Pls please shut your piehole and get your head outta your arse What is unreasonable about having an ounce of compassion for people trying to make ends meet
Do you think people that trade on the street in the burning sun wish to do so?

Do you think they would not like to trade in the comfort of their own shops, secure in the knowledge that their wares are safe?

Do you think those that send children as young as 5 to hawk oranges, not worth more than N100, are happy their children are subject to the danger that comes with weaving in and out of traffic?

Do you even realise that some of this traders do not even a month's rent to provide, talkless of the two/three years they usually have to pay upfront?

Has it occured to you that a month's rent might even be more than what some people have to sell?

There are street market all over Europe and US for traders who cannot afford to rent shops, so why the noise?

What is wrong if he subsidises the shops to them at an affordable rate?

What is wrong with providing soft loans and grants help people who wanna start up their businesses, instead of everyone hankering to work in banks and oil companies

Small time now they would be the same ones complaining that girls are doing Ashewo, whilst the guys are doing yahoo yahoo and committing armed-robberies, yet are ready to condemn those who are only trying to make a decent living with the little they have

Kudos to Fasola if he is serious about finishing what he started, but that does not excuse the fact that he is immoral and wicked and heartless. How does he sleep at night

No sir, we support him cos we want Lagos to progress from dirty, unorganized city to a clean and well-organized one.

Which trades and jobs  Stalls mounted on the highway  How unreasonable can u possibly be 

Lets have ur better plan for Lagos, who knows, Fashola may go for it. 

Oga rancetech, answer farotika's question now.

@rancetech
I can see how you feel 4 pple who left the market empty only to trade on the highway and the same pple like you will say Lagos is dirty and full of traffic Fashola may welcome your opinion. Let me give you a clue, every 100 days, he holds meeting with pple who have been assigned to look at the probs of the grassroot, Look out for the next 100 days and join them at the meeting to give your suggestions cos your idea is a waste on NL.

If every competitive product/services have to struggle for customers in the same manner, then, I think banks and other production companies should by now leave their offices for the road sides to trade their services against their competitors.

I can remember when the oshodi traders were still there, when drivers will load passengers, collect fares at the same point, stand still for 30mins begging traders to move their goods, which they will refuse to do or do after they have attended to their customers with a condition that their goods must not be touched by the bus and the driver leaves the point only to go and join the traffic ahead. Aba you guys are ungrateful

My guys, God bless you 10 times for your statements. Should such things have existed in the first place? As for alternatives hasn't the Lagos trade fair has been in existence for years of which we all know can accommodate these bogus Oshodi traders but to generate 100% profit they decided to establish themselves on public roads and walkways.

See how long they been asking car sellers at Berger along Tin can to move to the trade air (approx 7 years ago) and they've persisted despite parking on the expressway and overhead bridge which is already causing structural damage.

As for the idiots gearing towards tribalism ----- Haba na today!!! They see red and call it blue to justify their lawless nature ---- Pls look for another excuse as Lagos indigenes were amongst the worst hit.

Someone mentioned Lagos Island Markets as well earlier in the forum!! Again na today!! Wasn't Balogun Market cleared------abi Balogun dey Badagry for your eye!!  Angry

Finally someone is doing something after years of mismanagement and lack of planning yet people complain.

As for those asking the government to make alternatives before clearing these so called illegal traders I ask you

1. Were these so called Oshodi traders born by the Market in the first place or didn’t they relocated there for illegal trading purposes ?

2. Are Lagos illegal markets the only place in Nigeria where people can trade successful and yield good profits. Abi other metropolitans or states no dey naija again?

Despite the large populace living in cities like New York, London, Barcelonia, Johannesburg & even Accra you still don't find market-places as lawless or unplanned as Oshodi; If the available legal Oshodi shops cannot accomodate all traders then it's for the traders to find other legal suitable locations for trade not establish themselves on the road. 

Faithful Govenor abeg carry go !!, I'm based in England but will endeavor to come home and vote for you during the next elections. Finally a bit of sanity in dear Lasgidis.

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Are you mad?

but when idiots are posting photos of gutters and Lagos slums, Nigerians start applauding.

When it comes to practical steps to get rid of gutters and slums, then another mood sets in. Its persecution. 

I tire.

What Jobless? Were they supposed to be there in the first place??

What is wrong with people? I mean if they do. . . you complain. If they don't do, you complain. 

If you have a perfect plan, please let's hear it ooooh. . . internet experts.

Besides they are moving them to where there are supposed to be. . . the real market not on the freaking roadside.

i was speaking to a girl whose dad is a director in the Lagos state government and she said the governor said he is trying to rid the state of non-indigenes.

this got me so incensed.

now i cant for sure confirm the comments from the girl but  if he really made that statement then he has lost the plot and undone every good deed he may have done.

its all well and good shutting aswani and ridding oshodi of traders but how about the people who only sourse of income is selling 'bend down select', 'bread and akara' etc?

i hope he''s building or setting up a site for these people.

