₦airaland Forum

BuhariAdvocate:
This is very commendable. Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu I salute your courage we did to Buhari in 2015 and won with landslide we repeated it again in 2019 and he beat the opposition .We are going to do it for you you deserve to be Nigeria president you have fight and contribute to the nation building this is right time for Nigerian to pay you back.

Thank you for listen to the voice of Nigerians we call you and you answer us.

So you don’t even care about the consequences of your choices? The hardships Nigerians are facing?

All you care about is winning election, chai!

There are too many psychos in naija

Like so you will wake up early, get dressed, line up under the hot sun, all for what? So that you can install another disaster? A disaster that might even take dollar to 1000 naira.

Do you guys know what dollar at 1000 or above would even mean? Your 200 naira will almost become useless, in fact, it’s already getting there.

I truly am amazed at Nigerians seemingly unlimited capabilities to suffer and smile.

Someone will now ask me, who is my candidate? Well not the devil, that’s for sure!

Sigh, Naija, my people. The only country were their security forces engage each other. In other places, police fight criminals, but here you will see police in gun battle with soldiers, or police vs lasma, or frsc vs soldiers... no law, no order, no coordination, no consequences, no change to the status quo.

An outside panel needs to come study us, for real.

Ghost1994:
Best advice to car owners that’s doing ehailing as full time in this January is…….

1. Park your car at home Tuesday to Friday
2. Hustle only Monday and weekends
3. Go to Coursera/udemy etc find a good course you can do that’ll develop your skill.
4. For people below 40yrs you can still apply for ui/ux or graphics designer at least be doing 4hrs a day and use this moment to eat well and rest well.
5. Whatever you’ve made in December, buy 50k worth of foodstuffs at home pay half of school fees and replan yourself on how to embark on new journey
6. Keep this in mind, ehailing is just to keep body and soul together. look for better things to do
7. Buhari has advised every youth to go into farming… so get connected to your friends in the village and plant maize/okra/tomatoes etc on large scales
8. Start something new (open a viewing center with budget of 200k to 300k if you get better location you can open a viewing center)
9. Game stations shop (buy 2 ps2 and 2 ps3 consoles, find a shop in a secondary school environment, buy uk used 20inchs tv 4 pieces with 250k you set up this and small generator) whatever you generate from here, save it.
10. Start looking for job
11. With weekends hustle you can be saving 30k
12-1000. Ehailing is just to keep body and soul

Have a great day ahead

Just had to say that there are some very good pieces of advice in this piece, especially always learning, but sometimes ones self discipline fails along the way, sigh, but gotta keep pushing by Gods grace!!

Nice read!

YorubarLord:
Go and rule over yourself in your redmud godforsaken biafuro

Lol, one Nigeria people sha!

Why is it so hard for black man to sit down and solve his problems?

You are here implying that a different tribe should never be allowed to rule over another, yet you all claim you are one-Nigeria

Why do you lot deceive yourselves so much? You already acknowledge here that you are not one Nigeria, but your hypocrisy will never allow your type to solve the problem of unity and split the country apart.

You ridicule those that want their own country, but they can never be part of your own country, even if you both share the same country, wow, my brain hurts.

Next thing is, “Go back to your village”, lol, One-Nigeria.

Tomilola360:
I agree with you.

Hausa man should be made governor in Anambra
Igbo Man should be made governor in Lagos
Yoruba man should be made governor in Kano

One Nigeria

I don’t know if you are being sarcastic or not, but this is how it should be

tunlapapa:
I thought you have been here long enough to know winter.
This is the winter spoken about.

At all oo bro, I’m just like 5-6months deep in the game.

So there is a winter? Na wa! So this is the winter? Chai!!!!

If I had known I would have put off fixing my car till now. I had so many days during the holiday that my car was down for repairs.

Now my car is fixed, no more shaking, ac cooling , but now no rides, na wa for life sha.

chillex8:
You no dey read say winter don show
Park your car if you don't have extra balls to hustle for trips.

Wait... extra balls?

How many balls are we supposed to have

What is happening with bolt? Why are the rates so so low all of a sudden?

Trips that used to be like 1,500-2,000 are now like 800.

I can barely even buy petrol and eat with such fares.

Then it’s also like there are hardly any rides, unlike before when requests were coming in non stop.

Is this how it’s gonna be now?

Even indriver is boring, no requests. 6 drivers all setting offers for the only good trip I saw today, plus me that makes 7 drivers.

