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Hey guys, hope y’all are having a great Friday morning.

I have a few questions for the house please.

I have a Toyota I want to drive in Uber, but the car has some issues.

The main issue I think might affect inspection is the torn seats in the car. All the seats are torn and I’m looking at the cost of repair and wondering if it’s worth it for now.

-Please guys, if I were to go for an inspection now, will the car pass with the torn seats?

-can I have multiple inspections done? Like if you fail the first one, can you make repairs and come back for another inspection?

-finally guys, there is a “Situation Survey” that must be taken, any tips on that?

Thank you guys

Nigeria is funny

You will hear people happy that white countries are returning stolen artifacts from Benin, and the black people here will be shouting "Chai, white man don do us strong tin ooo"

Yet, when you mention to these same people that Nigeria, a vestige of white supremacy, slavery and the likes, should be disbanded, they will all shout "One Nigeria", lol

Confusion everywhere

KazikageSama:
Naira will actually suffer for this move Sir.
1. Our banks are not capable of handling the volumes of daily FX exchanges over the counter yet. From experience, I can assure you that banks are still struggling with handling, reporting and managing Form As, Form Ms, BTA and PTA requests.
2. All countries have BDC (ALL), what most of them have just done is put the strategic managements under financial institutions. If would have been better if there is a roadmap to allow banks take over these BDCs first before this outright ban.
3. With the CBN's $100 FX limit on cards, expect people to hoard their dollars more which will put more strain on naira.
4. BDCs today are the number 1 agents of controlling (mobbing up and selling dollar into the economy), with most items off out Form M list, these guys are provide the dollars that most businesses use to import their foreign materials.

Emefiele for me has been the most questionable CBN Gov., his policies are questionable and his way of reasoning quite archaic. I'm certain he has some funny reasons behind this but I'm not sure it was well thought through.

I won't be surprised if we have to devaluate further to meet impending FX needs within the next couple of months.

I may be wrong and I pray I am

All countries have BDC, but is it Aboki that they have? The ones that will say any price they like at anytime based on who the customer is?

I have been to western countries where their BDC are operated in a disciplined manner, with firm prices displayed on boards, so every customer pay the same price. No selling at 500 to person A and then selling at 480 to person B and then at 510 to person C...

Why can't that be a possibility in Nigeria? Why must we be searching for Aboki in market, hotels and so on to buy and change dollar?

If you know how these guys cheat eh, and then who would you report the incident to?

jneutron4000:
They are not doing any damage. With the unitary system of government in Nigeria this act is needed to save your ethnicity politically or else you will just wake up one day and find out that those ruling you in your LG are not even from your land. We all know that in every states and regions in Nigeria, after the population of the owners of that land, the highest number of non indigenous people in that land will be igbos because they love to mass migrate into others people space and love to impose their political interests on you. Yorubas do not determine who should be their governors in the east, so why should we allow them to be determining ours for us?. When we have Yoruba Nation, I will kick against it but as far as we are still in this contraption omo be wise in o.

See the way this dude is supporting election rigging and malpractice

and he got 5 likes?

Such a scary country this Nigeria, filled with stupidity.

Such stupidity men, it’s too much abeg, chai!

Black man sha, where is that rossikk guy sef? Come and see something ooo

INCREDIBLE007:
do you know the population of easterners in Yoruba land ?

do you know the population of other tribes in Yoruba land ?

as a Nigerian youth we all have that JAPA preparedness within us to move to usa, UK, Canada and anywhere abroad
so far we can be sure of getting qualitative live there.

do you know an Arab man is the foreign secretary of UK, is he white ?
do you know how many black people are ministers in canada ? are they white ?
do you know how many blacks are political office holders in USA? most of them immigrants

and if where the youths of this country are desirous of moving to by crook or by hook
are led by outsiders, do you Think if same applies here,
our country will not be better 4 it.



ASK YOURSELF
Elon musk, is very influential and enjoys maximum support in the US , is he not from south Africa?

this amazon man BEZOS, richest man in the world, is a jew

have you heard of Chris Air ? omo 9ja he's doing exploit in USA.

and many others like that

see the support they enjoy from AMERICANS of all races and the American government
and see how many people they've taken out of the unemployment market.

the earlier we do away with tribal mindset and sentiments the better.

