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Lame excuse from someone who believes western education is a sin

thebosstrevor1:
I am not British and i don't care about English tenses.

You can't even speak or write better than your colonial masters who gave you the language

Regime supporters trying to counter the reality that food prices have skyrocketed because of the president's obsession with imposing cattle grazing and worsening insecurity by those who feel emboldened by the president's body language

There is nothing... Not Their is nothing. If not you believe western education was a sin, you would have gotten your tenses right.

thebosstrevor1:
I was expecting your reply, just like your boss Nnamdi kanu is obsessed with fulanis, i will be obsessed with igbo people and their is nothing you can do about it except boiling with anger and rage

Daalu

I don't care. Its just a dog. These Democrats and yeye political correctness. You didn't give a hoot when fellow humans were being killed in Palestine, now you're putting out a press statement about a dog.

You have not said anything, only throwing wild statements that sound sensational which is what kids of this generation do. I can summarise Nigerian history for you here. Postcolonial rulers Azikiwe president, Balewa prime minister were outsted by the military, from there the military kept upstaging themselves till democracy briefly returned in 1979-83. Then more military coups till democracy finally returned with Abdusalam northerner handing over to Obasanjo southerner, then Obasanjo southerner to Yar'Adua northerner, then Goodluck southerner to Buhari northerner. So your statements have no basis

MondayOsunbor:
seriously and you have a lot of gaps in your


understanding of Nigeria

oga please take time study your History

Exactly! Everyone just carrying on like all is well.

hstar:
I thought about the everyday rising inflation for a while and I was like, is this how all of us would be looking?

Well we are all in it together

I don't know who is noodle generation. I'm almost 40years old

MondayOsunbor:
LOL noddle generation mark my word

buhari will handover to Buhari

una never know the heart of fulani

hear it from me again
FULANI DOES NOT SHARE POWER

How come nobody is talking about the alarming increase in food prices? A paint rubber of beans that sold for N800 during the first lockdown is now N2,600. Rice, yam, other staples are now astronomically high. Eggs now N1,700 a crate. The scaring thing is that the prices shoot up every day, not like before that it will tarry a while. A lady I bought roasted corn from told me the farmers they buy from can't go the farms to harvest because it's highly unsafe, that they had to contribute lots of money and pay a team of mopols to accompany them. And even that is still highly risky.
Other federal administrations have come and gone, how come its Buhari's time it is seeming impossible to grow crops and livestock together?
I know Buhari wants to be a northern hero. Why not tackle the number one problem of your region which is illiteracy? The man has never built a single school in the north even with all the federal resources at his disposal. Or does he also subscribe to the notion that western education is a sin?
I don't want this country to break into Biafra, Oduduwa etc. I know once May 29 2023 comes, and somebody else enters power. This whole herdsmen cow menace will just vanish into thin air. But the question is: can we survive till 2023? Its just 2021. We haven't even entered 2022.
If this was a country where people can agree on what is good and bad, these issues won't be this bad. But in Nigeria, good and bad are relative. If you criticize Buhari, core northerners and Yoruba Muslims will attack you. On this thread people are already saying Ipob etc. Everything is a tribal and religious fight. Those of us that are neutral, can't even be heard. It's frustrating

It was a joke...and by the way, the word you're looking for is gracing not grazing

Seniorwriter:
Mature...though with a pinch of inner pain.
If she's wise she'll just move on and start another lovely relationship.

Likely....

In another news I've noticed that weekends on NL is always with very boring news grazing FP.
My opinion though.

So the word grazing should be only exclusively used to those nonsense you highlighted? SMH @you...

E choke...lols
@Seniorwriter

Oga abeg no mention anything "grazing" or cow related here o. The country dey on edge right now

Seniorwriter:
Mature...though with a pinch of inner pain.
If she's wise she'll just move on and start another lovely relationship.

Likely....

In another news I've noticed that weekends on NL is always with very boring news grazing FP.
My opinion though.

@Seniorwriter

She can't move on, the guy is rich!

oluswaggz:
This woman is embittered honestly. I can sense pains behind those smiley emojis and reactions.

