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Excellent choice....

This is great in my opinion as long as France does not put stupid neocolonial clauses in the contract which Nigeria should be smart enough to detect.

That is clauses like we will march into that country if our business interests are been threatened.... This historically has been their signature,but then.....

What is good about this is using the cat to guard the mouse, if they were truly involved in northern extremism has suspected by some, they would be able to curb it, 2. If it's truly the Chinese allowing illegal miners and not protecting the communities, then they need a counter that can take action

Nigeria has too many resources that has made it's people unsafe,Nigeria should come up with strategies to prevent illegal mining,as they are been mined anyway at the cost of the peace of local communities.

My own question is why do the banks sell way below the official rate?

That's why a large proportion of Nigerians still use the bdcs

My take.

Leave all matters of personal income tax and company tax out of the bill for now,Nigerians and Nigerian companies are just trying to survive right now,it's not the time to increase income tax,just because one earns 2million a month, so deductions now become 600k when rent has increased,fuel has increased and food,sfees all bills etc

Adding more taxes to smes that are classified as earning 150 million a year will only drive the costs to the same consumers,it's like the people are not poor enough or struggling enough


When you successfully wipe out the middle class what's left in the country,who is buying other people's good and services

My point is not now,this cannot be the stimulus people really need,a feeling goverment will not do this,every extra naira matters to people till the damage on the fuel and dollar is undone

The bill can focus on the sharing formula.

I have a key suspicion of what the benefits may be,it's long term and only a leader like tinubu can pull it off.

The key is the establishment of Nigerian banks in France. Ask yourself how french products ran the streets in Nigeria for a long time with no competition and the prices were cheap. Who benefitted the most and how can nigeria benefit directly from such arrangements in the future....

How can nigeria benefit from an economic relationship with France....what is the volume of our real trade with them or what items are of potential value to us that France has. Think Saint Louis sugar of back in the day and now... think energy,France is the power house of alternate energy...

Lastly we are sorrounded by dumb hostile anti nigeria and anti France nations in the north,classic case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend... no permanent allies or enemies here. Only interests

This is not a lame move,that I'm sure...we just need to keep reminding ourselves and our leaders, that Frances historical relationship with Africa and Haiti has been vampire like parasitic.and not to agree to their foolish clauses such as,

1. To set military boots on a sovereign soil when Frances bussiness interests are threatened... that was the basis for invading Libya

2. To collect the value back or destroy everything they contributed when the agreements end or are terminated .... like they did in Haiti and some other places


That said nigerias association with France is something we should all keep a close eye on.. please what have we agreed to with France,someone please use the FOI bill.

Teenaira:
That may not be totally true. Nigerians are actually paying more than this because there are all manners of uncoordinated illegal taxes which Nigerian are forced to pay by touts, local government and state government. Infact, nobody knows how much tax we pay in Nigeria. It is going to be a tough job for government to stop some of these taxes all over the country but if we make efforts, we might start having some level of sanity and some of these taxes could then be legitimised and a proper framework put in place to administer them. But my brother, it will require great efforts. Majority of taxes paid by Nigeria currently goes to individuals and not government.

They should seek business owners input on that aspect of the deal,and their desire to tax those with 100,000,000 million annual inflow up to 30 percent. let people breathe...

Teenaira:
That may not be totally true. Nigerians are actually paying more than this because there are all manners of uncoordinated illegal taxes which Nigerian are forced to pay by touts, local government and state government. Infact, nobody knows how much tax we pay in Nigeria. It is going to be a tough job for government to stop some of these taxes all over the country but if we make efforts, we might start having some level of sanity and some of these taxes could then be legitimised and a proper framework put in place to administer them. But my brother, it will require great efforts. Majority of taxes paid by Nigeria currently goes to individuals and not government.

Do you run a business? Do you know how tough people find it to set a fair price on products and services, and then now add 15 percent on it?.