Don’t mind all these evil people

To go so low to support rigging in broad daylight with his chest out, so proud!

Such stupidity men

So police can’t shoot all these guys down?

Not even Taser?

No arrests?

Crvrider:
Some where around ikola road to egbeda. The guys where going clubbing and seriously needed to be there, I guess.

As for check points, a whole lot depends on the police and their mood. When the curfew first started, I was caught by aswani police, na 10k I use bail my car.

This Buhari self, the man doings dey surprise me. Are you guys sure he hasn't forgotten he announced a curfew?

Is there still curfew in Nigeria?

I thought it was canceled months ago?

uchdollar111:
You will use an escrow system to transfer the USD to someone that will give you Naira in your bank account at the market exchange rate. How often do you do this kind of transactions?

Not that often, but I am not sure if an escrow service would work, cause I’m using a dorm account which is cash in and out I think.

So do I have to start calling people to buy my physical dollar?

sholatech:
U were scammed. He rode on your ignorance. Most likely due to weekend. Enter any gtb or access bank or fidelity Bank or fcmb branch around that Eko hotel vi axis and ask the security guys or customer care to help you with an aboki that deals with their customers. It's same rate for 100 and 50 dollars bills. Only bills lower than 50 usd such as 5/10 etc that are priced lower.

I truly believe so. I heard it’s because I didn’t carry a 100 dollar bill, but when they sold me last week, even a dollar note was sold at 505.

Thanks bro, I truly believe I was scammed, and the guy was so arrogant.

Next time I will shop around as you said.

Even the 400 is lower than bank rate.

Commentor:
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Let's be honest, Nigerians don't want a better society.

When government says register for National Identity, Nigerians would find politics, and something sinister to pin on why they won't register.

Abeg, anything we see, we take am like that.

It really does seem that is the case sometimes, as is evident in our election choices.

Commentor:


See the kind of people that live amongst us.

The perpetrator go still go home, chop like say nothing happen today.

As in...

May God help us!

What kind of country is this becoming though?

How long before we have a real police force, that is well paid, highly skilled and full of technology to stop all these kinds of things?

Our police now that can’t even verify a drivers license remotely, using computers in a patrol vehicle, instead they just stand at junctions, form road blocks...

To be a Nigerian is just something else right now, to say “I’m a Nigerian”.

uchdollar111:
Can you tell the person sending you the dollar to send it online?

If it’s online, what difference would that make?

Would I them transfer to someone?

If I have it on hand, can’t I still get AbokiFX rates at mallam?

He was even saying I’m lucky he’s not selling to me at 350, chai!

nairavsdollars:
I disagree

Even in highbrow areas, you still have open gutters filled with shiiit and pees, so what are we talking about.

You know how when you play Monopoly, the game, you move around properties, from low value to highest value. Now imagine you move on to the highest value property are in Lagos and guess what? You still have OPEN GUTTERS.

Take a seconds to look inside any open gutter near you. Just examine it for 5 minutes straight, what is the color? Green? Black? Purple? If it’s purple sha, that one is what they call Extra-Contaminated.

The devil really is in the details sha, I too must remember that. They will patch road, and call it a day, yet the little but important things like lane markings and covered sidewalk are almost never done.

I don’t know what kind of civil engineering standard that Open Gutters fall inside sha, maybe the Emgineers in the house can help.

Then the irony of life, is having open gutter right next to multi million dollar properties, like... I’m not gonna be like some others who say that Home owners should repair the roads in front of their houses, cause that don’t make much sense. The responsibility still falls on the government to fix the roads in front of these rich homes, and every other home, even if it’s inside an estate.

Anyways, I guess there is nothing like open gutter sha to get you going in the morning. Just don’t fall inside, cause that’s day over, right as it begins.

Smell an open gutter today!

I feel like I just got scammed at eko hotel cause they changed my small 50 dollars at a rate of 400 naira to a dollar, but when you want to buy, no matter how small, even one dollar bill, they will tell you it’s 505.

How do I avoid this in the future?

Cc Seun, Lalasticlala

tunlapapa:
I will advise you to shed off that idea if you want to drive. Cancellations leads to driver's deactivation.

Okay, I guess I will have to prepare my mind then.

Pearl1910:
If this is ur plan, then Indriver is best suited for you.