She needs to move on

Nobody cares if she dey knack outside. Even ighalo sef no send am. Once you get money scatter women go dey run follow you. Na day time dem go dey try wan prove say dem dey faithful. But you no need their faithfulness

Mikelarteta:
This babe go Dey knack wella for outside. My thoughts though. What is good for the geese is good for the gander.

Oh just shut your dirty mouth there. Most footballers, musicians, politicians and business men doing very well have multiple women in their lives. Women are hypergamous in nature, it is the natural cycle for a successful man to have multiple women. So shove your Useless shallow mentality.

phemmyfour:
Ighalo is irresponsible. No wonder his glory in ManU was short lived.

Musa went that line too and he became club less before Kano pillars rescued him.

Never joke with the wife of your youth.....the consequences can be enormous

K

That was my NYSC set. I remember being in the interior part of Kebbi when news started filtering in that Buhari had lost and northerners were attacking corpers, we made it just in time out of that remote enclave to the city centre and stripped of anything giving you away as a corper and ran to the 1battalion dukku barracks in badariya area to take shelter along with many southerners. We were the guinea pigs used to test the waters of using Corps members for election duties, frankly, many of us didn't know if it was compulsory for optional.
Buhari's pre election rhetorics led to the mob action that killed those corpers. In saner climes he should have been in jail, but GEJ was not interested in anything else after being declared winner. Now, the same Buhari as a hypocrite is compensating families of people he killed himself.

This one never enter, he don dey celebrate going and coming out of hospital

cover not covered

fuckingAyaya:
Why did you covered your face?

I don't care. It has nothing to do with me

Drivers want to earn more, the apps have to find a way about it. It could be reduced commission, charging for waiting time, making sure the app correctly calculates fares cos many times after a long trip, with multiple re-routing, the final fare amounts to nothing and when you complain to them, they don't answer you. And the issue of safety. Many drivers have lost their lives and no proper profiling to apprehend the culprits

Kalubolt:
If you're talking of reduce percentage and passengers profiling fine, but talking about increasing the fare, do you have the riders in mind. In this economic hardship you still want them to increase the fare. What if the riders themselves start protesting the hike in ride fares cus that's what I found out majority drivers are looking for

Typical Nigerian, people are trying to push for a better wage that you will also benefit from, you are here trying to sound smart, trying to impress, trying to sound educated. You've been on the Bolt app for less than 2years, how do you think the bonus and little concessions you're enjoying came about? These are products of constant agitations by folks like you. How do you think even taxify now bolt came about in Nigeria? They studied the market and took advantage of the agitations drivers had against uber which was the high commission (25%) and crashed theirs to 20%. Some other platform can enter the market and crash it further to 15%. It's possible. How about proper passenger profiling? Not just "Don X" or "Mhiz K"? So that you have a bit of safety? Or you also have a hack for that? Business negotiations are a constant activity in any economic endeavour. Wages and working conditions can always get better. If you can't support something you yourself will benefit on, then at least just keep shut, its the least you can do.

Kalubolt:
My friend speak for yourself, I have been on the Bolt app for a year and six month. I have never been ban or ask questions. You guys should drop your egos and treat riders right. As for bonuses, so you want free bonus and don't to work for it. 55 trips from Monday to Friday is 11 trips per day, so how is that overworking yourself and killing the car.
If you want me to teach how to accept every ride and don't go all and still have your acceptance rate intact, call on me. I accept every goddamn ride but I select which one to go or not and my acceptance rate is 100%, so call on me to teach you and stop all this complain.

"The worst of military is best than the best of democracy Abi how do they say it again"����

Next thread: "I was quoted out of context by malicious agents of the opposition..."

