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Fulaninigger:
I find this very disturbing, what message does it pass?

This is all shades of wrong. The CJN shouldn't been seeing with politicians nor attend any events

Did Danguje not bow to him? Did you net see The president bow before the senate at budget presentation?

Procashtips:
This one don fail already.

You can't speak the language of your people, yet you want to represent them.

Like Chinedu

BennyDGreat:
That's not true. Nowhere in the Bible says that it is forbidden for there to be female pastors.
Quote the place and we will analyse the context together

1 Timothy 2. 1 Timothy 3, Titus. I am not interested in debating anything with you.

1 Timothy 2:12 “But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet.”

1 Timothy 3:2 “Therefore an overseer must be above reproach the husband of one wife sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach.”

Titus 1:6 “An elder must be blameless, faithful to his wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.”


Analyzing context is how your pastors twists the word. E.g turn tithes into a means of milking the congregation.

The Bible warns about people like you who will try and twist scripture for their own selfish ends.

princemillla:
Thank you so much.

Nigerians have alot to deal with among ourselves.

See more:

https://dailytrust.com/transportation-wike-vows-to-overhaul-abuja-urban-mass-buses/

They are not used disguised as new. They are used abandoned FCT buses. There was a video where WIKE asked his staff where the buses were and instructed they were Renovated and put on the streets so they could effect the ban on keke napep in the asokoto and maitama areas.


Some Nigerians like bad news sha!

I can’t find the video but this is another video where he explained to ireti kinigne why he was bringing back the buses.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb5R9KoEApg?si=u_S6SOMGfblw0RCl


Cc: Princemillla datola akfrenzy

FuckingMachine:
Female comentators in sports.


I'm not feeling it at all. It feels less intense watching a match with a female voice commentating especially for my own team where I have strong passion and adrenaline running.

No offence but female voices just don't match for certain sports and definitely not football. Male commentators convey my passion the right way, these female voices sound like child's play.

A woman's voice calms a man. We don't want to calm down when watching football, we want to be gingered.

Imagine a female commentator for boxing or NBA basketball or WWE where raw passion/adrenaline is needed. It will kill that sport. Females can commentate on less intense sports like golf, beach volleyball or swimming.


I really hope they stop this trend because over the years it will make football lose followership. Let's face it, the only thing a football fan brings is passion. If you remove it then the football fan will not bother to spend money watching his struggling team only when they're doing well.

Most fans don't even have a logical reason for spending on football every weekend, we just love the intensity. If I have to continue listening to a soft female voice when a long range shot is scored or a strong tackle flies in, I will feel disgusted.


This should be stopped.
Thanks.

A world that has female pastors/clergy despite the Bible clearly saying it is forbidden.

God1000:
They are not doing this for the good and benefit of their people but to preserve and protect their military regimes from ECOWAS and other external forces.

Don’t over-estimate the importance of ECOWAS. Their no1 problem is France!

It is a fantastic idea. It is the only way they break the stranglehold that France has had on them. Watch as the French economy collapses.

PDP is finished and they know it. Obi dealt them a severe blow by leaving for LP. If they start to suspend members they will become the No 3 party and LP will start dictating to them in the event of any future alliance.

Imagine Julius Abure dictating to PDP….how have the mighty fallen!!!

It is easy to criticize but true opposition offers solutions. If I were him I would have focused on 51,000 foreign delegates are in dubai for this event. I would be asking when is Nigeria going to be in a state to host the world and attract inflows of forex from 51,000 foreign delegates, the windfall for the hospitality and tourism industry as a result? Our African neighbors, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco (x2), South Africa have all hosted COP, when will we be able to play host? That is how you play the role of opposition. There is nothing he has said that is any different from posts on Nairaland and shows his intellect above posters on Nairaland.

Those with shallow beer parlor minds may not know that there is a lot of funding to be received at COP conferences. For example UAE alone has allocated $4.5b to green energy projects in Africa at this summit. When you hear of solar electricity projects in a village, this is where the money comes from. Western countries are the greatest polluters and the global south are the greatest beneficiaries of green funding from the west. So when you see large delegations from Nigeria and Brazil, it’s because you have to be there to present your case and be present when they are sharing the funds. If anything, I would be looking at the list and asking why my state representatives are not there.

That said what the eff is Toke makinwa doing there, what does butt surgery have to do with climate change?

idolda:
Lol, what about the one signed in 2019 to generate 11,000MW of electricity by 2023 with the same company?

