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FalseProphet1:
Remember that they buy ticket of 2k everyday)

lie Muhammad, how much is luxurious bus ticket per day?

Really

cenaman:
lie Muhammad, how much is luxurious bus ticket per day?

If you add all the money for the day they settle agbero whenever they load it's up to 2k, that's what I'm saying.

Excober08:
"I Met My Engineering Classmate Riding Keke Five Years After Graduation"

Dayo and Rukayat Studied Engineering at a University in kwara State. They were both Classmates and after Five years of Studying hard, they both graduated. After graduation, Fate took them through different paths of life.

5 Years later, Rukayat after much frustration of securing a job, ended up as a Secretary in a Building firm earning 50,000 Naira monthly.

Meanwhile, Dayo on the other hand, couldn't Secure a Job and ended up a Taxi Driver, He makes At least 5,000 daily and if he works for only 20 days in a month, He makes 100,000 Naira that month.

One Evening, Rukayat closed from work and was at the bus stop waiting for taxi when Dayo stopped. She hopped in when she discovered the taxi was going her way but little did she know it was Dayo. All through the journey, she was lost in her Phone.

She reached her bus Stop and after alighting, just when she was about paying, she took a look at the driver and their eyes met, wow! They were both happy.

"Is this you?" they both asked themselves simultaneously as if they planned it. Rukayat gave him money but Dayo insisted she keep it. He was happy to see her and for old time sake, he left the money for her even when she insisted that she wanted to pay. They both exchanged contact and left.

Well, Rukayat went home that night and was lost in thought. Not as if Dayo was looking bad but Dayo driving Taxi? She couldn't wrap her head around it. She Pitied him. Felt Sorry for him. If Dayo had allowed her she would have paid him and beg him to keep the change.

Little did she know that, Dayo actually has another Taxi running for him, He is a Land owner and he is planning on developing it soon. But because he was driving a Taxi, She felt Pity for him.

On the other hand, Dayo felt sorry for himself too. Before he slept that night, he remembered Rukayat, how neatly she dressed and nice she smells, "She must be earning over 300,000 Naira per month" he said to himself. He felt ashamed, He felt like a failure and he felt she was way ahead of him financially and otherwise.

Little did he know that, If Rukayat removes the transportation fare and feeding money from her monthly salary, it will take her at least 3 Months to earn what he earns monthly.

Sadly, this could be some of our reality, you measure your progress and success with that of your friends, Classmates and Relatives even with very limited information you have about them.

You think yours is worse because you look dirtier, you think yours is worse because you are not on Corporate wears, you think yours is worse because the other person acts and looks Nicer.

Stay Focused and Face your life. It's not a competition. Stop Comparing things, you don't have the full picture. Every one is running on his own lane. Be contented.

Be focused�.

life lessons

This story is in Macmillian books na

Very soon nw the will marry each other

I find this story, meaningless.

All fingers are my equal and balance

I can snap my comprehensive insurance policy for you. It is my personal car, of course I do comprehensive insurance for it. Comprehensive insurance doesn't mean insurance pays for your vehicle's natural wear and tear - which is the natural consequence of rigorous usage that transportation demands.

TheRealestGuy:
The mistake you might have made is not doing comprehensive insurance.

I have been burnt too by that business as an investor but now I understand better.

The only way to succeed in transportation business, and infact most businesses is making sure you have comprehensive insurance covering everything involved in that business, including you the owner.

Nuff said.

Delusional!
It is always "there is one man..", "I talked to one man"...
Nobody ever says "I am a millionaire from uber", or "I bought so so number of cars from uber".... No wonder politicians play you guys like f00ls, cos it is so easy to sell you stereotypes. Tueh

SavageBoy:
Talk about yourself alone.

Few months ago, I and my boss booked Uber after closure from work. On our way home, we were gisting with the uber guy. He told us he started driving uber on an hire purchase in 2016. 6 years later, in 2022 he already has 5 cars which he gave to other people to run uber.

He said he plan on getting a new car by August this year. He also said he plan on retiring from driving by the time he gets to 50 and having about 20 cars, from his looks, he look like he's in his early 40's

I now there's this stereotype of uber and taxify guys making it big, I don't know if it's true, I've never driven uber before, so I can't give you a firsthand experience.

But I know I've seen a couple of guys that have failed woefully as uber and taxify drivers, but one thing that stood out from this uber guy's success is his focus and hard work. Even the car we entered that day looked like one that was bought the previous week, meanwhile it's more than a year plus.

