Grace Aleye

Humanitarian | Public Health & Development Communications Specialist. I support #WomenInPolitics, #GirlChildEducation #MyBoldSteps | #MarvelComics Diehard Fan

[Grace Aleye @GraceYaks]

#Venom is hands down the best #MarvelComics movie I've watched!

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

We may be the last generation able to set the terms on which humanity and machines coexist.

If AI is to be powerful, it must be governed.
If AI is to be trusted, those who build it must be accountable.
If AI is to be global, it must be fair.
And if AI is to serve the future, it must not consume the future.

Let’s build a future of AI by humanity, with humanity, for all humanity.

[Grace Aleye @GraceYaks]

@investbamboo I've never seen an investment app with a more unresponsive customer service. You guys are fond of sending a million emails but to respond to direct customer complaints, is a problem.

[Grace Aleye @GraceYaks]

@phillipwalu @nanakosuaglobal Because they decide where most of the research funding goes to

[Grace Aleye @GraceYaks]

@forallcurious Yea right

[Grace Aleye @GraceYaks]

@JumiaNigeria This your number isn't going through o. And by the way, did you people cancel doorstep delivery. I can only see pickup station when I try to close

[Nojeem ‘Nudge’ Yusuf @NudgeTM]

AI writes well because people have been writing well for so long.

AI tools are trained on actual writings by real people. To now assume every good piece of writing is enabled by AI is so unfair to those who have crafted the art well before AI.

[Grace Aleye @GraceYaks]

@ExtroLeO @ms0nigghaz I agree

[Aje | the Gohighlevel Guy @Aje_Dynamicz]

Every fintech doesn't have to revolve or be about Finance 🤧

We desperately need an app that can connect Landlords to Tenants directly 🙂

[Grace Aleye @GraceYaks]

@TheoAbuAgada Even in secondary school, my boarding house had a siesta time for napping, we loved it.

[Grace Aleye @GraceYaks]

@Big_Rossie_ You say? You mean the team that bribed the referee won

[Oloye. @Ol0ye]

I want my tax Naira to be tied directly to a project I can monitor on my phone.

"Hi Oluniyi, you paid N5m in tax. We collected such and such from so and so other people.

The cost of this project is N1Bn.

Here's the agreement with the contractor. Here's the bidding process documentation.
Here's the progress report of the project.
Here's how it benefits society

You can request an FOI if you ever need to verify any of these things.

Thank you for contributing to the progress of Nigeria."

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Nigeria is walking into a one-chance that will shock generations.

FIRS just signed an MoU with France’s DGFiP to “modernise tax administration”, “data-driven enforcement”, “information exchange”, and “capacity building”.

If you like believe sweet grammar.
Translation: Nigeria has opened the engine room of its tax system to France.

Who is advising these people?

Let’s be clear. France is not an innocent actor in Africa. France is the most aggressive economic-intelligence power in West Africa.

They hold CFA countries by the throat.
They control currency reserves.
They shape customs rules.
They monitor financial flows from Dakar to N’Djamena.
They embed “advisers” inside governments.

France does not play.

Without Africa, France would be a mid-tier country nobody sends.

Once France enters your revenue backend, they can read your entire economy like a Bible:
– Who pays tax
– Who evades
– Which sectors are weak
– Which sectors are profitable
– Where money comes from
– Where money goes
– Where wealth lives
– Where political networks hide

That is not “capacity building”.
That is POWER.

And Nigeria handed it over like a Valentine gift.

Instead of building sovereign capacity, we are outsourcing our fiscal brain to a foreign power that survives by controlling African economies.

Even Francophone countries are fighting to escape France’s grip.
Nigeria is rushing into it by itself. Incredible.

France didn’t build wealth with chains alone.
They used African tax, labour, rubber, gold, cash crops, and minerals.

Today, the chains are called:
“MoUs”
“Digital transformation”
“BEPS frameworks”
“Cross-border cooperation”

Same script. New costume.

Now imagine this as Nigeria transitions from FIRS to Nigeria Revenue Service in 2026 with foreign fingerprints already on the backend, algorithms, enforcement logic, data pipelines, and compliance structure.

Who do you fight tomorrow when your tax DNA is exposed?

Does the US give IRS backend to Mexico?
Does the UK hand HMRC to Pakistan?
Does India give its tax system to China?
Does France give Algeria its revenue architecture?

Never.

But Nigeria keeps behaving like a giant that signs away sovereignty for photo-ops.

Nigerians, your future is being auctioned in broad daylight.
Line by line.
Signature by signature.
Document by document.

“Our dear native land” is no longer poetry.
It is slipping away quietly.

Clap if you like.
Play tribal politics if you like.

But hear this truth:
Once a foreign power holds your tax system, your independence is finished.

No guns needed. Just MoUs.

Every sensible Nigerian must speak with one voice.

Not today.
Not tomorrow.
Not ever.

[Ayo FBI @PureMinD__]

An American visa application fee costs between $190 and $250 depending on the visa type which equals 285,000 and 375,000 Nigerian Naira respectively.

In 2024 alone, 2,497,104 visa application were refused out of 8,995,108 applications.

Benchmarking the visa application fee at an average of $220, what that simply means is that a whopping sum of $549,362,880 million dollars was injected into the US economy for a service they did not actually render.

*NB* I have nothing against the US, they are just the closest example I could use because of dollar dominance, my view applies to all countries in this boat.

That said, I strongly am a fan of this speaker’s evangelism. Visa fees should be refunded when applications are refused. I mean, people pray, fast, have sleepless nights of practicing how to answer these questions only the end up being refused visa (and for some, no reason at all). If you won’t give them the visa, the least decent thing you should do is give them back their money.

It’s just the right thing to do!

Abi, what do you guys think?

[Grace Aleye @GraceYaks]

@MobilePunch God forbid!

[Grace Aleye @GraceYaks]

@PlusizeGoddess I agree

[Grace Aleye @GraceYaks]

@yabaleftonline So, Oga how do you intend to spend all the taxes you're now collecting? How will it benefit us? They never say, just we'll collect tax, tax and more tax

[UNHCR Nigeria @unhcrnigeria]

📢 Job Opportunities at UNHCR in 🇳🇬
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#Jobs #Nigeria #Refugees

[Nigeria Health Watch @nighealthwatch]

1 in 3 Nigerian children is stunted, not from lack of food, but hidden hunger caused by micronutrient deficiencies.

In this #NHWPost, @chris__II & Favour Solomon unpack our recent Nutrition Roundtable where stakeholders pushed for stronger fortification, MSME support & demand creation.

Read: https://t.co/3AAawCjzOe
#FundNutrition

[Grace Aleye @GraceYaks]

@NeonAdejo AMEN

[Grace Aleye @GraceYaks]

@UkpabiCJN @skinnyniggr The worst spaghetti I've ever eaten in my life