Nigerian girls have turned social media apps designed for connecting with new people and staying in touch friends, family and acquaintances to a hub for digital prostitution. When Zuckerberg designed Facebook or when Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger built Instagram from a co-working space in San Francisco, when Sean Rad invented Tinder or when the trio of Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown created Snapchat, they probably didn’t envisage that their apps would become platforms for prostitutes to advertise their goods and services in Nigeria.

People who return to Nigeria for holidays are often shocked when they discover that they can’t get dates or meet decent people to start friendships with on Nigerian Tinder. A huge percentage of the girls you’d see there are for “strictly hookups or massage with happy ending” as some boldly indicate on their bio’s. It’s really embarrassing! According to them, when you meet a girl/guy on Tinder overseas, it’s never for sex, it can lead to sex but you’re very sure you matched with a person with a job/profession who genuinely wants to meet new people, make new friends or go out on dates. There are different apps/websites strictly for meeting with prostitutes.

According to Britannica, sex has always been one of the few pleasures of the poor and oppressed. Nigeria is the poverty capital of the world. Do the math! While sex is part of normal human behavior, prostitution on the other hand is frowned on morally and legally in Nigeria and has now evolved from the road side and brothels to social media apps. An unofficial survey revealed that the Transportation Network Industry in Lagos and Abuja (Uber and Taxify) generates 80% of it revenue from 8pm to 6am (with numerous instances where these females offer sex acts to drivers as payment for their ride fares #sexforrides).

It is left up to you to determine whether you support their lifestyle and professional choices or not. What should be a cause for concern is that the money these girls make from digital prostitution is tax-free. Our government is broke! Looking for loans here and there while we have millions of young females raking in an average of 200,000 Naira on a monthly basis tax free (using Lagos State and Abuja as our reference points) with an average income of 20,000 Naira per night.

In more developed countries you are obligated by law to pay your personal income tax regardless of your occupation. Businesses regardless of size and revenue across the country pay taxes, why shouldn’t these people pay taxes too? They can be classified as business owners because there is a monetary payment in exchange for a service(s) in multiple transactions. The sex-tax would be difficult to enforce because prostitution is illegal in Nigeria and social media space is simply uncontrollable. However, if the government is willing to generate more internal generated revenue this would be a gold mine! In the words of Nelson Mandela, “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

Sadly, in Nigeria governance and religious doctrines go hand in hand! Nigerians are not objective with issues such as this, they are extremely sentimental. Too many revenue streams are ignored because of religious morality and laws fueled by religious morality. Nigeria might be the capital of hypocrisy in the world.

Fegor Okonedo
IG/Twitter: @fegurgreen

You want the prostitutes taxed while the taxes are embezzled by a group of people in government.

In the western world ,where you're obligated to pay tax ,you are sure of having good roads, constant electricity, good health services, modern technology etc and also unemployment rate is below minimum.

In the Northern part of Nigeria where prostitution and alcohol are frowned at , they still enjoy the taxes too.

People who drive Uber and Taxify will tell you that their biggest clients and income come from prostitution, it's the oldest profession in the world.

People dey fck no be small including those who head Hisbah that normally raid brothels and even arrested a policeman in Kano.
Where do you think the high rate of almajiri in the North come from? A research has shown that locations in the North with Trailer Packs has a very high population of almajiri as a result of unchecked prostitution and patronage by commercial drivers, that's the hypocrisy of very religious northern Nigeria. Other parts of Nigeria don't pretend too much

A high Court judge has now ordered that it's illegal to arrest women for prostituting and now it seems that this Govt which is taxing everything in Nigeria wants to add prostitution tax

INMESSAGE Nko and Badoo, it is useless taxing prostitutes since the law prohibits prostituition

In a country that lacks entertainment like amusement parks, Malls , Resorts, Arcrade/Game centers , Casino, FootBall league and Sporting activities etc... when people want to catch fun they do so by drinking or having sex, and for some people prostituites are their only option at seeing a Vagina

the most shamefull part is that girls on Inmessage are educated most are even graduates and regular girls we see on social media preaching and forming holy

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Oga OP point of corrections, Tinder is not an app where you connect with family and close friends, it's a hook up app.

It's so annoying how some Nigerian girls will be on Tinder and write on their Profile that they're not here for HOOKUP, aunty wey mumu, Tinder is not where you find husband.

It's an app where men come to negotiate with girls for sex period. You're mad if you want to get husband from Tinder.

look at you, you don't know anything.

You people want to put sand in there garri now abi? How is what they do with there bodies your business?

Before you ask them for any PIT (Personal Income Tax), what has your country done for them?

If you took care of them or gave them jobs, why would any normal human being want to sell her body for money?

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Lol. Yeye dey smell. Awon blogger blogger! You call them business owners abi. Puscy business owners. Right? Na you put the Puscy there for them abi. They should tax them of their hard banging while some politicians will embezzle the sweat of their hard banging.

Codedruns and in message still de oi

In message is better than them all, you will stay in your and order babe like Konga and they will give you pu**y on home delivery, no more ashawo house everything is now coded, when I am konjified, i like to request for babe in the morning so neighbors won't suspect anything

So what is the way out?

This is 2020.
We need solutions.

BTW, the girls in question are "Self-employed" with no government resources whatsoever.

Hence, their REVENUE is not TAXABLE.

If the government were responsible, some of the girls won't be on that track.

VirginSearcher:
Hmm! is their Tinder in Nigeria? I don't think any other country is as sexually promiscuous as Nigeria.. Tufiakwa!

In how many countries have you lived or read thoroughly about


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Wat of Badoo

Very useless post

Tinder is a joke compared to InMessage

It's a global menace.

Instagram!

The success of some people have been changed to negativity ,what an absurd indeed.

Most e-business dont pay tax.. Its everywhere

Btw, can't person pay as you go jejeli instead of having headacheing gf's.. After all, Olosho do get serious relationships too...

We Nigerians know how to abuse opportunities primarily designed to solve a problem by using them to achieve selfish ambition. For instance, Facebook which was designed to connect people is now used to connect people to prostitutes. And because of this, online fraudsters and impostors have been reaping so much from it by impersonating well known models.

Billion dollar you say

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The idiotic writer is only interested in generating income through tax for this useless government. What have they done with all the revenue plus loans they have been raking in?
Idiot

If they'd start taxing porn industry in Nigeria, religious organizations should be taxed too.

Which one is tinder again? We have not finished with the ones we have this OP wants to create unnecessary awareness for tinder.

You want to tax bitches, which means price increase for the fucker.
A man pay tax on his salary, bank transactions, services, beer, foods, transportation, additional PAYE etc yet you want to tax him for fucking stupid ass bitches to cool off?!

Which kind evil government be this?

SMH

You better leave those prostitutes. It's not easy down here. Prostitution is a lesser societal problem compared to arm robbery. We should discuss the fundamental problems of this country and first place this country on the right track. When we thrive better in economic terms, then we can think of taxing prostitutes to decongest their trade, refocusing their energy in productive legitimate trades.

Very beautiful nonsense. You cant tax something the law frowns at. No moral society can tax prostitution. It is like you laughing at yourself for being silly. The Nigerian constitution is very clear on prostitution. How can you think of taxing it because it is thriving? Our government is lazy and is simply looking for easy ways to raise money. Why not tax the companies that make the app itself just as France is planning to tax Facebook and Google?

Thanks to prostitutes different pussy 4 just chikinni money.instead mk 1 yeye Jessica will bill u tire b4 u see.u will solve both her emotional, mental nd physical problems

anonimi:


In how many countries have you lived or read thoroughly about


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As many as you could think of