The truth is that transport guys whether keke, danfor or uber/taxify generally have the potential of making it bigger than the average 9-5 white collar graduates in Nigeria.

Money dey transport business . Just that a lot of these drivers lack vision for their business coupled with their wasteful lifestyle.

Laird:
DONT LET THE OP DECEIVE YOU

All this rubbish meaningless motivational talk encouraging mediocrity. If all graduates start driving tricycles or taxis or start hawking, those business will become crowded and saturated and prices will drop to unsustainable levels and even those who don't have access to education would not have that options.
Let us stop.getting used to and justifying suffering and government failure. How may South African Engineers are driving tricycles. How may South African Software engineers are driving taxis

No economy is built by low level service jobs. Nigeria as a country has crude oil and we don't produce enough millions of petrol for daily consumption and the government cannot galvanize companies to produce and refine enough petroleum from the crude.oil.and in the process employ engineers. We have serious infrastructure deficit of roads, buildings and houses and seaports and electricity and the government cannot galvanize companies to solve these.problems.and.in the process employ engineers.

Engineering, software,. healthcare, infrastructure is the basis of the economy and a middle class who can afford goods.
Nigeria has population but contributes very little revenue to most big corporations because of poor.purchasing power.
Dstv; Biggest Market; South Africa
Music; Nigeria is not among the first 20 biggest music spenders in the world

Facebook; America and Europe.. Nigerian's use it but are not even top 40 customers by country

Same with Google, Twitter , likely Instagram too



Even Iroko online video does not get sufficient Nigerian country customers but Customers from American, Europe and Canada


Why are things getting more expensive. Because we import everything in dollars

Petroleum
Wheat
Used Cars
Medicine
Medical Laboratory equipment
Power genrators


We have science and agriculture graduates that should be employed if the government had put the right companies to locally manufacture these items and create jobs.

Those graduates will buy cars, houses , pay fees, open side business etc thereby forming a middle class who build the economy and create wealth

To achieve all these you've mentioned, vote Peter Obi for president come February 2023.

FalseProphet1:
Most Keke routs are N100, multiplied by 4 passengers is N400, (remember that they buy ticket of 2k everyday) how many trips would you go with N400 to make it 5k...that's about 12 trips and you'd still have to buy fuel and remove 2k for your ticket. You'd be left with less than 2k.

You should also remember that upon reaching your destination with your passengers you'd have to queue up and wait for your turn before you can reload.

It's almost impossible to make such amount in this Buhari's government.

This I have seen.

It’s possible I have a friend That make more than that amount

wonder233:
I can snap my comprehensive insurance policy for you. It is my personal car, of course I do comprehensive insurance for it. Comprehensive insurance doesn't mean insurance pays for your vehicle's natural wear and tear - which is the natural consequence of rigorous usage that transportation demands.

Natural wear and tear will not eat up your profits in terms of repair costs but we both know the kind of issues that are expensive to fix in cars and those can be mostly avoided by comprehensive insurance but most people don't do it.

This is not the place for the discussion but having dabbled in that business twice, I've had the benefit of hindsight and understand that though comprehensive insurance is not the panacea to the hydra headed challenges in transportation business, it can be key to staying above water.

The full discussion is not one I'm disposed to having right now so yea...I'll take a rain check.

All the best though and hope you're doing something better now.

Adliperd:
Rukayat went home that night and was lost in thought. Not as if Dayo was looking bad but Dayo driving Taxi? She couldn't wrap her head around it. She Pitied him. Felt Sorry for him. If Dayo had allowed her she would have paid him and beg him to keep the change.

Little did she know that, Dayo actually has another Taxi running for him, He is a Land owner and he is planning on developing it soon. But because he was driving a Taxi, She felt Pity for him.


Explain how u get this information jare. Miss mind reader

its a made up story

Please I have a question., is dayo riding keke or taxi?

My own consign be say I'm broke by default and comparing school mates no be my thing Sha..

Wetin consign brick layer with reunion

SavageBoy:
Talk about yourself alone.

Few months ago, I and my boss booked Uber after closure from work. On our way home, we were gisting with the uber guy. He told us he started driving uber on an hire purchase in 2016. 6 years later, in 2022 he already has 5 cars which he gave to other people to run uber.