Is it time to go park my car?

specialmati:
lets wait for 2023 to see how many remain and the level at which they have suffered. a man wey gift una his friend wey keep una condition like this una they drum for, from change, to next level, and finally finish level

Someone said naira will crash more, then one false patriot came out saying the person shouldn’t be pessimistic.

How do you elect corrupt people and still remain optimistic? When this isn’t magic!

1 + 1 = 2, no optimism or pessimism in that fact.

You keep electing local corrupt champions and the country will keep sinking, don’t know why that’s so hard for some to grasp.

Oforleta:
You mean after Buhari's 8years of disaster, some people are plotting to replace him with no other person than Tinubu? Wawu!! Some Nigerians are just terrible.

They are demons bro! People like that seunmsg guy.

We are talking about a country were people can’t even get government water, yet, they still choose the most corrupt local champions to continue the disaster.

Nigerians men, with their thick and hard coconut heads!! It’s sad! Beyond sad!

dav1002:
Indriver na one kind app

As my rating don drop to 4.3 from 4.82 on bolt i say make i try my hands on Indriver dey prep my first blocking on bolt

First request on indriver rider was going to egneda from lekki phase 1 for 7500

As i pick got to pu rider tell me say she no go again say there's traffic

Indriver don debit their commission sharp sharp

I come load my Indriver wallet with 1k

D second day i see ijegun from surulere the guy put 2560 i put 3500 cos i dey find trip wey go carry me go my house side for igando axis and bolt no gree give me destination trip guy man accept fast fast

Got to pu guy man put some loads for my boot come out with two other people still waste my time for like 25 to 20mins join. I just say make i chill hoping bolt destination trip will come in. Finally he came out

As we enroute destination he started saying bro pls stop here pls let me pick this let me buy this let me do this i still chill

As we reach ijegun bstop him say na ijagemo side

I said hell no

The road no good no be my car u go spoil i no dey go

Him start say he wont pay me full money or i take him and he will add something i told him straight Bleep ur extra fare pay me what u want he said he will pay me 2k

Immediately i remember my wheel spanner commot am sharp bro paid 3k and dropped asap!

Meanwhile why bolt never block me yet?

As in, indriver can be soooo annoying.

Why will they charge the driver when the passenger doesn’t show?

So let’s say a driver drives 5km to pick up a rider, spent 10mins in traffic, now gets there and the passenger doesn’t show, why should the driver now get charged?

Granted they will tell you that it would be refunded in 10 days, but why will they even charge you at all? Bolt and Uber don’t do that.

So I burn my petrol and my time and I still get charged when a passenger doesn’t show, it’s insane.

Then the indriver riders will just be wasting your time. At least on bolt, after 5 mins you enter paid waiting, but since there is no paid waiting on indriver, the riders will be taking forever. Some riders sha, so I should wait 20 minutes for you for free? Because of what na?

When I use indriver, I tell the riders that I will only wait 5 minutes, then I set my timer on my phone as soon as I arrive. Even today I was telling this girl on the phone on my way to her pickup to please, please, be ready that I am so and so minutes away and I will only wait 5 minutes once I arrive.

I arrived and at 5 minutes and some seconds I cancelled as I hadn’t seen her, then as I was about to leave, she came out, but I had already cancelled.

Why can’t people order rides when they are ready to leave? Some don’t value your time at all. It’s like since “the cab is here”, the cab will be there forever... makes no sense.

komodapson:
This will be difficult, if not impossible to achieve. Why? Some of the parts are substandard&costly. Good expertise in car fix are rare to come by, and if you came across you'll be paying through your noses.
Rideshare is a side hustle, look for another thing tey join body...
Gracias!!!

What about all these one million drivers?

Aren’t they able to save and repair their car?

helinues:


A friend arrived at Heathrow airport before I could got home after dropping him off at MMA..

All thanks to Lagos traffic

That’s why you are the suffering and smiling CHAMPION!

So you suffered this much to the point that your friend arrived far away London before you were able to drive a few kilometers.

Yet you will keep singing praises to your oppressors who have never once thought about enforcing traffic rules and allow for total chaos and madness on Lagos roads.

In the country your friend is going to, don’t police patrol and pull erring drivers over?

But here in your zoo/jungle, would your children even know what it means to get pulled over? The proper pull over with a chase and sirens and not checkpoints.

You Nigerians see the problems but for whatever reason, you will fight to keep the problems and make them worse, instead of making moves to eliminate the issues.

