₦airaland Forum

cyif2003:
omo picking on d road na offense in Lagos state. I no wan start wetin go later hook me

There's a bus stop before that park. All you needed to do was to clear very well at the bus stop and call your rider to meet you there.

In Lagos, if someone looks at you with dirty eyes, you look them back. If they try to misbehave, you have your leg on your accelerator bro...clear everyone 😄

With Bolt adopting the fastest finger method, I hereby declare Indrive the KING and market leader of ehailing business in Lagos.

I have never seen a competitor lose the originality and business identity as Bolt. Bolt has literally copied Indrive in everything but 10% commission.

Now that they have introduced fasted finger, can they just remove the acceptance rate? Because I wonder what determines the acceptance rate.

Is it the trips that I did not accept and nobody else accepted it too or what?

WareLogMan:
I think this was where they nabbed him
That's the only valid one way around yaba tech and unilag at the moment.

He should have negotiated his way out.
That's was sad

Their office is at that Edmund Crescent. They will not accept any negotiation. I've picked a woman at that Lastma office on Edmund Crescent that Lastma billed 200k for one way.

She said her driver was driving on Montgomery road and turned left at the end of the road to join Herbert Macaulay Way. They clearly saw the no left turn sign there and she told the driver not to turn but he did and the car was impounded. Those people at Yaba are taking you to their office straight.

Last week Friday, I picked a rider inside the Lastma office, Oshodi. Her Lexus 350 was impounded at Mile 12 because she stopped on the service lane to buy pineapple and those task force hilux blocked her.

When they asked her to settle, she said she only had 5k to give, they refused and booked her 50k in their office.

This woman works with civil defense but those Lastma guys didn't send her ID card.

So, it's not about being an ehailing driver or not, they impound any and every car. I've even seen them hold Gwagon on that bridge heading to Ojota from Maryland.

Kingbrighto:
they were so much and they were dragging the key with me and fighting me , I had to follow them to the office and I’ve been booked and told to pay 152,500 , what is the way forward

You mean you drove left towards the university road from the Herbert Macaulay Way? Were you trying to connect Herbert Macaulay Way to go to Jibowu or what?

Because if you meant to go to Unilag or Yaba area and were using your maps, it would have taken you through Tobi Lawal road.

And if it's the latter, did you see any other car drive through that route?

The way forward to avoid situations like this is to wait and observe the road to see if people are successfully driving through the road and the second option is to ask people around.

Also, was your glass wound down? How come they're dragging the steering with you? One rule I give myself is to always wind up my glasses anytime I want to do something unusual or find myself in a suspicious place, that way, I can use the maximum speed and get out of the situation.

Glithronix:
Same with indrive, since Tuesday.
Na brain person take survive.
Na why I only did soft work on those days.
I just hope this weekend no be like so.


Much respect, boss.

I think drivers are the ones enabling these guys. Imagine 1k ride on Indrive. We've gone back to pre-subsidy removal era when fuel was sold for 198/litre.

How will any rational human being take such trips. I mean, you'll have to drive to where this person is, wait for them to come out, take the disrespect and risk of taking them to their destination, sometimes, even carry heavy load or many riders and collect such amount of money?

Bolt has gone mad with their pricing. Why reduce the fares even further?

mimilogistics:
We currently don't have offices outside Lagos but we are working towards setting up an office in Onitsha and Kano.


For now, when your goods arrives our office in Lagos and you are notified of the arrival of your goods via Whatsapp message, you can liaise with our Lagos staffs to help you waybill your goods to any state in Nigeria at your own bargain.

How do you handle the shipping cost. At what point is it determined and paid for? Do you charge per kg?

I'm interested in bringing goods from 1688 to Nigeria but I need to understand your shipping charges

olawaleatanda:
bypass the vehicle document since they're stubborn

You're kidding right? As an admin that I am?

Being at the mercy of another person is the worst thing that can happen to anybody.

Imagine I was chasing this bonus. Have done 7 trips already, remaining 7, before Bolt sent me a mail that my account is paused because of my driver's license.

Something I've sent to them earlier that my permanent one is not yet out and I was given extension in my temporary one.

cyif2003:
This is d category I can see

Write to them to add the Economy category for you. Even though it's only valid this festive period.

I don't use economy category if it's not surging no matter how long it takes for me to get a ride on Bolt Category.

cyif2003:
I usually feel this is done automatically by d app.

Nope, you toggle it on and off. Same way a rider chooses which category to book the ride from.

Pearl1910:
Recently Bolt has been varying in Commission charges between 10% and 20%.
Only raise alarm when d commission is above 20%.
Secondly, the Booking fees varies. If u do 10trips worth 100k it's lesser than if u do 20trips worth same 100k. The more the trips the higher the deductible.