He said he plan on getting a new car by August this year. He also said he plan on retiring from driving by the time he gets to 50 and having about 20 cars, from his looks, he look like he's in his early 40's

I now there's this stereotype of uber and taxify guys making it big, I don't know if it's true, I've never driven uber before, so I can't give you a firsthand experience.

But I know I've seen a couple of guys that have failed woefully as uber and taxify drivers, but one thing that stood out from this uber guy's success is his focus and hard work. Even the car we entered that day looked like one that was bought the previous week, meanwhile it's more than a year plus.

The truth is that transport guys whether keke, danfor or uber/taxify generally have the potential of making it bigger than the average 9-5 white collar graduates in Nigeria.

Money dey transport business . Just that a lot of these drivers lack vision for their business coupled with their wasteful lifestyle.

this is exactly what I told my friend, if you see the way the spend money 9n drinks, girls, etc, if the can manage and save like salary earners, they would have alot of money. One guy who ride bike told me how he made 13k in a single day

emmanuelbrown26:
Gbam, its for serious minded and obediently people, not for those that are not ready for a real change in their lives

Truth.

wonder233:
Delusional!
It is always "there is one man..", "I talked to one man"...
Nobody ever says "I am a millionaire from uber", or "I bought so so number of cars from uber".... No wonder politicians play you guys like f00ls, cos it is so easy to sell you stereotypes. Tueh

Oga you're the deluded one here.

Go back and read the 4th paragraph of my comment again.

You might have failed when you tried the transport sector, but that doesn't change the fact that transport is a lucrative enterprise. And beside not everybody are bound to start out and succeed in a particular business venture. There will surely be successes and failures. But the success and failure rate will most often not be equal

Tech is the new oil but some software engineers are still struggling to survive. But that doesn't change the fact that tech is lucrative.

I'm not the only one that have said transport is lucrative. People have said it before me and more will still continue to say it. And you can't tell me we are all deluded.

If transport didn't work for you, it just didn't work for you. God and maybe only you knows why it didn't work for you. But that doesn't change the fact that transport business is quite lucrative

Moral lesson, Don't bother going to school in Nigeria, cuz ur jus wasting ur time

LUAN:
this is exactly what I told my friend, if you see the way the spend money 9n drinks, girls, etc, if the can manage and save like salary earners, they would have alot of money. One guy who ride bike told me how he made 13k in a single day

Although I believe Uber drivers make so much money oooh, but mark my words, a bike rider making 13k in a day, is a lie. Sometimes, some of these transport or menial job people lie about their income in order to gain recognition and relevance cos they have this feeling of low self esteem when they come across you and see how nicely dress u look.

FalseProphet1:
Most Keke routs are N100, multiplied by 4 passengers is N400, (remember that they buy ticket of 2k everyday) how many trips would you go with N400 to make it 5k...that's about 12 trips and you'd still have to buy fuel and remove 2k for your ticket. You'd be left with less than 2k.

You should also remember that upon reaching your destination with your passengers you'd have to queue up and wait for your turn before you can reload.

It's almost impossible to make such amount in this Buhari's government.

This I have seen.

If it's this hard everyday we won't see Keke riders, yes it's a very hard job, nothing is easy. While a trip is 400, they can make 800 on same trip cuz all passengers won't probably get to the bus stop, and carry others on the way. There is no way Keke riders pay 2k daily fr ticket, that's a big lie

The keyword is to be contended, she does not know that having chains of business is far better than working in government or private sector.

Excober08:
"I Met My Engineering Classmate Riding Keke Five Years After Graduation"

Dayo and Rukayat Studied Engineering at a University in kwara State. They were both Classmates and after Five years of Studying hard, they both graduated. After graduation, Fate took them through different paths of life.

5 Years later, Rukayat after much frustration of securing a job, ended up as a Secretary in a Building firm earning 50,000 Naira monthly.

Meanwhile, Dayo on the other hand, couldn't Secure a Job and ended up a Taxi Driver, He makes At least 5,000 daily and if he works for only 20 days in a month, He makes 100,000 Naira that month.

One Evening, Rukayat closed from work and was at the bus stop waiting for taxi when Dayo stopped. She hopped in when she discovered the taxi was going her way but little did she know it was Dayo. All through the journey, she was lost in her Phone.

She reached her bus Stop and after alighting, just when she was about paying, she took a look at the driver and their eyes met, wow! They were both happy.