Northern dominated as usual... The northerners get all the juicy positions - directors of procurement, defence attaches, theatre commanders etc. This new coas is even more northern than the previous

Regular cabs?? Oh so you view this as a "fight" by regular cabs against uber/Bolt? You couldn't be more wrong! These drivers including myself are active drivers on the uber/bolt platforms. Who still uses regular cabs haggling for a rickety ride? Lol you're so funny o. This is the bane of Nigeria: we always think of everything as having one ulterior motive or the other, if we can't readily find one, we make up one.
Bro, this is simply uber/bolt drivers looking out door their own best interests. That's all there is to it. Any platform that offers the best, we drive. Freedom of choice

efficiencie:
Lol! Hero worship? I am not worshipping anything here but clearly you are critical of Uber/Bolt in a way that doesn't seem justified by your explanation. You claim the union does not have coercive powers but they engaged in a strike action against Uber/Bolt due to the fares and their cut and now they want to lobby union members into patronizing a so called local app. See I am not saying anyone isn't free to choose whatever platform they like rather I'm saying the solution advanced by the union of drivers does not amount to bringing about competition in the market...rather they just want to have greater benefits for themselves at the expense of the welfare of consumers...their main motivation is anchored on the differential fares between the regular cabs and the Uber/Bolt cabs. They see that consumers are shifting from patronizing regular cabs to Uber/Bolt and they are panicking like crybabies!

Let's analyse your points raised: on the question of union, let me have you know it is impossible to have the MC oluomo type arrangement in this case. Simply for the mere fact that these are strictly private, unmarked cars. Nobody can identify me or force me to drive for a particular app. All apps will woo me and I will choose the one with the best package for me. Ditto you the passenger. Even the govt knows they can't enforce anything on the drivers and passengers of ehailing directly because it is an anonymous market hence they have to collect taxes via the App companies while the app companies in turn deduct via commissions. Nobody can force me to join a union. The union you feel so threatened by is at best an informal aggregation of persons in the same industry. It is a persuasive body, lacking any coercive powers. In some parts of the EU, neither uber nor Bolt is allowed to operate, there is nothing sacrosanct about them, I don't understand your hero worship of them. What's your stake as a passenger is the lowest fare and good service, what's my stake as a driver is competitive prices and good work conditions. This tussle is replicated in all spheres of human endeavours. So I don't understand this hostility

efficiencie:
Lol. Competition my foot. A union of drivers want to patronize one local app and you call that competition. You can fool many but not someone who understands market structures. Anywhere there is a union you have imperfect markets and anywhere you find imperfect markets you find that prices are not entirely subject to creative destruction or the natural forces of demand and supply. As a matter of empirics imperfect markets are consistent with wastage and underutilization of inputs' capacity...you cited Glo but you forget that there isn't enough competition in telecoms market for it to generate maximum gains to the consumers. The few suppliers in the industry render crappy services, change tariffs at will even when demand hasn't changed significantly, comparatively charge higher tariffs than is obtainable in countries where true competition exists and lobby the government to block entry into the industry...if Uber/Bolt has refused to raise its charges then deal with it...go get another local app and charge higher prices and see what will happen to Bolt/Uber demand. The only card you lots can wield is to lobby the government to use mumu government policy to stifle real competition!

There is no MC Oluomo scenario here. I own my car, its a private car, unmarked. Nobody can ever stop me and say him and I are in a union. So, its not the MC Oluomo type of union, this is just a voluntary coming together by various private individuals for the purpose of getting better service conditions. Currently, uber charges 25percent commission, bolt 20percent. They could charge 15 or even 10percent and still make humongous profits while the driver earns a bit more and the customer fare isn't increased. Then, they could address some other concerns like proper passenger profiling. Abroad, both the passenger and driver are properly profiled for each's safety, but in Nigeria, only the driver is properly profiled for the passenger's safety and not vice versa. You know how many drivers have been killed, robbed, etc? When police asks the ehailing company for the passenger's profile, all they registered was "Don X", "Mhiz K", etc.

einsteine:
Nope. This would INCREASE prices not force down prices. This new app is being pushed by a drivers' union. What is the major purpose of such unions? Price fixing. How can you have union and competition in the same sentence? There is no plan for competition here, rather it is an attempt to push prices up so that drivers' can unduly earn more

Same Ikoyi club the foreign Mr Smiths and Mr Greens are also wining and dining with their local business counterparts? Bro what concerns me as a driver is simply the platform that offers me the best price and conditions of service. Monopoly or duopoly can't give me that. Only a market with multiple players can guarantee that. Same for you a customer, the more platforms, the better for you to choose from.

texazzpete:
It’s just an app, bro. Not a battleground. Na you get inferiority complex to be looking at demons everywhere.