We are already generating 12,000MW. The problem is transmission. Currently transmission is 4000mw. The agreement was/is not for generation, it was/I for transmission. Stop listening to Obi who doesn’t know what he is talking about. Power generation has been privatized, transmission still belongs to the government.

Chingyyy878:
Weddings are so expensive nowadays. To young people that want to start their lives, go to court and have a small dinner with your close friends and family. You can do the party if you’d like years later.

Thanks!

You stole this from twitter verbatim . At least be decent enough to acknowledge the author

Boondocxs:
To show we actually have power in the relationship
Don’t beg and see

When I say power below, I am referring in you ability to attract the best in the opposite sex.

A woman’s power ends by the time she is 35. A man’s power begins in his mid twenties starts to fade 55-60. At that age if you have not secured a good man, the men you rejected at 25 will toss you around because you are of no use to them. At 35 you will struggle to find a life partner of the caliber you turned down in your twenties, at 40 it is almost impossible. At 35 you will realize you need a man but at 35+ you will have to marry below your status, or put up with things you thought you would never do to find a husband. 90% of the single reasonably attractive single women out there are side chicks to married men. I am a married man, I know. Many of them from good homes and I always ask myself how did a girl like this end up a side chick. The answer is usually poor mindset. At that age there are not many options for a single woman. The marryable men are married, if you want a single man, odds are he is struggling and will continue struggling, probably the type of man you rejected when you had power.

God did not design this thing by accident. The purpose of a woman having power in her youth at a time when a man is weak is 1) to have choice of the best suitors 2) to secure the gratitude, loyalty and eternal love of a man at his weakest knowing full well that is what will sustain her when her beauty/ fertility fades and other women come after her husband. It is more difficult for a man to value a woman he that came into his life at his peak.

Don’t waste your youth, don’t waste your power or you will be the one doing the begging. If you know what single mature women go through in the hands of married men, you will not abuse your power. We dont have time for you, we have families, we say come when it is convenient, we say go when we are done. We call you when it is convenient, we dont pick your calls, some of us pass you around. You are a convenience and not a priority….the worst thing from your point of view is you know but you can’t do anything about it, if you leave one married man you will jump into another married man. it is even worse for those of you from decent homes because you don’t want people to know so you take it or endure loneliness or go to single men lesser than the men you rejected in your youth. The Beyoncé and all others that are deceiving all you women with “independent women” are married.

EtinosaDLaw:
Why wasn't the flash drive duplicated and distributed to every senator? Why carry out the whole charade of carrying two empty boxes as if there's something inside?

These people don't rate Nigerians at all. When it's time to allocate billions to themselves, they never waiver. But ask them to do their jobs and you start hearing all sorts of excuses and counter excuses.

The bag is not symbolic as Naptu2 would have you believe. Buhari always shared his hard copies, same with Jonathan. If they wanted to go the flash drive way, its not bad; Its 2023 for chrissakes, its okay to innovate. But to carry empty bags and empty hampers is just a clown show of its own 🤣🤣🤣

May stupidity not kill you. The presenting of a budget in a box is symbolic. You expect him to come to parliament with boxes of 400 page printed budget documents for 109 senators and 360 rep members? Do you think this is Obi who presented boxes and boxes of ballot papers at PEPT for propaganda and did not once use them in evidence? Is that the extent of your intelligence? Some people are here for serious business. May hate not derail your life.

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GO0DHardDick:
True talk.

Single mothers and those girls that grew up with their grandmothers, in all you do, avoid them like plague. They're all oloshos and prostitutes. They can fcck anything they see

And their sons have a tendency to be gay or bisexual.

I have been saying this. Avoid single mother families. Dont marry their children, don’t let your children marry their children, monitor how your children interact with and are influenced by them because they don’t have the same boundaries In their homes as you set in yours.

The prevalence of single motherhood has just started in Nigeria, we have not yet seen the impact. Listen to people who can attest to generations of single mother raised children and the impact on both the. Children and society.

From previous threads on the matter

casualobserver:
It sounds good in theory but if you did not experience a stable home with two parents, you have no reference point to build one yourself. Whatever we learn at home in our formative years is what we carry into the world. It is extremely hard to change dysfunction that has been built into one’s DNA.