Bolt and Uber have limited use of destination trips. Meaning u can't set your desired destination more than twice in a day.
However, it's not compulsory u go everywhere and anywhere Riders are going, u have an option of rejecting or cancelling when u discover it's not ur preferred destination.

Thanks for sharing, it’s much appreciated.

You say you can cancel, but I read you can’t cancel that many times.

So as it is now, if I start driving and want to remain in Surulere for instance, then I have just 2 guaranteed trips and the rest I have to start cancelling if they take me out of that zone.

Please guys, take a quick timeout from arguing and help answer some questions, thanks!

I already got the information from this thread last night, that on Uber, you can’t see the riders destination before hand, and may have to drive to a location you don’t wanna go or cancel.

However, I read an article online that says Uber has things like trip filters and a “go home” feature that allows you to pretty much select an area you’d like to drive in.

My question thus is, are these features available in Nigeria? I know some drivers here might not mind the long trips due to the ability to earn more as seen by dashboard screenshots here, but for those wanting to stay in an area, will these features be available to them, or has anyone ever tried to use them?

Any information on this will be greatly appreciated, thank you.

tunlapapa:
Going the analog way solves all these problems.

May I know what area you are going?
Rider responds if they are not heading to dead zone, but the moment you hesitate, I cancel right in your presence.

Good to know that you can just cancel those instead of waving the white flag when the rider finally tells you.

Uber can never try this in developed countries.

Anyways, thanks for the info, I’m gathering as much info as I can to know of this is worth it.

IFEBARBIE:
only on bolt

Wow! Thanks for the information.

I wonder how Uber drivers drive blindly to any destination, what if I put Ibadan from Lagos?

So if I start driving Uber, someone will want to carry me to Ibadan from Lagos God forbid!

IFEBARBIE:
Uber has invited me for a physical roundtable discussion on how to improve their app and driving experience on their platform. I already have my list of prayers for them which include

1. Display of rider's destination (riders believe we see it, but I tell them it's only on bolt)

2. Recruitment of more partners to reduce incidences of long pickups ( today I was around adekunle and got a trip from uba building)

3. Penalizing riders who request and fail to answer their calls. You can't slide arrived on Uber you need drive down to PU

4. Rider verification

5. Reduction of commission to 15 or 20% and regular promo for riders.

Pls, feel free to add yours so as to present it tommorow. Thanks

Wait, are you saying Uber drivers can’t see the destination for potential riders?

That makes no sense though, what if the rider is going to a place you don’t wanna go to?

CheerfulGiver:
Like I said, I'm busy. I Don chop the bonus, now 7,200 to go.

Is this driving money? Shooo

I have question guys please...

Can you pick the area you want to drive in?

Say you are on the mainland, can you filter for only requests on the mainland? So that for example, you don’t have to go to the island.

Can you see where the driver wants to go to before hand? If you can’t, how do you deal with that? What if someone requests a ride and you can’t see the destination, then when you get there, they say “Take me to Abuja” from Lagos

Please experienced drivers, help me with answers

BKayy:
Hope you know that those that are being killed are actually Northern Minorities not Hausa and Fulani

I have never delved into the demographics of the victims as the whole thing seems so chaotic. All the headlines I see are just multiple people killed and so on.

BKayy:
You don't know the idiots you are sharing country with.
They have even moved on from the herdsmen news. They don't care that people are slaughtered daily in tens and hundreds at Southern Kaduna, Taraba and Benue. Some are even being slaughtered now as we speak.
Minus the Kajuru Emir kidnap saga, many did not know that Adara people were conquered in 2018.
Some still doubt that there is war ongoing

It seems we are now numb to news of mass killings daily or weekly. I think it has gotten to that stage unfortunately, were we just read the news and keep on moving, without for a second imagining ourselves in their shoes.

May God grant a peaceful rest to all the innocent that have lost their lives due to terrorism in Nigeria, Amen!

I wonder sometimes why Kanu and Sunday could be bigger news stories than the thousands of Nigerian lives lost.

I do not doubt that we are at war, because the casualty numbers from terrorism in Nigeria are almost like war casualty numbers.

BKayy:
Nigerians have moved on.
You better do same as well

how many irregularities will we just “move on” from?

One day they will ban internet and we’ll just move on... back to the stone age

I thought nairaland said no to secession? A thread that they have pinned forever at the top of the politics section.