Maybe next time, your friend would have gotten to Australia before you drive 10km in Lagos traffic with the complete and utter lawlessness.

Dsalvo:
That is lawlessness not illiteracy. Brits and Americans would be lawless too if the law is not efficient and punitive against misconduct in the UK and USA.

When a judge sells judgment in Nigeria, to set a rich murderer free, is that illiteracy too?

Let us learn to put things in perspective. Nigerians. As Africans, are exemplarily accomplished when it comes to educational prowess.

We should not confuse lawlessness, aided mainly by bad and very corrupt governance, to mean illiteracy or lack of intelligence.

Getting governance right is the prerogative of all of us and not leaders alone.

Yes you are right that it is lawlessness, but I believe it’s born majorly out of illiteracy.

If we were an intelligent race, we would have made moves by now to enforce laws like how the white man enforces laws.

Do you know what I faced yesterday? A two lane road was completely blocked by one way drivers, such that we were all at a standstill, I mean who does that? Only monkeys?

Only subhumans would completely block oncoming traffic for miles, by forming a one way lane on the lane of incoming traffic. Only animals would do that bro!

Because common sense in the absence of law enforcement would at least tell people that if you drive on the lane for incoming traffic, such that you now have a queue of cars, there would be no way for traffic to move and instead of a journey that would have taken 15 minutes with an orderly queue, everyone is now stuck there “indefinitely” or for hours until the senior monkeys arrive to try to ease traffic.

Bro you don’t even understand how far behind we are

TimmyTen:
Our campaign should be to defeat APC & PDP in 2023 and then we can take up on the next mission of fizzling out the old recycled politicians. Nigerian youths should wake up.

People that are so in love with their chains

Well I hope that it could be possible.

Left to be, we need MIT and Harvard graduates at all levels of government for Nigeria to have a chance.

You elect one Agbero as governor or president, then you expect him to care about your well-being? Or you expect him to bring 21st century development to you?

This is what happens when you have ABSOLUTELY ZERO LAW ENFORCEMENT.

When are we going to get it right in Naija for crying out loud?

Can you go to Dubai and start driving against traffic, to the point that you end up blocking all the lanes of upcoming traffic?

It’s like we Nigerians just adapt to any kind of suffering we see.

Things are not normal in this country, I don’t know why the masses can’t see that.

I was even telling someone about how there are open gutters everywhere even in Victoria island and lekki, the supposed richest parts of Lagos, and the person responded with “na open gutter be your problem?” Imagine.

You are so used to suffering that you can’t even see that having big open gutters everywhere is not normal. No sir, it is not normal at all. Gutter bubbling with poo, piss, algae and all sorts open right in front of a “million dollar” property, chai!

God help us.

We don’t even have leaders that mention these problems, or citizens that vote based on these issues. No agenda nothing, it’s always just “let’s show this other tribe pepper, even if I have no water infrastructure from government that serves my house, I’m not concerned “

Come on Nigeria, we deserve better. God please!

Omo I suffered small yesterday on a street around lekki phase 2.

The street that is normally a two lane street had been blocked totally by one way drivers creating 2 lanes going in the same direction instead of the usual two lanes going in opposite directions.

Chai, black man!

Imagine it wasn’t just one or two cars, but the whole road was filled with emboldened one way drivers, such that they had blocked the movement of people that are supposed to use that lane.

That’s how everywhere was just at a standstill.

Why are we so animalistic in this country?

So you can’t queue up, instead you decide that you will use the lane for oncoming traffic to bypass the queue. Then other animalistic drivers follow your move until the whole street becomes a nightmare because there is now nowhere for cars to go.

Why can’t they understand that it is better to be in a queue that will eventually move faster than blocking oncoming traffic leading to a COMPLETE AND UTTER STANDSTILL.

The things that you citizens do in this country ehn, God forbid!

If anybody doubts what the op is saying, just come take a drive in Lagos and you will see illiteracy at its very PEAK!!

Crazy drivers taking one way, running traffic lights with reckless abandon. Any small holdup, danfo has entered bush to bypass the holdup. Okada has climbed the curb we’re pedestrians are supposed to be walking and now riding there...

Omo it is real and we need a solution.

May God help us to get it right one day, amen!

Meeeen!!!

It just seems all the small money I make driving bolt goes into repairing my car. Though I must admit that my car wasn’t in the best shape to begin with sha.

After changing my compressor and condenser recently, I have now changed my engine mounts that were making the car vibrate so so bad. The vibrations were bad men, almost like the engine was gonna fall apart, lol.