We all have habits that we struggle with whose origins can be traced to our youth and upbringing. So for anyone to think you can just overcome family dysfunction is nothing but pure fantasy. It can be done but it takes constant consciousness and vigilance…most will not succeed. Very often those raised in dysfunction are not even aware of the dysfunction. Sometimes you want to over come but can’t because you have no reference point or experience of what it takes. This is why the cycle tends to continue.

A man is brought up in a home by a single mother he has no father reference figure. He has not seen what it takes for a man to have peace at home because he has not experienced the dynamics of 2 parents at close quarters. He starts a family and feels it is everything he has to comment on and does not have the knowledge that for peace you have to learn to see and not see because he has not seen his father have to do these things. A woman is brought up by a single mother, as the breadwinner the mother is naturally masculine and aggressive because she has to perform the masculine roles of a missing father, the daughter has never experienced a scenario where the mother is submissive to anyone or has trust in a man, she has never seen the dynamics of a man and a woman in a stable and peaceful home. How is she supposed to unlearn what she has been nurtured in her formative years and trust and depend on and be a partner to a husband? Children from broken homes are more likely to have broken homes themselves because painful as the experience may have been and determined as they may be to avoid it themselves…. You can’t give what you don’t have! especially these days that marriages are fragile. It is possible but the vast majority will repeat the cycle.

casualobserver:
Did I say so? Learn to read and understand. I am responsible for what I say, I am not responsible for your poor grasp of English.

A child should be raised with both parents, a child should be raised knowing he/ she was wanted. A child and society should not be me made to pay the price of poor irresponsible choices and indiscipline of parents whether father or mother. A child who has not witnessed the proper dynamics of a heathy 2 parent family is by likely to end up damaged and dysfunctional. children of violent homes, single parent homes or parent abandonment by one parent hide a lot of pain, they often vow to correct it but they are often unable to because they don’t know otherwise themselves having not witnessed what it takes to have a stable family. You can’t give what you don’t have.

Gay bisexuality, criminality, gangs etc are symptoms of this dysfunction it’s and it is prevalent amongst black Americans because the family unit is broken down. It The black American family is probably the most dysfunctional family unit in the world. It is very rare to find a black American family with father and mother intact, even rarer to find 2 or 3 generations that were raised in a 2 parent environment, no separation, no divorce. Most of them are products of single parenting, unknown fathers, adoption, separation, women with multiple baby daddy,s men with multiple baby mamas etc etc.

MadamVanessa:


Men are no longer men anymore. Weak and timid. So emotionally ridden.

Our forebearers will be turning in their graves with much disappointment to see the numbers of weak emotional ridden dingbats calling themselves men walking now in the world.

I agree. It’s a result of too many men being raised by single mothers.

Validated:
Who approved the building plan?
How much was paid to LASG for the approval?
Why is Tinubu's Bourdillon house, which clearly contravened the original Ikoyi masterplan not yet marked for demolition?

How does Tinubu’s house contravene the Ikoyi master plan?

Validated:
Who approved the building plan?
How much was paid to LASG for the approval?
Why is Tinubu's Bourdillon house, which clearly contravened the original Ikoyi masterplan not yet marked for demolition?

Since this thing has been ongoing, have you seen anyone show his cofo or building approval?

The commissioner even challenged those who claim to have such to show, till date silence.

You need to u derstand there is a lot of illegality. You also need to know the government can NEVER grant building approval over drainage or canal no matter what anyone tells you. You also need to know that some people are granted building approval but encroach into the canal/drainage sand fill and erect more buildings than stated on the building approval.

Kukutenla:
Wait. Is it because I schooled you on the other thread you're so pained?
Don't blame me
You shouldn't have advertised your ignorance in the first place

Look at this certified m0ron. You kept insisting the earth was flat, when I realized I am dealing with another brain dead Nigerian. I sarcastically humored you to be rid of you so I will be left in peace. You are now saying you schooled me? Someone whose tourism revenue master plan is for government to collect N500 at yankari and Oluomo rock that no tourist will go to because the roads are bad and the country in insecure?

Now you are here saying the nurse “might” be at fault for not seeking consent before praying? What is the “might” there?

We’re you dropped as a child or is your stupidity hereditary?

Kukutenla:
There's no sense in this comment
Delete it

You need to delete your brain as it is not serving any purpose.

Kukutenla:
Nigerians and always wanting to validate the white man's ways.
What exactly is wrong with praying for someone in pains and in need of comfort.
Where i might find fault is if she did not seek and obtain consent from the patient.
Man is a social animal and relationships permeate boundaries and they get more intimate.
So, all these treatment of humans like mechanical tools without empathy or mental connections is inhumane in my view.