"Is this you?" they both asked themselves simultaneously as if they planned it. Rukayat gave him money but Dayo insisted she keep it. He was happy to see her and for old time sake, he left the money for her even when she insisted that she wanted to pay. They both exchanged contact and left.

Well, Rukayat went home that night and was lost in thought. Not as if Dayo was looking bad but Dayo driving Taxi? She couldn't wrap her head around it. She Pitied him. Felt Sorry for him. If Dayo had allowed her she would have paid him and beg him to keep the change.

Little did she know that, Dayo actually has another Taxi running for him, He is a Land owner and he is planning on developing it soon. But because he was driving a Taxi, She felt Pity for him.

On the other hand, Dayo felt sorry for himself too. Before he slept that night, he remembered Rukayat, how neatly she dressed and nice she smells, "She must be earning over 300,000 Naira per month" he said to himself. He felt ashamed, He felt like a failure and he felt she was way ahead of him financially and otherwise.

Little did he know that, If Rukayat removes the transportation fare and feeding money from her monthly salary, it will take her at least 3 Months to earn what he earns monthly.

Sadly, this could be some of our reality, you measure your progress and success with that of your friends, Classmates and Relatives even with very limited information you have about them.

You think yours is worse because you look dirtier, you think yours is worse because you are not on Corporate wears, you think yours is worse because the other person acts and looks Nicer.

Stay Focused and Face your life. It's not a competition. Stop Comparing things, you don't have the full picture. Every one is running on his own lane. Be contented.

Be focused�.

I love this write up. So motivating

The point of this post I think is to avoid assumptive competition. Not to encourage anyone to be a Keke driver or what not.

One thing to note is that the payment, keeping or not keeping of the change was an esteem tussle between the two. Very common in Nigeria. They were not giving as an act of charity, but to show the next person they are doing better. Which is the same reason many want to get rich in Nigeria anyways. No other tangible reason.

Gratitude is bae.

Kriely:
Vote BAT 2023 to take Nigeria to another level.

like another level of destruction right.. suffer no tire you?

harsysky:
You write well for a young man, but your comprehension skill is below par. The overall statement isn't for people to go into transportation business. It is for people to appreciate whatever hustle they find themselves doing without looking down on themselves or another. Shikena

It's dumb of You to attempt to rate my comprehension skill and call Me a young man. Get some manners. If You are happy with mediocrity, don't go and vote for a working government

Almost all graduates Don turn uber drivers finish... There's dignity in labour... The sleep of a man who labour is sweet, whether he eats little or small

wonder233:
Don't mind these stereotypes people are peddling. A keke driver doesn't earn shyt. A danfo driver doesn't earn zilch, an uber driver doesn't earn nothing. You just toil and toil and whatever you make goes into repairs and maintenance. I have driven uber before, my own car, sharp tokunbo. I did it diligently for 2years. I realised it was a fruitless job. The app companies just use you as slave labour, people in the larger society think you're making mad money all because of a stereotype someone said a long time ago when it newly came out. Till date, ignorant people still argue with me ontop something I personally had experience on. The sooner we realise transportation isn't one gold mine, the better for everyone cos it is making people mentally lazy, any small thing, people will go and get corolla to be doing uber, keke or okada to be driving.
Actual productivity, brain work, tangible skills are superior to these driving jobs

Every job is lucrative until it becomes overcrowded.
Don't be surprised that the absence of the so called white collar jobs today that every graduate feels entitled to is due to the over populated number of graduates the poor Nigeria educational system chunk out every year.
The bottom line is you need to be creative,focus and innovative in creating your own success story,not minding if you passed through the four walls of a school or not.

artworks1:
Stop misleading people like it's one hell of a smooth and easy ride for keke napep riders.
You buy fuel, you fix your keke, you pay for ticket and what about the stress? No be money you go spend take fix all these things?

bros did u think Keke driver make just 5k per day, the op is talking about the amount he saves. An average Keke driver make nothing less than 10k daily and 5k can be for maintenance and rest

Let him vote for Peter Obi if he needs job

franchasofficia:
Op it doesn't matter, one of my course mates also did conductor and rode keke after graduation but today he is an American citizen and have a great career that earns him around $80,000 annual.


Life is in stages and phases, nobody can predict the outcome of life in 30 years from today, so whatever you find yourself doing for a living, so long as it is legitimate, please do it diligently for it is just a stage and a phase in your life which will definitely pass away.