BRICS: Nigeria's State Advocate urged the government to make foreign countries pay in local currency Naira for oil and not the US dollar.
  • bamboo@lemm.ee
    10·
    9 months ago

    It’ll be interesting to see if the US does anything besides throw a tantrum. Just over a decade ago, selling oil in non-US dollars was enough to be declared a brutal dictatorship and be bombed to rubble by NATO.

    • pan_troglodytes@programming.dev
      English
      11·
      9 months ago

      could still play out that way - but Nigeria isnt the most stable place, a hard shove or two would easily topple their house of cards