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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.

I’m always seeing news of Nigerians going abroad and getting some political position, and in the United States, a black man even became the President.

How many white officials do we in turn have in government positions all across Nigeria

Does this now point to blacks being in fact more racist/tribalist than whites?

Makes you think!

Draslo:
Do you really want to begin the conversation on why things are the way they are in this contraption called Nigeria? The topic go reach page 2000 and we no go finish the story.

Obviously a lot is wrong, but the so called leaders don’t even acknowledge these common-sense faults and it’s irritating.

Even simple things like traffic rules that if enforced will cut down traffic times significantly; simplest of things like enforcing lane discipline.

Back to the issue of cctv at Nigerian stations though, I find it very annoying that they keep claiming how their stations are being waylaid by unknown people, yet no one in the whole police hierarchy could stand up and point out “Hey guys, maybe it would be a good idea to have cameras all around our facility, you know!”

Don’t tell me he doesn’t have to say anything, that it’s not his style and bla bla bla

What other democratic setting will a leader not come out to address things as bad as school kids being kidnapped?

I thought a leader was supposed to lead?

We only see and hear from the president every couple of months regardless of whatever catastrophe envelopes the nation.

It seems funny now that people used to mock GEJ for addressing the public and looking “clueless” when visiting disaster zones, really funny I tell you! What then can be said of the current president who barely even tries?

I know last time I visited a police station in Nigeria, I didn’t see one single computer, but I hope at least they have cameras.

It would be a monumental shame is a WHOLE POLICE STATION doesn’t have cctv, like...

They keep saying unknown hun men, but if you were a real police station for crying out loud, you should be able to release some videos of the siege on your stations, no so?

What am I missing?

uuzba:
Because PHCN is sleeping? They should not increase their tariff again?
This car is £13,000 (N7,377,080) Add import duty etc.... N9,000,000
I should use my N9 million to by this bicycle?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIECtqau78g

lol, that's why I said when they become prevalent.

also, no matter what, charging an electric vehicle will always be cheaper than fueling a petrol car

plus, you could always charge with solar power, even if it's at a slow rate over a weekend with solar power.

Do you guys think he will be arrested as soon as his immunity expires?


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

Once Electric Vehicles become more prevalant, reliance on petrol should drastically reduce.

Seniorwriter:
Though the amount that man spent is ridiculously outrageous however I don't think the said amount is for just procurement of the Governorship Aspiration form...must have been the total amount the Aspirant spent on all intricates towards his ambition.
Let's be guided with the right information.

We need young visionary leaders come 2023.

@Seniorwriter

It is just for the form, you can hear him in the video say that.

Also remember when Buhari said he had to borrow money to buy his own form? Which was then in the 10s of millions.

The corruption in apc and pdp starts at the very beginning.

I remember when oshiomole said the price is high to weed out the weak men, so only strong men apply. Of course that makes no sense whatsoever, as the parties want the money and candidates that have money period.

I was even shocked to learn independent candidates for USA presidency have to pay a ballot fee of $500. Imagine!!

This country is just too corrupt, and it is clear for all to see, but we just always brush it off.

How can it take 26 million just go get on a ballot? What is the official annual salary of the position minus bonuses that warrants a 26 million naira upfront payment?

Things are just too weird in this nation

Imaging PDP charging 26 million naira to get on a ballot.

Something that won’t cost above $2,000 in America.

Yet we expect people to pay that money and not be corrupt.

We need to look else as voters, forget all this apc, pdp, rubbish


Think about it deeply, what sort of Democratic Party charges that much just to get on a ballot.

My people, shine your eyes.

The country is fundamentally wrong, so we are just patching and barely moving.

Why do you think the likes of Tinubu can have Bullion vans drive into his house on a day before election and yet face no consequences, but even be presented as a front runner for an election?

Why do the likes of Ganduje face no consequences when seen red handed stuffing his agbada with dollar notes? A video available for all on YouTube

Why do the likes of Ibori get treated to a huge welcome party after those welcoming him know that he had stolen so much money from them, robbing them and their children of development?


Because it is “our theif”, so mind your business. “We know he is a thief but since your theif hasn’t been convicted yet, why are you disturbing our own theif”

Every tribe pulling in different directions.

Ask her if she can go have a picnic in some parts of the north with bum shorts, hair flowing on a beautiful sunny day.


Of course individually, some Nigerians are gifted and most would be if under the right circumstances, but I’m afraid the country itself was never meant to be one cohesive unit.

A number of leading countries in the world have their eyes set on 2030-2035 for the ban of sales of new petrol vehicles.

This would in turn translate to a fall in oil prices as the demand for oil would be drastically reduced after taking so many petrol based vehicles off the roads.

I suggest the country or the different countries after a split, invest heavily in education, and not just academic education but social education as well, thereby increasing our chances of attracting foreign investments in manufacturing.

The number of children on the roads is staggering

Maybe it’s only when one goes to a different country and comes back to Nigeria that you realize just how abnormal this is

You have children jumping on cars at every junction, holding on to moving cars, peeping through windows

Well Nigeria was never designed to work, do I guess these are all symptoms of a bad country