You are here again, posting like a mor0n up and down. Do you not understand professionalism? Do you not understand professional ethics? Did her patient ask her for prayers?

Which one is “might”?

Nincompoop!

Babaken:
The same people they introduce Christianity to us.

They used it to collect your land and resources just as your pastors use it to collect your money.

Kukutenla:
Oh but you were so sure of yourself you labelled anyone who disagreed with you daft or buffoon.

You need a brain check

The 1mbecile does not understand sarcasm, he thinks I agree with him. When you need to be rid of a pest, you tell them what they want to hear so you don’t dumb down your brain with continued engagement.

Kukutenla:
You're just being unreasonably daft
I already educated you. Take it with gratitude and move on. Ability to write long epistle does not equate intelligence or understanding. Get it right

Since you are on an ego trip, you are the fountain of knowledge, the country could do with you in charge of its economy. Now clap for yourself and run along.

Kukutenla:
It was not an error. It was an exhibition of ignorance borne out of arrogance. But it's ok since you have received well the education.

Your argument was that govt does not make money from tourism beyond taxes which i corrected. You are still in shock at the fact that goct makes money outside tax from tourism obviously. GDP is based on aggregate of economic activity not just spending. You keep equating spending to GDP. Spending is just an aspect of GDP. The tourist guides who pay tax and license fees, the travel agencies, those who work to maintain the tourist sites all contribute to the GDP. However, what you should be aware of is that tourism will not exist at all if that $200 is not paid to run and maintain the sites.
So, it is not just about taxes but aggregate of economic activity. Your claim is just like saying the taxes paid by telecoms companies is the most important factor in telecoms while you are unaware that telecoms companies actually pay for license to use frequencies to the govt before they start paying tax. The telecoms companies then employ service vendors who also pay tax along the line. It's the aggregate of those monies that forms the contribution of the telecoms sector to our economy and not just the tax they pay.
I see you have tacitly accepted the education I gave you on tax revenue differential between SA and Nigeria. Good for you.

I suggest you actually read some books and educate yourself instead of forming your opinions from half baked analysts on TV.

The tourism industry is not the N509 entry fee to Oluomo rock but the $5000 you spend along the way. I. Any event Nigeria is incapable of attracting the sort of tourism based on the current level of decay of infrastructure, the lack of interesting places, the insecurity and the attitude of those in the hospitality industry.

Kukutenla:
Stop lying. That's not a typo. You obviously don't know what a typo means. What you can claim is that it's a freudian slip or misspeak and not a typo. So much for your intelligence.
It is also obvious that you are very confident in your ignorance. You're still yapping on $20 or is it $200? That shows why you have such limited knowledge.
As I pointed out to you about exchange rate, SA's tax revenue for 2022 is 1.69trn rand while Nigeria's tax revenue in same period is 10trn naira.
In order words, Nigeria made five times of SA's tax revenue in respective local currency and economy. However, trouble starts when you convert it to US dollars. SA's becomes $94bn while Nigeria's own sinks to $22bn using 2022 exchange rate. If you use our present exchange rate, it will hover around $11bn.
I hope you are not to dim upstairs to see the difference!!

cc nairalanda1, codemaniacs

At least I was man enough to acknowledge that particular error unlike you nitwits whose entire arguments are based on ego and can never admit errors and will continue to defend the indefensible.

I said the most a tourist will spend on tourist sites is $200. This is based on the assumption that he visits 10 sites at an average of $20 entry per site. Not all sites charge and not all tourists actually visit tourist sites. $200 is simply the most a tourist will spend on entry into tourist sites. I simply gave the figure of $200 as the max you will get for an enthusiastic tourist visiting many tourist sites. In Nigeria it will be much less. I can’t imagine any govt site charging N5000 ($5) entry fee.

Now, a tourist comes to your country to spend $5000 and for you to think that the $20 entrance fee ( maximum $200). Should be the focus and target of govt revenues? That is how you want to increase govt revenues? It shows how small minded you are. Our entire tourism industry in Nigeria is only $2.9b. Have we collected $580m in tourism related government revenue?