When they started their enforcement some years back with interest on arrears on VAT,people simply abandoned their business account. Now I know the tax boys will go for all accounts, summary is to abandon the business of it isn't profitable anymore.

Do you know the volume of businesses waiting for dollar to drop? Now some clowns want them to find a way to increase the money they collect so they can pay VAT... Nigerians need a break.

Do not tax individuals or businesses more than the present rate,regardless of their income. Everyone rich and poor in Nigeria need a break right now and not increased taxation

A responsive Goverment will be thinking of reducing taxes not increasing any form of tax in the country,lots of businesses not even paying VAT are hanging by the thread...

You all should check clearly what does this mean for individuals and businesses

If VAT truly becomes 15%, companies that are actually paying might as well start closing up.

A round of applause for Onome for been a helper in a faraway land. May she find help too...

Lesson learnt, naija still has hope

The axe told the trees it was one of them. They believed and celebrated because its handle was made of wood.

Intresting thread,

Just so you all know, you can assess a man's ambition, and self esteem level from the kind of woman he marries.

What does that tell us about the comments we have seen so far on this thread..

Interesting thread,please go on

God bless our military,this is one of the most significant regional military endeavors. It's not only wars that should bring our military in africa together.

Since time immemorial foreigners have used the guise of such activities across nations of the world to get to know the ranks and files of military for "should the need arise" stakeholder type engagements for different purposes.

I'm glad Africa is promoting this same strategy to unite our military amicably and not on account of wars and disputes.

See how we all know trump will not fully support Ukraine cos of his ability to engage putin....we have renewed hope of dialogue in that matter cos of their existing cordial relationship.

That's the potential power of these kind of engagements for Africa, in future some cross border issues may be resolved with just a phonecall amongst military brethren

As for those asking how this solves hunger, how mundane can you be? the inability to see greatness when it lies just in front of you is why that hunger will continue to pursue some people.

Again may God bless and keep the great men and women of our armed forces, more of these please.

Oversabi that ended up saying nothing... she should mind her bussiness full stop

Congratulations chidinma,may you become a unifying banner for Africans everywhere.Be a true queen and shine with grace and favour.

Congratulations to Nigerians,and every African that was passionate about this,thank you To nairalanders that supported this lady and taught everyone how to vote for her.Thank you to God wey no shame us

Let's find another worthy cause again and do this again whenever we are called upon.

Africans everywhere,behold your beauty queen.... Her Name is Chidinma Adetshina.

May God bless us all

8 pages,no south African in view, where are those trolls today, their mouths are shut... enemies have been silenced.. how about the disgrace of the Mandela family... he should do his press release again...

To all the Nigerians everywhere that voted for chidinma, may God bless you all,and all our children everywhere in the world.

There will be a next time for those that did not get to vote,do better next time.Lets always support each other like this against any global antagonist.

Common sense says majority of the videos would probably be AI, or they have a culture that accepts wives sharing, sleeping with 400 women and most married to high ranking officials on video... doesn't sound probable,

But then the gullible believe all things,critical thinkers would pause and wait to see where all this is going

Sharpsharp00123:
u are talking rubbish

Egusi n okro is cooked in virtually all homes n who limited egusi n efo to ekiti?

So u don't know people cook egusi n efo n even add bitter leaf?

U are just talking rubbish with confidence

Flagship soup is the culturally celebrated food or soup for that tribe, it's the okoho for the tiv, eko or pap for the ogbomoso, amala for the oyo etc, doesn't change the fact that even northerners like amala, do you understand now?

tuoyoojo:
Just imagine
A doctor who has the opportunity to japa decides to stay and Is over stretched at work. She prescribes medication which the hospital doesn't have and the next thing, she is being assaulted

There is something about power in Nigeria and this overwhelming urge to oppress the people one is meant to serve.

