On April Last year, I visited the Imo State Liaison Officer in Lagos. We discussed extensively on how to help our business men in Lagos achieve more success without hindrances. We pointed out the challenges that most Igbo men face in doing business in Lagos nay Nigeria. However, our discussion was dominated by one common challenge faced by businessmen especially importers in Nigeria. And that challenge is the forex exchange! Most Nigerian importers, import from China and they lose a lot of money through foreign exchange. This is because, they change Naira to dollar here in Nigeria, then travel with the dollar to China where they would change it to yuan for their business transactions. He was of the view that Nigerian importers, should change their naira directly to yuan without going through the aforementioned process. He scheduled a meeting with some Igbo business leaders to discuss this and probably propose it to the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria.

Thankfully, the present government has put a pen to paper to make this come to fruition. Something good can actually come out from Nazareth.