This thing no even get anything to do with foreign owned vs indigenous sef. Power brokers are chasing Uber and Bolt out of the market to install apps they have personal stakes in.

People are cashing out and leaving the broke l, ignorant people to be arguing about patriotism

Dem Dey laugh people like you for Ikoyi club.

Competition can never increase prices, its the opposite. As for the union, even workers in sectors with stiff competition belong to unions food, beverage, tobacco, FMCG etc all have unions. Unions don't increase prices, only serves to protect interests of members. Let me give you just two examples: many drivers have been killed in the line of work and the app companies couldn't even help the police with investigations not because they were unwilling but because they didn't properly profile and vet users of their platform. Secondly countless times, the app stops reading and a passenger is charged a ridiculously low fare. No customer service for the driver only for the customer. You can oppose this, but know that a rider today could be a driver tomorrow

einsteine:
Nope. This would INCREASE prices not force down prices. This new app is being pushed by a drivers' union. What is the major purpose of such unions? Price fixing. How can you have union and competition in the same sentence? There is no plan for competition here, rather it is an attempt to push prices up so that drivers' can unduly earn more

I am also a Bolt driver. Stop misleading the public: the bonuses are not automatic, you have to complete a stringent number of conditions to earn them, 55 rides, 90% acceptance and completion rates, etc. By the time you work like Jacky to meet those conditions, you have worked yourself to the ground and your car must develop one major fault that will take all the money and more. Then because you don't want to default on the acceptance rate, you can't reject rides even your instincts tells you is dangerous cos no matter what reason you give for rejecting a ride your activity rating dips and you get threatened with permenant deactivation. They are so eager to please customers and treat you like disposable diapers because they know people like you will take anything.
How many times have you gone on long trips with numerous passenger delays and at the end of the day the passenger is charged a paltry fee? Is your self-esteem that low? You don't think you deserve anything? How many times have passengers themselves told you they don't agree with what they were charged that it was too small and even dashed you out of pity? How about proper passenger profiling nko? We've been appealing for this since. You still see a request no proper name just "Don X" "Miss K". How many drivers have lost their lives or their cars? They dangle bonus with strict conditions to you, you're coming here to spew stuff. As a driver, increased competition is to your advantage, you can decide the best company to work for and they will all be eager to give you the best working conditions. So stop asslicking

Kalubolt:
I am Bolt/Taxify driver. What I see from my colleagues is greed and selfishness. With the current fare and 20% commission, we still make atleast 40k weekly aside the car delivery and other expenses. Just bcus Bolt and Uber didn't increase the fare to hurt riders that's why they are crying and happy for a new app that they don't know how those ones will work out. The greedy drivers won't tell you about the 13k weekly bonuses and 3k Saturday and Sunday bonuses.

I take it that you are a consumer and not an agent of uber/Bolt. Now if you're just a customer, then you should be happy for more competition entering into the field as this can only be to your advantage. We all know how Glo forced others to adopt per second billing at a time they all swore it was impossible. Even though today most people still use Airtel and MTN, the presence of Glo and 9mobile (both indigenous companies) is what is making these foreign guys not rip you apart. So, I'm surprised when I read comments such as yours opposing and denigrating...is it a case of Stockholm syndrome? Competition that will force down prices for you, you are opposing it. Na wa o

efficiencie:
...all of these you have said are just benefiting the drivers and they do not aim to satisfy consumers...and you will need a big spending investor who is willing to face the risks of going toe to toe against Bolt/Uber...as it stands Bolt/Uber provide services that benefit the consumers and I can imagine what the cost of the indigenous apps would be to their customers...Uber/Bolt will ultimately knock the competition out of business because they aim at boosting consumer experience at affordable fares. The agitation of the so called union is from the competitive fares of Uber/Bolt compared to the regular cabs and it seems Uber/Bolt is pricing the regular cabs out of business and they are revolting like kids...however, I think getting customer profiles is quite important for security reasons.