Send someone to Computer Village, Alausa or Balogun in Lagos
Three hours of Lagos traffic to stand in one queue is three hours you do not get back. Send someone who is already on that side of the bridge. They front the cash at the counter; escrow pays them back when you confirm the handover.
Queues, markets and offices in Lagos
Queue at Alausa secretariat, Ikeja
State forms, vehicle papers, anything that opens at 8am and has a line by 7.
Computer Village, Ikeja
A part, a phone, a repair collected. You cap the spend; they send the receipt before you are charged.
Balogun and Alaba
Bulk buying on the Island or in Ojo without spending a day in it.
Immigration and NIN offices
Ikoyi, Alausa, Festac. Someone holds the place and calls you when you are near the front.
Parcel pickup across the bridge
A courier office that shuts at 5 and is forty minutes away in the wrong direction.
Bank and utility counters
The things that still need a human at a window. The runner pays and is reimbursed from escrow.
Areas of Lagos a runner covers
A runner can only accept an errand in the city it was posted in. Lagos is set to 45 km from the centre, so an errand anywhere in this list is one errand, not a trip between cities.
- Ikeja
- Yaba
- Surulere
- Victoria Island
- Lekki
- Ajah
- Ikoyi
- Oshodi
- Festac
- Maryland
- Gbagada
- Lagos Island
How sending someone works
- 1Post and fund
Say what you need, the most the runner may spend, and a fee. That total is held from your wallet. Nothing goes live unfunded.
- 2They run it
A verified runner accepts, checks in from the queue or the counter, and pays with their own money up to your ceiling.
- 3Hand over
They show a 6-digit code; you type it into your phone. That releases the money — their spend back, plus the fee. Anything unused returns to you.
The errands people ask about most
Questions about Lagos
- Does Zendrun work across the whole of Lagos?
- A runner can only accept an errand inside the city it is posted in. Lagos is set to a 45 km radius from the centre, which covers the mainland and the island, out to Ajah and Festac.
- Can I send a runner from the mainland to the island?
- Yes — it is one city, so it is one errand. Set the deadline honestly: the app warns a runner when an errand has less time than it usually needs, and most Lagos errands need more than the map says.
- How much can a runner spend on my behalf in Lagos?
- As much as their verification tier allows, and never more than the ceiling you set. The ceiling, the headroom, the runner's fee and the platform fee are all held from your wallet before the errand goes live.
- Is this a delivery service?
- No. A courier moves a parcel from A to B. A runner does the thing: joins the queue, talks to the clerk, pays at the counter, picks the right one of four, and hands it to you with a code. Delivery is often the last step, not the job.
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