All the Danfo and Keke and CNG, do they care about if they will make profit if they carry the old price? They didn’t install to please any passenger.

What is bad is bad regardless o… I doubt he understands the insane ratio of distance/price if per km is 250. That’s like traveling form Ajah to Ikorodu for 15k. Imagine if 3 passengers enter, they will average 5k for that trip.

Driver will squeeze face all through the journey.

What I'm I saying that annoys. The cng u r using is that to blame. Weren't prices low before u installed cng? Isn't that the reason u installed it? Wasn't I also complaining about d prices before this whole discussion began? So what I'm I saying that is a lie. That u can pick prices at 250naira and still be profitable is that a lie? Is it good? no but that's a fact.

Cng is helping alot of people don't blame it. That u even have hope to enter ur car and work is cause of cng. Y r people blaming cng?

Iz a fact that if u pick 250u will be okay ooo. Yes it's very very bad but I didn't lie oo

Eazilyfe:
People will pick ridiculous prices for different reasons, maybe destination trip, hunger strike, CNG car, Suzuki etc. If app increase the base fare things will improve. But i dont see them doing so because they are in competition to dominate the market and i dont see Bolt sacrificing their commission for that, Thank God for Low indrive commission

Exactly if I took out loan to convert won't I pick anything to survive

Jamie90:
This assumption is misleading. If you pick nonsense trips with 65 L, you risk exhausting the gas at 20k net and you go and queue for insane number of hours and call it a day after few trips.

The number of hours and frustration that comes with getting gas isn’t spoken about enough.

I use 100L I'm not assuming im telling you what is obtainable. Of course it's not cast on stone but very close to reality.

Besides my argument is not about netting 100k or not as it's based on individuals. I'm just saying people r doing it

Definitely picking useless trips reduces ur profitability but u will still be profitable that's y fastest fingers thrive

Prices are shitty honestly

And if u read my messages I'm not condoning bad pricing im just stating d obvious that cng is like sharpening your cutlass, atleast it's sharp u can now decide which tree to take down. Unlike being helpless without a cutlass or blunt one

saudatu:
I use CNG but I know the fair is terrible. Pearl is right on this one. Ibadan drivers and those on hire purchase are part of the problem. The question is what can we do?

What exactly is he right about

The issues have been the issue and is still d issue since 3years. No be hear we don dey talk am. Everything don has failed. Strike ooo, punch ooo, retreat oooo everything failed.

Drivers are the problem I don't even blame d app companies anymore iz like Politicians in Nigeria are lucky to have dormant/dorsal citizens same way app companies in Nigeria are lucky to have unfortunate selfish and disunited drivers and of course esp hungry poverty stricken drivers cause part of d world is poor and oppression thrives

I dont even know how we all started talking about cng. Oh I remember iz d hatred of it by pearl . I drop ticket na so em talk say I haven't recovered 1m I used to convert.

Boy iz 1.2m not 1m and it shows how ignorant u trully are. U didint even understand until now the business model cng presents. So u didn't know one can make profits even with ridiculous prices cause if u knew u wouldn't say that. If there are people making a killing from e hailing as it is now then cng users are the actual people

But let me ask you son, y did u want to bring electric, do u love this job so much that u just want to bring in electric for greener energy abi u want to reduce cost of production(if u know what that is) l. Wasn't it because ur silly idea was x-ray and found to be just that...siilly cause the timing is wrong. But since then na hatred and anger for cng . But wait oo wen u bring the electric shebi na lagride u go register am abi no be this same bolt ati Indrive. So u see ur hypocrisy is obvious as cng is not ur problem but actual bad fares which drivers encourage.

We all have been complaining here of price since Bobo Chicago resumed his torture hence the alternatives. People like us that use 2.5L how we got dey do am . Many men retired their V6 after subsidy removal but CNG has given them renewed hope

Sadly I believe the Suzuki boys wey we dey abuse since 3 years as fastest fingers are actually cng boys cause honestly forget my talk if I took loan to convert na me gan gan go be fastest finger. The system is corrupt imagine app company encouraging u to convert and even subsidizing it.

Until driver get sense and trully stand together then the struggle continues

Some thing is better than you means iz better than you.

No need to argue against the truth. No need to make cng bad. It's here to stay.

Na driver ls be d problem and apps like Indrive knows iz

I wont be surprised soon bolt will start negotiating fares.

