Nigeria, Dec. 19 -- Last week, Nigeria gave up its proud history of assertiveness and independence in the international system by signing off our tax data sovereignty to a foreign power. The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) signed an MoU with the French Direction Generale des Finances Publiques (DGFiP) to exercise technical oversight over our tax data. We live in interesting times, when an elected government would hand over our sovereignty without even flinching. There is no basis for such behaviour and we should know better. We know from experience that when INEC decided to drop foreign technical expertise and use local know-how in 2010-2011, the integrity of our voters' list developed remarkably and we no longer suffered the indign...