Out of the four, one was so bad, all the rubber had gone off. The other three are pictured below.

You can see how they have tears in them and the one with hydraulic fluid inside was busted from below. So you can imagine how the mounts with the tears were when the weight of the engine was on them. They probably were just giving way allowing for almost metal to metal contact.

Honestly I can’t believe this is my same car. So smooth in reverse and drive now, you hardly know the engine is on.

Now we move on to the suspension and transmission fluid, chai!

I just want to be able to save without dropping so much on my car.

This seunmsg guy is such a disgusting unity beggar sha.

White man created your country through injustice, but a dense black man like you will not rectify the situation.

Pearl1910:
I am referring to d oil specification (weight, thickness, viscousity, temp, pressure tolerance and other properties)...the oil specification is on the oil cap of your vehicle or better still in d car manual, Incase the oil cap has been changed.
I am not sure any car from 1998 advises to use 20w50 so I am surprised u say ur user manual suggests u can use 20w50. Really surpurised and I am forced to ask which car u drive.

Although 20w50 can be used to see out the remaining life of an old engine, what really pains me is when I see people buy a tokunbo car and when they do engine oil change, they are replacing it with a 20w50 oil without recourse or obedience to d specified oil for the vehicle.

Do u really think opening sump to wash out sludge is a normal car maintenance procedure...no, it's not sir and it's because of the use of poor qaulity oils without treatment, that breaks down easily and leaves substances in ur engine when subjected to high temperatures and pressure for a long period of time.

And when u do transmission service, all d old oil has to be drained and disposed and have fresh specified oil poured in to guage.

There is an oil spec on the cap, but according to my manual (attached), 20w 50 is acceptable in this climate.

Yeah dropping the pan is definitely not typical maintenance, but it was my fault mostly for not changing the oil on time. Even now my oil is very dirty, meaning I have been procrastinating the oil change and dropping the pan is for my peace of mind, so the engine doesn’t knock. After that, if I keep up with regular oil changes, which I always say I’ll do but never quite do, the engine should be relatively clean.

I’m sure there are better oils out there, that may allow for longer oil change intervals, but the total oil doesn’t fall under this category, so though it is acceptable, I reckon it just has to be changed very often, like maybe every 2000-3000km, just a guess.

As per the transmission, I thought some fluid will still be left over after draining? Anyways as you said, there is a dipstick. I’m so thankful mine has a dipstick and is not one of those new ones that are “sealed”, so if anything I can always gauge it.

The plan though was to do a cold fluid drain since the fluid volume varies with temperature. Catch all the fluid, measure what came out and put back precisely that amount of new cold fluid.

checkolatunji:
2023 is already in the bag immediately he won in 2019, stop this your foolishness.

Isn’t it rather foolishness to already guarantee him a second term immediately he won the first, without even looking at the upcoming track record?

That’s how you guys always let sentiments becloud your better judgment. Somebody hasn’t even done any work yet, on first day of first tenure you are already saying grant him another, chai!

Great gesture by the governor! It’s always good to bring smiles to people’s faces, but he can and should do more.

Find a way to instill law and order in Lagos. The rate at which danfo just disregard red traffic light is alarming. It’s as if they are daring you law enforcers mr governor, like you guys won’t even stop them to give them even if it’s to warn them talk less of giving them a traffic fine to pay.

Pearl1910:
This "it has served me well" u guys always say for palm oil. How many years have u used that oil without having any engine issues?
Most of the damage those bad oils cause begin to surface after like 2yrs of ehailing use. So the testimonies should wait till like 3yrs then u can confirm if it has served u well or not.

No be by prayer and no be curse, if u use wrong fluids u are bound to change engine or transmission sooner or later.

U guys don't fathom d level of stress on d engine driving from morning till night everyday, then u now come and add to it with wrong oil. It's just a matter if time...

Is it the brand of oil or the weight?

My car supports 20w 50 according to my user manual, but if it’s the brand, I’m not sure if you mean Total isn’t reputable.

I’ve been using it for years (Total quart 20w50) and the issues I’ve had were my own doing by not changing the oil on time. I had to drop the oil pan and spray brake clean on the oil pickup screen to free it up.

I have no issues when I keep up with the oil changes.


The one that scares me is doing a transmission fluid change soon on my car. Toyota ATF cost a lot and my car uses more than 7 liters or so, can’t remember, although just a change shouldn’t drain all the fluid, still!