Can't blames drivers sha. Imagine u get loan to install cng and knowing the calculations/profitability u must pick work daily ooo regardless of fair price or not cause u will actually make money.

Infact a man using cng on useless bolt basic doesn't even need to select trips cause no matter as e be he will make profits even well more far beyond and above d man using fuel

So now u r asking me if ave saved 1m from cng since I installed.

Always measuring

Just know whatever u have saved in the same time frame multiply by 3 is what d average cng user will save with same effort and energy.

Get financial books my friend and be enlightened

Unless u didn't save ooo. Me sef I didn't save

ebiye55:
this is our undoing

we are not yet ready. It takes the human mind a lot to comprehend this

the app coys know this so they keep pushing rubbish

Bro I use cng and I'm telling you that anyone using it can afford to pick trips of 250-300naira/km and still be very very profitable and save money for maintenance.

U think reduction in cost of production is beans

That's what d app companies know

For me honestly my conscience will not allow me. And honestly after some years doing this ave also grown to where Im not driving for survival but the sad truth is.....anyone who is driving for survival and installs cng will profit and promote this madness we are complaining about.

Iz like some don't understand the importance of reducing costs of production if I say person na driver naw Dem go begin whine like woman.

Abeg read books and free ur mind to learn no be everything be steering wheels

Anyone who installed cng can afford to pick anything honestly and sadly I believe mostly cng drivers are d ones picking this ridiculous prices cause forget u will make it

I don't even want to start discussing here cause some believe they know it all. Just imagine asking if uve made d cng in more than 4months u didn't even ask in 1 months be there and assume u r d only useful driver in the whole of e hailing .

Men wey install 65L made it back in weeks u dey talk months even me wey be lazy driver I know how long before I save am back.

Another sad truth is with cng u can actually still survive cause imagine making almost times 6 on basic trips I mean trips of 300naira/km. So unless u are not a serious driver u will be fine esp if u r driving for survival. Just mute ur soul and be picking all manner of rubbish but u go see money with cng only oooo...

Some people ehhh u go just dey make confident asertions haba. It is well oo

Omo indrive riders no get shame ooo.

Haba so with everything em still dey call even dey send message 'where r u'.

Em no mind d insult hahaha

Omo dis app companies are disrespecting drivers just imagine a trip on minimum 30km.

Wish driver knew their worth but na financial pressure dey cause am

Em cancel straight. Very shameless and classless rider

Glithronix:
Una no even talk about the fare price.
From Gbagada to Abesan for 7.7k.
He's probably making a false order.
He looks like those fake order merchants.


Much respect, baba.

Possibly

TUBLEZ:
what a loving and caring husband 😃😃

Ac wey em no give am for house or car naim e dey stress driver.

Ok na

zegxy:
Lol, A fraud that rose to become the youngest chairman of the Fidelity bank. Pls can you introduce yourself apart from the 30k monthly data you are feasting on

Alaye rest abeg. I'm not contesting for president. Obi is a refined fraud not better than bobo Chicago that has sat on many boards also.

A man that used state funds to invest in family business and gave d state beer.

My beloved state. Abeg relax ooo

Gbadugbakun:
Bayo should tell us how much debt tinubu left as governor of Lagos and how much debt he has plunged Nigeria into as president. I usually say it. That man is a shameless fellow.


As for soludo. He should go and ask Rochas how far. Rochas literally sold imo to Muslims just to please the north. He spent billions of state funds to support buhari. During APC primaries he campaigned in hausa thinking they would vote for him.

Where is Rochas today? If soludo thinks the North would rally behind him for pushing his brother under the bus, he's a joker. Once his tenure expires he'll fade into Oblivion like Rochas.

What kind of gaslighting is this naaaaw...al D matter is dat Gregory said he left no debt did all d people u cited in ur examples say same

Gregory is a fraud

IGBOPROMISE1:
Dude, keep quiet! That response is apt and far-reaching!

The scale of which you speak is defective and any trader using it in the market for measuring goods is liable to be collared and dragged to court for deceit and contravening state trade laws!

Oya naw. I don hear sir. Obi can never be president did u know?

All he gave Anambra is hero beer what do u think he'll Nigeria as President....Veteran beer

dgr8truth:
The Anambra State Government has every right to respond to Peter Obi's claims, and the public deserves clarity on the state's finances. But a government statement this detailed should be held to the same standard of accuracy and evidence that it demands from the former governor.

