₦airaland Forum

vasel15:
I always ask myself if Nigerians are mentally OK? Ask yourself are Nigerians ok mentally?

How would you be talking about Osibanjo, I don't believe in Nigeria anymore but, Osibanjo? Really?

This man's boss destroyed Nigeria

I don't think Obama destroyed the USA so its OK for his former vice to take over

I don't pity you Nigerians because you are all iti boribos

You deserve to suffer

Carry on, if not because of ban I would call you people slowpokes

I feel your pain bro.

Nigerians have to be the daftest creatures on this planet!

As in, super duper daft!!

Fela already told you how they love to suffer and smile.

Ordinary water to bathe, they don’t have, but will die for corrupt beasts, abegggg

helinues:
Stop taking Panadol on others headache. Worry much about your region that is in dilapidated situation

May God heal your wicked heart my guy!

Their environment is degraded

Their leaders are thieves

Their countrymen are bigger thieves stealing all their resources to manage the country.

The air they breathe is polluted.

They can’t even fish in some areas again due to pollution.

....

After all these someone will tell you to go back to your village, after their oil was used to develop the country.

Oil price falls and Nigeria starts shaking, but when things get back to normal, they will still tell you they don’t depend on your oil.

What happens when oil becomes useless and your environment has been fully destroyed?

In other regions, they mine and keep their resources, but you are made to feed the whole Nigeria, even Niger with yours.

If you all were serious, you will go to Harvard university and pick someone.

Devoid of tribalism indeed.

I hate you Nigerians sometimes. You will cause all of us to suffer and still be happy.

This country is getting sooo hard, yet all you ediots can’t still think right.

kingsways:
In our presidential system, the V.P is not the one who runs the economy, he doesn't have the power to make appointments. In fact there's not much he can do to change things once the president is around

Then on what basis are you guys hyping him?

One one hand you claim he can’t do anything, so in essence, he HAS DONE NOTHING!

Yet on the other hand you scream “HE IS THE MOST COMPETENT VP”

Suffering and Smiling in Nigeria is just too much abeg.

Pearl1910:
Lolz...it's not your money. How will I explain this again o. If u care to know ur money, calculate the distance and time after every trip. U will see that what u collected is higher than what u r supposed to get. that extra is for Bolt. Remove your eyes from it.

Secondly, I did a very short trip today within chevyview and it was N700. So can u confirm that from Tuesday u have still been getting N600 trips?

If u don't want to stress yourself with calculations, just focus all ur attention on the NET Earnings on your App, so u don't have HBP.

The main issue is Driver Score and not commission cos afteral Uber has been 25%.

Yes, I got a 600 naira trip on Thursday and bolt still collected 26%.

Anyway, I guess they have the market now, so they are doing as they like.

Pearl1910:
Click on the Expenses arrow and u will see clearly how much Commission is.
Booking fee isn't part of d commission. Bolt adds extra money to d fare to cover the booking fee. It doesn't affect your earnings. Cos it's d Rider that's paying for it. U r simply remitting it to Bolt.

Really? So a N600 trip has bolt commission and booking fee inside?

The main thing is that there are taking 26% from out money.

How can a 600 naira trip still have booking fee and the rest. So driver will just make N300?

Vulcanizers are making more than that.

Na wa oh, so na so people dey look bolt drivers?

That we all uneducated and unfortunate

I’m so sad reading this.

to death ?

God of justice, please intervene.

Imagine the pain and horror the girl must have passed through.

God please let your righteous vengeance fall on her attackers

Why can’t bolt just take 80% commission, so we can know that we are driving for free

Imagine taking 26%, abeg that is just pure greed.

So if I make 20k, bolt will take N5,200

Then petrol will also be around N5k

God forbid your car has issue on that day.

So your dashboard will show you 20k, but really all you took home was like 9k.

I mean it would be different if they were buying fuel for their drivers, but how can I buy fuel and you still take 26% of my sweat?

kanuisagoat:
When a rider says, "stop at the junction, the road is bad" or "stop halfway, I'll take a bike to meet you there"

I will give the rider another 5-7 minutes without arriving. If they don't show up, then I'll arrive.

They have extended an olive branch by reducing the fuel I'll use to pick up or extending the service life of my suspension by not entering a bad road. The least I can do is to return the favour.

Oh I see and I agree with this to a large extent.
I also do this sometimes.

However, time is money, and I can’t be waiting so many kilometers away for a rider that may or may not show up.

If the rider wanted to be picked up at a different location, then enter that location. Don’t tell the driver to wait 2kms away that you are coming, and I would just park on the road without hitting arrive? God forbid!!

After she cancelled and my driver score dipped, the next request that came in was still her. I just said this time I am driving to the pickup, since I have already accepted, but I am going to cancel on her too. I mean what’s with all these riders playing with the app like it’s a video game.

I made sure to arrive at the exact point of pickup according to the bolt app, hit arrived and denied all her calls. After 4 minutes, she came and was trying to open my doors, I just drove off and quickly hit rider did not show, since she already cost me one driver score point.

I don’t know why all rides can’t just be straightforward; pick up at point A, dropoff at point B. Instead you accept a trip and rider calls and starts saying “yen yen yen, forget the app, I’m at so so so”, sigh, I just start shaking my head. Or, “please stop here and here and here...”

I try not to hit arrive until I’m at the riders door step or their estate gate(since I’m not gonna wait for you to call the gate), but if the road is bad and I can’t get there, and you decide to come out, it means I haven’t hit arrived yet anyway. Unless I’m canceling.