This one is not a booking fee thing. The booking fee is lesser in the one I did 101,100. It's just the Commision that is way too high

cyif2003:
Omo today dry ohh. Everywhere red but no trips

In this business, you need to learn how to switch between apps and categories.

When it's surging real hard, the price becomes outrageous for riders to book normal Bolt Category, they go for the Economy category.

In order to get orders, you need to switch on your Economy.

Good thing is, Economy on surge isn't that bad. Most trips within Shomolu, Yaba, Surulere axis are booked on Economy category.

Can someone explain this? I made 97,300 on the 5th of June and my take home was 76,972. While on the 6th, I made 101,100 and my net is 75,585.

How did I make more gross and less net? Why did I pay 15,634 on a 97,300 gross and then paid 21,184 on a 101,100 gross? Bolt!

Muhammadson2020:
You sure na u get his accant ? I can smell copy and paste Photoshop mixed A.I

Next time, don't make that generisation bro. It's an insult to our collective hustle.

Cheers 🥂

Muhammadson2020:
. 16k fuel ? U dey wine me nii ? Na Suzuki pressaro U dey drive . Because na Una dey spoil work for us. Dem dey carry any price wey dem see. Fastest finger crew

I think both you and your car are the problem. You need to review the tool you use for the hustle. I drive corolla bro and it doesn't drink fuel.

I ensure I don't do too much long pick up. You need to know maths and numbers to make it in this business.

Because if I drive 3km to go pick someone. I factor that into the total kilometre for the trip to determine if it's worth the price.

Muhammadson2020:
With all your gra gra I am very sure money wey dey your bank account no go make sense. Big money on the app and shikini money in the bank account. O pari

I'm laughing at your ignorance. I will school you later in the evening when I return back from the hustle.

Meanwhile this is just a fraction of my savings in my Stanbic IBTC money mutual fund account.

Muhammadson2020:
Bro talk is cheap online, anybody can claim to be anything. People come here to fake it here, Millionaire or Billionaire driving Uber. I deal with reality and proofs not mere saying. Show us your bank statements. Screen your daily earnings to correlate with your write up , Na so una go dey sell Zobo give us here. Tomorrow somebody will carry 5 milllion Naira and invest in Uber businesses that won't give him expected returns, Abeg stop deceiving people here.

Your type is the reason riders look down on drivers as paupers. I carried some guys today from Maryland to MM1.

They alighted from a Bolt ride. The driver picked them up at Surulere heading to the airport before his tyre bursted. The guy doesn't have a spare tyre, you can imagine that.

Muhammadson2020:
Bro talk is cheap online, anybody can claim to be anything. People come here to fake it here, Millionaire or Billionaire driving Uber. I deal with reality and proofs not mere saying. Show us your bank statements. Screen your daily earnings to correlate with your write up , Na so una go dey sell Zobo give us here. Tomorrow somebody will carry 5 milllion Naira and invest in Uber businesses that won't give him expected returns, Abeg stop deceiving people here.

My today's net on Bolt and Indrive.

I used 16k fuel. Do the maths sir.

I will send you screenshot of my account balance

Omoapena:
wow, congrats bro
what documents were you given along for the land and from which real estate?

The Estate's global CofO, the survey plan, and the Deed of Assignment.

I got it from Arcview investment company. They're located at Anthony on Ikorodu road, very close to Uber Inspection Centre

Ajibaiye:
This is what I want to be reading as a newbie, please where in Mowe ? And what price?
Also, do you have a good mechanic that can fix my Corolla 2010 incase any issues ?

I bought it in installments at 4.5 million total package.

That land now is selling for 20+ millions, total package for half plot.

The estate is along that Mowe - Ofada road. The Mowe market road.

When I bought it, the road is not that good but now one side of the road is completely tarred down to Ofada. That caused a massive appreciation in the prices of land in that axis. It's a 45 minutes drive from my house in Shomolu.

I don't recommend mechanics, they're all the same Kazeem.

The only issue I have with driving is the body pain. It seems too stressful for my type. That's why I'm doing everything humanly possible to establish other businesses.

It's not something that someone should do for a long time and also, the pain now may come back to hunt in later years.

Muhammadson2020:
. Stop capping. You re a big fat Liar. 99% of drivers cant save 1 million naira in a year including you. We have been this in shiit for long, we know as e dey go. How you wan take save 1M ? You no go buy fuel @890, you no go repair car at inflation prices? you no pay commission? With these cheap cheap prices you wan take save 2.5 million a year, you must be high on cheap weed . Bros I just fixed my car last week from money that I have saving since January 2025, AC cost me #268,000 naira and suspension repairs cost #165,000 naira. Total of #433,000 naira. My account balance dey read minus as I am taking to you now. It's Iike I started a fresh again. In fact I had to borrow money from a friend to add to the one I have to fix the car. I have done a survey with alot of drivers to find out how much they have after hustling the whole year, most don't even have savings, they are leaving hand to mouth. The way this hustle is going, alot of sensible people will quit it soon. Because the cost of running it is becoming more expensive than the profit you make.