There are several issues with this response.

First, the statement says Peter Obi "contracted US$123.77 Billion" in external debt. Yet the government's own table puts the total at US$123,771,179.30 — about US$123.77 million, not US$123.77 billion. That is a thousand-fold difference in a statement specifically intended to establish financial facts.

Second, the government needs to distinguish between a loan being contracted, a loan being disbursed, and money actually being spent. The fact that eight loans were signed during Obi's tenure does not, by itself, establish that the entire face value of those loans was drawn down or spent by his administration. The government should publish the disbursement records and expenditure records if it wants to make that case.

Third, nobody is arguing that a government cannot have debt. In fact, the government's own table shows that the loans were for malaria control, healthcare, education, erosion control, community development and agricultural development. The relevant questions are: How much was actually drawn? What was it spent on? What was the repayment structure? What remained outstanding at handover? And what assets or projects resulted from the borrowing?

Those are questions that can be answered with documents, not rhetoric.

The most interesting issue is the ₦2.13 billion ecological fund.

The government says it obtained a certified statement for First Bank account 2018779464 and that the account was an IGR Consolidated Revenue Account which never contained ₦2.13 billion. Peter Obi, on the other hand, says the account held more than ₦2.13 billion in ecological funds when he left office.

This is precisely where politics should end and accounting should begin.

If the government has the certified bank statement, publish the relevant pages.

Show the transactions around March 2014.

Show whether there was an inflow from the Federal Government.

Show the balance on March 17, 2014.

Show the subsequent transactions.

Show the handover documents.

Then Nigerians can independently determine what happened.

Simply saying, "the account never contained the money," while Peter Obi says it did, leaves the public with two competing assertions. The documentary evidence should settle the matter.

There is another important logical problem. Even if the government establishes that the ₦2.13 billion was not in that particular account, that does not automatically prove that the money was "missing" or that Peter Obi misappropriated it. It establishes a discrepancy that requires further investigation: where was the money received, into which account was it paid, when was it transferred, and who authorised the transaction?

Likewise, on salaries, pensions and gratuities, the government should publish a proper reconciliation. Tell us exactly what was owed as at March 17, 2014, when each liability originated, what Obi's administration verified, what it paid, and what remained outstanding.

The same principle applies to the alleged ₦75 billion savings. Rather than dismissing it as "creative accounting," publish the bank balances, investment certificates, treasury instruments and other financial assets that constituted the claimed savings at handover, together with the liabilities against them.

And yes, it is campaign season. We will inevitably see people defending their preferred political parties and candidates. Already, you will see APC supporters coming here to repeat whatever narrative suits their political allegiance, just as supporters of other parties do. But we should be careful not to allow partisan loyalty to replace critical thinking.

This politics of hatred, character assassination and deliberate image-tarnishing will not help our democracy. We should do better.

Governor Soludo is entitled to support whoever he chooses politically. It is already clear from his political alignment that he supports President Tinubu, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Every politician has the constitutional and democratic right to make political choices.

But government should not be turned into a vehicle for settling political scores or damaging the reputation of a former governor simply because he has become a political opponent.

Peter Obi is a former governor of Anambra State. His record should be examined objectively—just as the records of every other administration should be examined. If there are financial discrepancies, investigate them. If there are debts, publish the figures. If there is evidence of wrongdoing, present it. If there are claims that are false, disprove them with documents.

But let us move away from the politics of my party must be right and your person must be wrong."

Politics should be about accountability, evidence and ideas—not hatred.

The debate should not be:

"Peter Obi said this, Soludo's government said that."

It should be:

"Here are the audited accounts. Here are the bank statements. Here are the loan agreements. Here are the disbursement records. Here are the handover documents. Here is the reconciliation. Now let Nigerians examine the evidence."

That is the standard every government, every politician and every political supporter should be willing to meet.

Political arguments will come and go, but public money belongs to the people. The citizens of Anambra deserve the documents, the numbers and a transparent reconciliation—not competing political narratives.

My bro. I'm from Anambra and a Peter Obi has been placed on a scale and found wanting.

His a fraud. Atleast these are stated facts from the government make em respond na

Validated:
Goveis a continuum, Soludo should stop breathing and face governance.

Lol jokes on you.

He sha stated facts.

Hard facts