I totally agree that ehailing puts a toll on our cars and we need to change oil often. As a matter of fact I’m going for an oil change tomorrow and dropping the sump again just for good measure cause it’s been a while I changed my oil.

OmodavidoX:
Same here. I paid 8k since afternoon. E never drop. And after that I did 12,500 card trips. If I no make I no transfer that 8k

Lol, at least all is still your money and you’re not owing.

I found card trips today and my balance is back to a reasonable amount.

komodapson:
But na the monograde na him I pour SAE 40, the smoke no be here ó...my sleeky car don turn DAF truck....I drove past conoil , but I had already poured the total monograde and i haven't tried the Conoil 20w-50... But it seems Oando seems good also....

Omo ...e be like say na name all those company dey sell jare...
I'd it being I had more time to think, I wouldn't have taken such irrational decision.... But I was running out of time, N1M before 31st

But I go await oga Felicity make him tell me the implication of the use of monograde Oil as against SW 20 - 50....seems I won't have to wait till 2000miles before I change the oil then...
But I go await my boss Felicity make him school me...

Which one is monograde oil again?

Bros abeg remove that oil as soon as possible ooo, just bite the bullet and buy the correct 20w 50 or whatever weight your car uses.

Isn’t that generator oil? Lol

ReadaDream:
Things they happen o

So what later happened na?

Hello? Are you still there?

komodapson:
Yeah ..bro...concerning oil check, very vital...woke up early today, checked my oil ...I c say e gauge...naso I got my first trip on uber from ojodu to festac, 1.5x...then return trip immediately from festac to magodo, magodo again to obawole, obawole back to olowora....Olowora offline to phase II...

Then...i noticed the sound of my engine don dey crow ...very hot....on 3MB....on my way I couldn't see any oil from reputable gas station either Oando or Total...... I knew the oil go don fall short...as I reach phase II... Naso a juicy offer N9860 to Ekoro abule egba....
Mehn... I don't like waiting, I no dey pursue bonus...

I no one miss the offer. I'm always wary of lekki epe exp and 3MB, because once road free....craze go plenty......I started noticing the craze from Gerrard road, ogudu and alapere...minor minor accidents...

As I reach one total gas station... I happy say I go pick up my desired oil....because the engine don change from crowing to quack quack quack like duck... but I was let down... I'd to improvise

Mehn I gat no choice than to go with this monograde oil ...so drivers make una check oil well o....
But the smoke ehn....no be for here ó...e be like DAF truck...I pray make my engine no hear pansa pansa before I dispose off....

BAZOO...hops I no go clock N1M go later buy engine N400k ....lmao

May God not let us need to buy new engine or transmission, amen!!!

Omo that is my oil ooo, that Total 5000 20w 50. It has served me well.

Merry Christmas to all the pilots today

Remember to check your oil ooo, mine has been short and I didn’t even know.

Meanwhile I see now why people pay bolt ahead of time, I sent them money today but they haven’t processed it, hmmm, I hope I don’t get blocked ooo

Gentlelife50:
Yes, you're just like me.
I detest traffic, that's why I fight any rider that will tell me it's paying me.
Me I like plenty surge with free roads

Just like today brah! Men!!!!

“To fully kit one policeman with uniform, taser, tactical gear (light, knife, jacket, belt, gloves, shoulder, ankle, and boots), bulletproof vest, ballistic helmet, tear gas, push-to-talk on cellular communication equipment, rain gear, etc, will cost at least N3 million. Hence to kit 33,000 police officers in Lagos will cost about N99 billion. This is our reality if we truly want a highly motivated and fully equipped police force in the state."

Okay so let’s break it down:-
Light - 5,000
Knife - 5,000
Belt, gloves and padding - N15,000
Bulletproof vest (not necessary for every officer) - 100,000
Helmet - 20,000
Push to talk walkie - 10,000
Uniform - 15,000
Boots - 10,000

Total so far is 180,000 and you have a well kitted officer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGCvXTISNns


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0o-mjvxIbs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc13vctCcUo

Rubbish!

Trump still remains one of the best American presidents ever, that led a booming economy until the COVID collapse.

So is it Biden that is better? Someone that worsened the border crisis? Did you see how children were dropped over the border fence?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWC3LdS5Qto



Nigerians would be lucky to have a Trump as president, a “Talk and Do President”!

Meanwhile, how far with the lie about “Russian interference”, that you guys used almost throughout his administration? Now that the lie has been debunked, how silly does it make you guys feel?

I remember back then, everyday it was Russia, Russia, Russia...