Also with this new driver score, aren’t you penalized when you drive to the wrong location? If they claim that you are not affected by rider cancellation when heading towards the rider, then what happens if a rider calls and tells you to head to a different pickup and then eventually cancels? It’s all so confusing abeg.

Has Bolt increased their commission to 26%?

I grossed 4,700 today out of which bolt took 1233.

1233/4700 * 100 = 26.2%

What is happening?

kanuisagoat:
When a rider offers me this kind of goodwill, I extend it by not arriving for 5-7 minutes.

I don’t understand

If you are the driver I just bashed, I am sorry once again.

My first mistake in months, chai!

All because I was trying to kill mosquitoe in my car

I’m sorry bro, and thanks for letting me go.

Another request and driver cancelled on my way and driver score reduced again

Hmmm

Mukah1234:
Okay bro. We need to be vigilant out there.

Definitely bro, and may Gods watch over us

Just got a ride request, passenger said she’ll meet me halfway, so I stopped and clicked arrived waiting for her.

She cancelled and my driver score reduced.

Na wa

Mukah1234:
Link please

https://mobile.twitter.com/Oksquid/status/1493845813121986561

There is another link, but can’t find it

A bolt driver just lost his life according to Twitter reports. May his soul Rest In Peace, amen!

Let’s all do our best to stay safe out there.

Bolt and other apps don’t care about anyone, left to them, you must do all trips, even if it is to kidnappers den, God forbid!

May God continue to guide and protect us in Jesus name, amen!

Pearl1910:
On d new system u will not be able to filter trips, so u r forced to accept and complete all trip requests u get. In d long run u will do many more trips than usual. Every single Rider will get a driver willing to go to all godforsaking destinations, so according to their plans, all things being equal, they will make more money.

Forced to complete all requests?

We are not robots na, lol.

So I will be in my city and someone will request me to Ibadan and I will just leave like that? Shooo

I was almost tempted today to request a driver to Katsina from lekki here, just to see what would happen, but I didn’t want to mess up some innocent drivers rating.

I was shocked that I could put Katsina on my rider app, like for real? and it showed me 5 mins. So all the preparation a driver needs to go to katsina from lekki is 5 minutes; Call your wife/gf and tell her you won’t be home for dinner, lol.

Anyways I still won’t go on trips that I can’t do, like mainland trips and so on... but the trips I can do, I do them to the best of my abilities with a clean car and a smile on my face.

I hope that would be enough to keep me from getting blocked, but only time will tell.

but I don’t understand sha

Is Bolt trying to make money or lose money?

So if I filter trips and say complete 10 trips, isn’t that a better commission than if I do only 2 trips for fear of getting blocked?

Anyways, I have no choice but to filter cause I can’t go to some places for the first time, with a rider and be missing my way or entering lasma traps.

Vision202:
Same thing in Ibadan too, I woke up with the picture I posted up there.

It was like magic to me too, I just ended a trip and by the time the home page came back, driver score was there, chai!!

I don’t know if I will last cause I filter trips, I don’t even go to mainland in Lagos.

YeyeGbami:
Bolt drivers after driver score

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I’m dying of laughter here, lol

So bolt now wants to force me to go to Ibadan, me that can’t even leave my city

Driver score don reach my side ooo

“Oga drive fast”

Drive fast for 600 naira fare?

Maybe they don’t understand basic energy principles

Shebi I am driving an airforce jet ba?

So I will rev my car high, dump so much petrol into the cylinders, just so I can stop again in 200 meters because of whatever road blockage, then I turn all that energy from dumping so much fuel to heat in my brakes. Energy lost, distance the same.

Then I end trip and see 400 naira, bolt will compensate you 100 naira

Some riders are entitled sha!

This one guy was telling me to run the traffic light, that shebi na Sunday!

I am so ashamed of myself I actually ran it, thinking this guy was in a hurry or something, but then I quickly came to my senses, may God forgive me.

On the next light on that ozumba, I stopped and was like guy, there is no way I’m not stopping.

If the guy had continued yanning I would have tossed him out of my car.

I had to go back that day and reflect on why I actually listened to a rider to run the lights. Was I scared of bad ratings? Maybe! But men, fvck that shhh, is it you that will bail me out if I get caught?

Men fvck that shhh

The same useless guy won’t even let the hotel security check his temperature, he was just shouting. The people are just trying to do their jobs for crying out loud.

Some people are just weird and they think they are all powerful maybe cause they have gotten a little change, mtcheew


Please don’t let any rider ever ever make you act out of character, even for a second.

But why do some riders bang someone’s door na?

E go be like say, they won throw shot put, with extra yam power!

I just hope one day my car window doesn’t shatter, cause it won’t be funny men!

Why can’t they close doors like normal humans?

kolnel:
this shows how very divided we are in this country.
I think its high time the different geographical zones parted ways.
at this era, we should be clamoring for the best candidate irrespective of the origin.
thats exactly how the mannequin in Aso rock was imposed on us.

It’s happening again.

See how all Nairalanders talk about the region the president will come from, from morning till night.

At the end we may be stuck with another dinosaur, because of tribe, and the masses continue to wail.

May God have mercy on us!

Left to me, Bolt should even get rid of activity score. It would be a much better experience for the riders.

If I decline a ride as a driver, the request should simply go to another driver.

Why make drivers play cancel games and waste everyone’s time?