Hi,

I hope this reply is not too late. However, I think you'll still need it in order to improve the profit margins of the cafe.

First of all, I'll need answers to the following questions to enable me help you better;

1. How many functional PCs are there in the cafe?
2. What bandwidth is he using?
3. How reliable is their ISP?

While waiting for those answers from you, this is what he needs to do immediately. Choose anyone in any order below;

1. Create a "Pick & Win" Bonanza where each person that buys at least a 1hour ticket dips his/her hand into a basket to win a price. The price(s) should be more airtime (i.e. 30mins, 1hr & 3hrs tickets). Put in about 20 free tickets (3hr(4), 1hr (6), 30mins (10). The aim here is to have as many as 20 people win free tickets every day. Make sure you have up to 200 'Please Try Again' tickets in the basket. Exactly 1week to the bonanza date, start advertising within your cafe to walk-in customers that you are going to be giving out 20 free tickets everyday from a certain date(which will be your take off date) and you must give a reason for doing this which in this case will be for the Xmas celebrations (you can still use it as a New Year's gift). Don't give the details until 1day before the main day. This will create anxiety and buzz as in each customer will tell at least 2 or 3 friends.

Don't bother about the first day, you may not make much because people will be there just to see if its for real (you know us 9ja's now) but once they see people winning and most importantly, those that win will certainly tell their friends and you'll begin to notice a steady increase in sales from Mid-day of day 2.

Run this bonanza for 14days or 21days maximum.

Sorry I can't give you actual step-by-step details in this post but I hope you get the message. Now let's move on to the next idea,

2. Offer a never before seen ticket with huge amount of time for a premium fee and make that look exclusive. What I mean is this,  Have a ticket containing up to 48hours or more worth of airtime with 21days or at most 30days validity. Then put the price at N1,200 (that's like N31 per hour). Make this ticket available only between your slow hours. In my case I made it available b/w 8am - 9am only.

Now before you ask any question, let me clear something.

This ticket will be useable at any other time of the day but the customer has to buy it b/w that time frame and at least login to activate it. The reason for that is that it allows the customer to come to your cafe early and if he has to login, then he'll at least spend some of the airtime before leaving. Also it stops customers from just buying the time and leaving or worse still asking staff to buy the time and keep for them. (These are from my experiences in trying out this system.) Also I can't give entire details in this post that is why I've summarised it so you can understand.

This tactic alone made me an average of N12,000 daily b/w the hours of 8am - 9am for 2 weeks. I'm not adding what was made throughout the rest of the day.

Let me leave you with these two for now. I hope you can make good use of it.

Remember,  if you don't try it, you'll never know if it'll work in your situation. You don't have anything to loose.

I hope this helps you and any other person who'd like to implement this in his/her cafe.

I've been trying to put together an extensive manual to help fellow cafe owners improve on their cybercafe business.

The most common problems I hear about is Power, Power, Power and then that of ISPs and I totally agree that these are very serious issues but should we continue to complain and make excuses? or should we rather find solutions to the teething problems? you tell me.

I know there are lots and lots of ways to work around these and many other problems and thus make the cybercafe business what we expect it to be.

I can only share what people are interested in. So if you feel this information is useful or will be useful to you or anyone you know, then leave a comment below.

Please Note: When I talked about a manual, I don't want you to think this is a ploy to put up those N5,000 - N9,000 re-hashed reports (copied from other people's info). I'm talking about real life experiences of strategies you can put to good use right away to improve you cybercafe earnings for a premium price of free,  YES, you read that right. It'll be 100% free and the information you'll receive will blow you away.

Was this helpful? then let other cybercafe owners know about it.

Maximum Success To You & Yours in 2G9.

both of 'em are nearly same Undecided

@ ben20001
You definitely don't know what you are saying!

They are definitely not the same! 

If someone leaves you, you're are hurt and you hate the person at that moment but most normal humans won't wish death on that person i.e  no matter how bad a person hurts you, you still want them alive and kicking.

If you lose the person to death, there are so many "would have beens" there. He might have died still actively loving you and that would hurt a whole lot more. 

Jeez, I can't even think about it.  :

Either it is true or not commit your ways into God's hand before u leave your home every morning. shi kena

So whats the Question?

Are you asking us if you are stupid?

Yeah, You are a living proof someone can live without a brain.

@ Gamine
You are a complete bad girl!!! I have not stopped laughing for the past few minutes.

The conduct of these tanker drivers and their demands is very unreasonable! Why would they imagine that they will be treated differentlt because they carry fuel from depot to station? It is madness! We must create an alternative to them.Imagine one of their leaders saying that since BRT buses have dedicated lanes, they should get some priority too. I can't even seem to figure out what their demands are. How does their going on strike and making everyone miserable solve our road problems?

what an xmas gift indeed.'them say e go beta e worse pass as e bad' i had to trek to work this morning. lol

Finally making sense; good!

Finally making sense; good!