I don'attach the Receipt to show. I no like to dey sell zobo. I am not a fan of giving people high hopes.

Bro, our realities are different. I don't know the type of car you use and the condition.

But I must tell you that I net minimum of 40k every day that I go out there to drive the full day.

I got my car as Tokunbo in 2019 and have been using it on the platform since that time.

If you are part of the drivers that sit down under the mango tree to gist when your mates are hustling, or those that go to anywhere belle face, then don't complain when others are making investments with their earnings.

To me, any driver that cannot save ordinary 500k a month should just quit the hustle and go back to his village.

I met one driver at my mechanic workshop who told me that he recently moved to Ikorodu because he couldn't afford rent at Shomolu. This guy said no ehailing driver can afford to live in Shomolu, I spat on his face.

Not only do I live in Shomolu, the estate I bought land and about to develop in Mowe has 40% of the home and land owners as diasporians.

You can continue to sample opinions of your fellow lazy drivers, because as for my type, you won't even see me idle enough to ask any questions

Muhammadson2020:
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5 million in 2 years ? after car repairs, feeding, fuelling, utilities bills, House rent, personal expenses, and other bills

You must be high on a cheap weed

What's so difficult in saving 2.5 million per annum? Any serious driver nets at least one million naira in the month of December.

So tell me why a driver cannot recover 5 million in 2 years?

Kobojunkie:
That makes no sense! Are you insinuating that if one's father did not leave any wealth behind for his own children, he therefore cannot be expected to do otherwise? Are you OK at all?

2. Definitely, the women who reward these bad fathers with children they are aware will not live a life better than theirs are equally to blame.

3. He can still live his life while ensuring he places blame where it belongs, which is with his father and mother failed at being better parents and providers.

You’re the one that's not okay bro.

If his father is expected to make it despite not coming from a privileged background, the poster should make it too by correcting his father's mistake.

MrHandsome2013:
He should have been a rev father,
He knew his kids will find life unbearable why did not first sort his life before getting married,

Did his father leave any wealth for him as you expect him to leave for you? If he was born in a poor background and you are also born in the same poor background, then do what you expected him to do so your children will not be born in a poor background too.

You're blaming your father alone, what happened to your mother? She's also an adult with complete body, so she's capable of working and giving you the good life.

Sometimes people don't think. I'm sure you're an adult already so get up and create the life you desire and stop blaming your father.

Ajibaiye:
Nairalanders please which one is vehicle registration certificate? See attached

Am trying to register online the App

Vehicle registration certificate is your car licence I think. Check your car papers, you'll see the one with that title.

YeyeGbami:
You might find it hard to believe, I’ve been rejecting island trips for more than 2 yrs now. From mainland if you see island trip, the price go look huge and most drivers will jump at it.

when you finish collect money. You go begin receive trips to places wey you no sabi, some useless area na so so sand and water. (If you sabi island routes you no get issues) Not to mention that lekki epe traffic, when you wan come mainland back you go begin find wetin no lost 😂

If you sabi mainland road well, i will advise you to stick 2 mainland trips. On mainland too you go filter trips to places you know say road no worse.

I used to force myself to go to Island when the price made sense but not anymore. Island is full of short trips, the only meaningful long trips that you will do is to Lekki Phase II and Ajah axis which I hate to go because of traffic and inaccessibility.


It gets worse in the evening when you can spend extra 20 minutes just to make a turn from one side of the road to the other.

And Google maps flops so well in locating those estates in Phase II. Due to the fact that most of those estates are interlinked but they used gate to block the access.

I work on the mainland only. I only avoid Ikorodu, Alimosho, Apapa, Festac axis.

braveboi4life:
Driving through Futo from the main gate at Obinze axis to the exit gate leading to ihiagwa will take you less than 12mins
From Unizik main gate on onitsha enugu express to exit gate leading to ifite will take you more time not minding diverting to senate building and school hostel

Check it bro

I drove through Unizik from the back gate to the front gate in less than 5 mins. Unizik no reach Futo anywhere in terms of land mass bro.

After the academic buildings, you'll drive through thick bushes inside Futo to Ihiagwa axis.

braveboi4life:
What's the source of your data

Futo is at the back of my villa, drive through futo to other neighbouring villages often, I schooled in Unizik, awka, I doubt if futo is larger in land mass.

With this i doubt other numbers you are presenting

You know how long you'll drive from Futo main gate before you start seeing the first academic building? Futo is very big bro. I visit Futo very often.

Elusive001:
The intelligence of children is from their mothers and not fathers.

Not 100%