Last time na snail chopper when wear person slap, now this

It's the drs fault for not japaing, that's the kind of abuse they should expect as part of the work when working on Nigeria public hospitals

These should have been prevented by those arresting officials and people should be sacked for the leak

When one billionaire like that in Nigeria was been blackmailed by some 2 sisters with a video,our police seized their laptop and said they had many videos of prominent people on it, till today,none of it leaked.Thats professionalism and common sense

The women,their families and all involved are the victims in this matter,I hope it doesn't turn out to be AI generated truly at the end of the day,forensic experts should take a closer look

Seunmsg1:
I have reasons to doubt your statement that my fellow Yorubas told you that; because no Yoruba in his right senses will ever say that. Maybe it was one of your comrades who love masquerading as Yoruba that told you that. It's not Egusi. It's Egunsi. The etymology of the word was rightly provided but your bruised ego would not allow you to learn.

I think she probably heard it as the flagship soup for different Yoruba tribes,it's one of the flagship soups for the ondo,ekiti,and osun axis,like ewedu and gbegiri combination is to the oyo

This is quite interesting, and pointless.

Whoever likes egusi should eat it however they like.That said different Yoruba tribes historically prepared it differently, so it's strange to say it's not Yoruba food.


I think people need to understand the tribes of
the Yoruba people have a common language but have their unique cultural differences,from food,to clothes,to dance etc,so the fact that one knows about some Yorubas you met somewhere does not make it a finding that applies to all Yoruba tribes.e.g egusi and okro would not be one of the style for oyo,but has always been for yoruba in ondo town for ages

Egusi and efo for the ekiti. Egusi only for some other tribe etc. No one cap fits all.

Kobojunkie:
1. You buy the artificial scarcity argument claiming the scarcity is deliberate. To what end?

2. You also accept the report that says 90% of Nigerians are not banked. How come? People are obviously not banked because they do not trust Nigerian banks. And it isn't that the banks have done very much in the way of improving customer trust in them. Either, so why blame them for the problem?

Not the unranked report , the circulating dollars in country report.

SmartyPants:
You don't seem to get the question I asked. Listen again... How do you demystify a scarce resource?

Do I take it that your argument is that Nigeria's total dollar supply exceeds its total dollar demand? That's obviously false. Market realities clearly show the opposite.

Then you don't know Nigeria, the higher proportion of dollar in Nigeria is not even in the official system, and majority of Nigerians access dollar needs through these unofficial sources. That's where the problem is,it's artificial scarcity due to individuals deliberately hoarding available dollars sometimes to make the dollar rate go high. There's data by the way that says up to 90 percent of dollar in Nigeria is not in the bank... Can't confirm the exact percentage but I recall it was ridiculous

GloriousGbola:
South Africa has become the confam si unit of playa hating.

It should be SI unit of stupidity and bad belle. Plus it's like they don't they have enough sensible people that can speak up against all this nonsense in that country

SmartyPants:
How exactly does one go about demystifying access to a scarce resource?

Where do you buy dollars when you need it? That's the place to start... make it easy to get dollars.

Foreign remittances alone was more than our dollar demand in one quater in 2024

We need a chidinma appreciation page.... and anthem, at this rate she has become the mascot for a united black Africa across borders, someone,anyone, or silverbird give us that page.

Draconian policy here,this cannot be the way to go about this.

Think incentives,think high yielding dollar funds, think easy availability of dollars when wee need it, demystify access to the dollar in Nigeria and make things easy for people,that would be a good place to start.

A village somewhere in benue state found gold on their farms and a week later, armed bandits had taken over the village and everyone had to relocate in fear. There's a connection somewhere.

They don't have Sims easily available,that's another problem,wanted to patronize them for promoting local businesses their Sims were hard to find. This is so the know,would still like to add them to the Sim collection for internet providers

We need a song for chidinma for when she goes to miss universe,that song will hit a million views,someone should please produce it. A good song with lyrics like ,we will survive and thrive , we will lift the nations up kind of song for all immigrants everywhere.

Like that dare art alade song," na my life I dey live"...