The global standard for govt revenue to GDP is 20%. Nigeria is roughly 10%. As it stands there is potential 10% govt revenue we aren’t collecting due to lapses in the tax collection system. Do you know what GDP is? Somebody comes into the country to spend or contribute $5000 to your GDP and the result of your education and enlightenment is to focus on the $20-$200 he may spend on entrance fees when there is a potential $500- $1000 in taxes (depending on how much your tax compliance currently collects and can inprove) that you are losing out on because you are not collecting the taxes you are supposed to collect on the $5000 he spent on flights, restaurants taxis, transport, hotels, etc etc.

What you have demonstrated is you clearly do not understand economics. Again you should runaway in shame for typing that the l tourism industry is the entrance fee collected. It shows you are an economics simpleton.

Kukutenla:
The bolded is why it is not good to talk too much especially when it is lies. You end up forgetting the things you say and deny almost in the next breath. Look below. I have helped you delete a lot of the long rant because nothing there really makes sense which is why you're denying making such statements.



You are also showing your absolute cluelessness by looking down on $200. If 5000 pilgrims from Nigeria (the number of pilgrims from Nigeria to Saudi is more than that every year) pay $200 to access the historic sites, that's $1m already!! Just imgaine making $1m from Nigerian pilgrims alone.
You're not really smart. Take your time and think through issues more.
My point on exchange rate making difference in dollar equivalent of budget still stands. Even SA budget is not up to 5trn rands and their budget is almost four times larger than ours with our 23trn.
Borrow a brain ASAP

The part on Nigeria owning all the oil was a typo and it was within the context of forex from Oil who owns the forex. At the time I was arguing with another slowpoke like yourself who claimed all forex from exports belonged to the govt. it is assumed that any educated person knows the partnership arrangements with the oil producing companies. So all forex the govt gets from their share belongs to them because they own the oil.

The rest of your submissions are utter nonsense and clearly from someone who has no understanding of how economies work. Someone who thinks the $20 entrance fee is the tourism industry!!!


To Engagie you any further is to lower my IQ. I only responded for the sake of others who are reading and because you pointed out a legitimate error.

Kukutenla:
You are writing a lot of story without making any point. You pay to access tourism sites in Israel and Saudi and the income goes to govt. Not all the money made in tourism goes to govt but govt makes revenue from toursim beyond taxes.
Secondly, not all the monsy from oil goes to the Nigerian govt. You are ignorant about the matter. Nigerian govt gets just about 60% of the revenue from oil. The rest goes to the IOCs, dealers, brokers and what not. Even NNPC keeps back a percentage of the oil revenue.
Nigerian govt is one of the most inefficient and terribly mismanaged in the world. You can take that to the bank.
That's why you all are saying Nigeria is poor.

Where did I say “ all the monsy from oil goes to the Nigerian govt”? I said the government owns the oil. Learn to read and comprehend. It is because they own the oil they can benefit in such a manner from the oil and gas industry and the forex from Oil belongs to them. This is why despite being a supposedly English speaking country, Nigerians require English proficiency tests to gain admission to universities abroad.



You really are a dimwit. Because the government charges for access to historic sites does that mean that tourist who goes to Israel or Saudi and May spend $5000 on hotels fights restaurants taxis etc and only $200 to visit historic government sites. In your warped mind the tourism industry is the $200 the government received in tourism site access fees? Look the amount a tourist spends on taxis alone is more than the fees to historic sites. If you go to yankari or Olumo rock today, is the amount you spend on entrance fees the tourism industry…Jesus wept How daft and brain dead are you people? If you think the entrance fee to historic sites is the tourism industry, you are an even bigger buff00n than I thought.

Kukutenla:
Even if you collect higher taxes, if the value of your currency is poor, the money will amount to nothing in terms of real value. Nigeria's revenue has steadily increased in nominal terms since APC came on board. But the value when compared in dollars still remain almost the same from 2015. So, it's not about more revenue but the value of the currency. Just imagine that $1 equals N100. Use that to calculate the new values of the budget and see how different everything looks

You are daft and efforts to educate you is a waste of time.

Kukutenla:
Your claim on tourism is wrong. US, UK, Israel, Saudi and other countries all over the world run and maintain tourism sites were they generate money. An easy example is pilgrimage to both Saudi and Israel. This religious tourism are run by the govt of both countries.
For export, just like Nigeria's oil, there are export activities that can also generate revenue for govt without necessarily being tax. An example happened during covid when US sold ventilators to some countries. So it's not strictly tax alone that give makes revenue off.

I have already responded and I do not wish to repeat myself.


There is a difference between the economy and the government. I think you people are conflating the 2. There is also a difference between sources of forex to the economy and sources of government revenue.