But since it’s profitable for them, they will move so much news about secessionist to the front page.

I guess profits over what you believe ba?

Agbegbaorogboye:
I thought the government had set up a negotiation team and were ready to meet with Twitter who according to Lai Mohamed were ready to negotiate.
What happened? If care is not taken, the biggest losers will be Nigerian youths especially those from the South as it has been proven Twitter have nothing to lose really from the matter.

Why is a negotiation even necessary?

What other app or website are they negotiating with?

Candy crush?
Call of duty?
New York Times?
Instagram?

Why only Twitter?

and why is it still banned especially now that their excuse “Nnamdi Kanu”, has been arrested?

I thought they said it was cause of one man, Nnamdi Kanu, that they shut out 200 million people from access to Twitter?

Now that they’ve arrested him, why haven’t they lifted the ban?

Or are they now giving another reason for keeping the ban ongoing?

A president that you have to drag and drag and drag like faulty generator before he starts an address to the public?

You’re joking right?

A leader who remains utterly silent when school kids are kidnapped? The same one that won’t hold press conference to assuage Nigerians?

Is that the same president?

If I sleep with my lover in my heart, won’t I wake up first think you talk to her? Or will I wait 4 months?

Beancounter93:
No the problem started before independence

Nigeria's revenue is dependent on raw materials , and resources not on industrial products

And we don't set the prices of these materials

So our dollar revenue is never enough due to fluctuating prices of what we sell

Throw in the fact that we also are very import dependent too.

This impacts our forex and by extension the value of the naira

And also causes inflation hence the higher denomination notes .

As well as governemt efforts to control forex and control rates of exchange which led to the whole official and parallel rates things

Countries with strong currencies are industrial countries that export industrial goods. Not oil dependent jokes like Nigeria

How can you say that a natural resource is the cause of the problem?

Of course in the sense of rivalry and human greed and wickedness, then yeah, a gift could become a curse I guess.

However, we should see natural resources mainly as gifts from God to be managed by those with the fear of God or great managers.

There are templates already out there showing how natural resources can be properly utilized, like was done in Dubai for instance.

Do you remember a time when Nigerias government claimed we had too much money and didn’t know what to do with it?

Now imagine we had leaders with the foresight to build, build build, turning Nigeria into a Waknda of sorts, with railways, international airlines and turning the country into the biggest black tourist nation EVER. However, we know how greed caused us to go from coup to coup to corrupt democrats.


Africa is truly blessed with a bounty of resources, but it seems our minds are shackled. May God free us and break the chains in our lives, which hold us back!

Yeah, like if you gather 10 five naira notes, all you’d have is 50 naira, still not enough for a bottle of coca cola

We need to change this, but I know for a fact that these leaders we keep electing in Nigeria can’t inspire such change.

I think we should make all presidential candidates write exams for elections, instead of being voted in, yeah it’s that bad. They could write exams on economics, leadership... then we screen for the best candidates. You might be shocked to find out those that get 10% or lower are the ones that win elections typically.

They come out frying a Akara and corn during elections, like that would have any bearing on our currency and the well-being of the country.

OP this is sad indeed. I’m just thinking like if I had 5 dollars, I could get a meal both in America and in Nigeria, but with 5 naira here, it feels like you don’t have any money.

May the almighty God help us and strengthen our wills to make good choices, Amen!

vickydankal:
How can I white man be in a political position when he is not a citizen. Yes there are few white that are Nigerians, but if you check this country is not working for the Blacks not to talk Whiteman.

I believe if a Whiteman citizen decides to run for the office of the president community of nations will support him for their selfish interests especially America.

Check South Africa and you will notice that the white make up to the 22% of the population no wonder the country is where it is in the world map.

For a white to lead this country, e go tey my brother. Hausa/Fulani no go support a white man even if he is Muslim and from the north they will be suspecting him.

To me it’s not even about the country working, but to highlight how tribal we are.

As someone mentioned, we don’t even have them as ministers sef, they are no where to be found and I’m sure we have white Nigerians.

We are so tribal that we don’t even let other tribes within the same country lead our states. Like say a Yoruba guy can become governor of Anambra tomorrow? Haha! Naija...


Yet we can go out as black people and lead in other countries. The situation really is telling!
Check nairaland front page periodically for how we celebrate Nigerians going abroad and holding government positions.