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The flags used to be very noticeable in Brussels, at the EU headquarters. But the UK has gone and all the flags were brought down. According to the UK Treasury chief Rishi Sunak, the “health emergency is not yet over and our economic emergency has only just begun…largest fall in output for more than 300 years.” In other words, the UK could experience the largest recession in over 300 years! No other country in continental Europe is going through this severe redesign.

Sure, what concerns me with the United Kingdom. My concern is a lesson for Nigeria. More than anytime in human history, there is strength in coming together. Business is nothing but perception; if you are too small, people do not pay much attention. Unlike in the past, if the UK Prime Minister speaks today, you know his only arsenal is the UK. Previously, he could get the EU to hammer you. Simply, his impact has diminished.

As the UK discusses sanctions on Nigeria over the trampling of ENDSARS protesters, few in Abuja have cared. But if the EU is doing that, Nigeria would send emissaries to abort any sanction. In the past, everyone would have thought: if the UK does it, it could influence the EU to follow through. With the UK out of the EU, that risk was gone. London, you can sanction Nigeria, but that should not be a killer!

Nigerians, let us not go alone. We can reform our economic architecture but staying as one country should not be debatable. An Arewa Republic, Biafra Republic and Oduduwa Republic would be inconsequential at the global arena. Those republics can stay as one country under new economic frameworks that deepen our competitive and comparative advantages. At the end, Team Nigeria wins and thrives. 

Today, I shared a roadmap on how that new Nigeria can evolve: abolish “state of origin” and replace it with “state of residence”.

One Policy That Will Change Nigeria For Good – Abolish “State of Origin” for “State of Residence”

Red shorts for all those shorters in the Jumia world. I do think most are coming clean. And in Lagos, I hope Jumia has ordered a drum of zobo for staff and associates. Where is Interswitch? Where is Andela? And my favorite Flutterwave? This is my position: Africa is one of the few places you can find parabolic growth in traditional sectors. Those that lead therein will win big monetary trophies. Jumia is having a moment.

Jumia Technologies is an African e-commerce company that covers a population of 600 million people. A November presentation laid out the company’s turnaround efforts and plans for future growth that are summarized below.

Jumia E-commerce: Jumia has 6.7 million annual active customers and had over 28 million orders placed through its platform over the last year.

Jumia’s third-party sellers cover 90% of the platform items with 110,000 active sellers part of the Jumia ecosystem.

Seventy-eight percent of African online customers bought on Jumia in the last 12 months and 88% of that total made additional purchases in the same period.

JumiaPay: One of the key assets for Jumia could be its JumiaPay fintech platform, as about 34% of the company’s transactions are completed via JumiaPay.

We saw the tweet: “Executive Chairman, FIRS, Muhammad Mamman  Nami says the agency has raked in ?4.178T revenue out of d ?4.239T target it set for itself -News. Meanwhile, @MBuhari exempted those on minimum wages & those who run small businesses from paying tax That’s more money in their pockets”.

Executive Chairman, FIRS, Muhammad Mamman  Nami says the agency has raked in ?4.178T revenue out of d ?4.239T target it set for itself -News

Meanwhile, @MBuhari exempted those on minimum wages & those who run small businesses from paying tax
That's more money in their pockets pic.twitter.com/2HtW5bTkEr

— Lauretta Onochie (@Laurestar) November 24, 2020

Largely, many would think that the FIRS has over-executed, hitting close to 99% of its target. I do not buy it because anyone could set his or her target and hit it. In 2018, FIRS collected N5. 320 trillion., well ahead of anything they are achieving in 2020, and in that year, they set a goal of hitting N8 trillion for 2019. So, celebrating N4.2 trillion so far in 2020 does not mean that FIRS has been magical.

The Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, re-wrote Nigeria’s collection history in 2018, when it announced today, that it has collected a total of N5. 320 trillion.

Tunde Fowler, Executive Chairman, FIRS, who made the announcement in Lagos today at a retreat: “Parliamentary Support for Effective Taxation of the Digital Economy” said it is targeting N8 trillion for 2019.

The N5.320 trillion collection is the highest revenue ever generated by FIRS in history. The highest in FIRS was N5.07 trillion generated in 2012.

Sure, I do not know when this target was set. But I do think it ought to be done before January 2020, and if that is the case, why was it so low to start with? In 2019, they were bold even though they can short: “The total revenue of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) for the 2019 fiscal year fell below target, as a total of N5 trillion was generated against its N8 trillion target for the year”. Why set a target of N4.23 trillion for 2020 , possibly before the pandemic hit, when in 2019, you hit N5 trillion?

The government should not be celebrating the 99% achievement as it does not tell the whole story despite the pandemic. And that means when they hit the 100% by Dec 31 2020, we need to put all in context.