I have already made myself clear. Governments all over the world make money from taxes in one form or another. Governments seek to boost the economy because. The bigger the economy, the more the taxes they can collect.

The tourist who brings his $1000 to Nigeria does not arrive at the airport and say here government this is my $1000 add it to your government revenue. He sells it to someone who needs dollars and spends the Naira he receives In the economy. It is the places where he spends that Naira that the government taxes In the form of levies, fees, permits income tax company tax etc. as soon as that tourist enters Nigeria he becomes like any other Nigerian. He is spending Naira just like any other Nigerian. My point from the start is that if govt is not plugging tax leakages in the economy, e.g restaurants patronized by tourists then the extra economic activity brought into the economy by tourists will not translate into increased govt revenue. All that will happen is the exchange rate will improve and beside charges like visa fees etc, govt will not see much of the revenue brought in by tourists.

The misconception is that any income from exports or tourism goes straight to the government. The only reason why in the case of oil and gas all income goes to the government is because THEY OWN IT.
Govt does not own the forex of a private individual or organization. Government wants you to bring in forex not to own it but to help the exchange rate. Govt does not make any money simply because I bring forex into the country. To prove this, diaspora remittance into Nigeria has been more than our oil revenues for the last 4 years. It hasn’t affected government revenues. It can’t because it is not their money.

Your tourism examples are bad examples. I do t understand what you are trying to say by saying countries have tourism sites…what is the point of that? Every country wants to promote tourism. Plus the US govt does not make anything. A lot of their aid is done to boost their companies. If they donate medicines to you, they know they know it will benefit their local pharmaceutical companies. The purpose of tourism is to bring additional customers for your industries. Hotels airlines. restaurants etc not that the money from tourists go directly to the government. The more your industries boom the more taxes you collect…but only if they are actually paying taxes. Otherwise you have a booming economy and low govt revenues. Again It is important to understand the difference between the economy and the government. Boosting the economy does not mean you are boosting government revenues if your tax collection system is plagued with poor compliance and collection.

This whole thing is about increasing and sources of govt revenue. If you are exporting and the govt is not receiving taxes, your economy will grow but your government income will not grow. All the benefit will go to the private sector which is what we have in Nigeria. If tourists are coming to your country, your exchange rate will benefit, your economy will benefit but tourists do not spend dollars, they spend Naira. Therefore if you do not plug your tax collection leakages, the economy will benefit but govt revenues will not see a corresponding benefit.

What I see here is a misunderstanding between the economy, the government, government revenues and foreign exchange and currency stability and the interplay between them.

Tourism and exports are part of the domestic economy, an exporter, a hotelier, a restaurant are businesses just like any other Nigerian business except they have the potential for foreign customers. When you say tourism, it is the same hotel that you and I go they will go to and they will spend Naira not forex. As far as the business that provides the service to the tourist, it is a Naira transaction but influx of tourists simply increase volume of business. As far as the man who manufactures, he manufactures just like every other manufacturer except he has foreign customers. If the government was not collecting the right amount of taxes from these businesses when they didn’t have foreign customers. The level of government revenue will not increase simple because. They now have more business in the form of tourists and exports. All that will happen like I said is that the exchange rate will improve and the economy will improve.

The real issue is we are not collecting the right amount of taxes corresponding to a $440b economy, tourism or no tourism, exports or no exports. It is the same people who are not paying the right taxes today, that will benefit from improved economic activity from increased exports and tourism activities that won’t pay taxes unless govt plugs the holes. So unless we plug the current loopholes, all exports and tourism will do is improve the economy and exchange rate. Like I said, though linked, exchange rate is different from the economy and is different from govt or govt revenues. It is how well we are able to link them together. And so far we’ve not done well. If we improve the tax loopholes, there is more scope for increased govt revenue than tourism or exports can bring to Nigeria.

Finally on tourism, Nigeria has not got what it takes to be a destination for foreign tourists in the near to medium future. All this talk of tourism is just theory. We haven’t got the infrastructure or the hospitality culture and even if we started today and are, serious it would take a decade to make Nigeria semi-attractive to foreign tourists. Even those of us in Nigeria dread to travel internally. If I wasn’t a Nigerian I wouldn’t come to Nigeria.

Chingyyy878:
Why is it a problem to date a friend ex, what if she’s a God’s plan for me ?

Your friends ex can never be Gods plan for you!

It is a sign you cannot be trusted!