The reported death of Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Boko Haram insurgency, is making foreign investors look favourably towards investing in Nigeria.

Such investors are said to be frustrated by the low level of profit they are currently making from the BRIC nations of Brazil, India, Russia and China, authoritative US journal, Forbes, has reported.

The report, published in Forbes, yesterday, said success in cracking down on security threats in the Niger Delta is also changing the security situation for the better.

And while terrorist disruption recedes, money keeps flowing into Nigeria.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/shekaus-death-excites-bric-investors/

The original Forbes report:

With even Goldman Sachs turning cold on the core emerging markets basket of Brazil, India, Russia and China, investors are combing the world looking for a place to put their money to work. For this new generation of adventurers, the goal is to be on the ground in the right new market before it becomes the core — and Nigeria just started flashing all the signals.

For years, the country – the biggest and most dynamic frontier economy in Africa, with a GDP on par with global capital destinations like Hong Kong and Singapore – had a Wild West reputation for both rambunctious growth and a little danger. But while the entrepreneurial energy of Lagos still reminds fund managers of Houston multiplied by four times the population, success in cracking down on security threats in the oil-rich interior is changing the security situation for the better.

Monday’s reports that government forces may have killed Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Boko Haram insurgency, mean the rewards here may now substantially outweigh the risks. As Nigerian Senate President David Mark told me, security is a critical factor for the current administration and extremist groups like Boko Haram have already been pushed to the country’s borders.

However, many investors still have an outdated conception of Nigeria as a dangerous market engulfed by unrest and corruption, and so stocks in Lagos still trade at something of a distress discount to reflect the country’s past – and create an opportunity for investors willing to understand what the Nigeria of today is really all about.

Massive growth, dramatic value

http://www.forbes.com/sites/hilarykramer/2013/08/21/nigeria-beckons-investors-fleeing-the-bric/

Which kind yeye assumption be ds now?
Raging kidnapping series up east is even making us loose more investments!

Do u think that is different from 'insecurity'?

So, because boko uses bomb, na only them dey contribute to insecurities wey dey scare investors?

U better face and squash all threats!

U dey pay asari, dey pardon alams, dey condone corruption, u come dey shift blames to north! What abt those who turn kidnapping of foreign investors to business?

Una no well altogether!

Ís he really dead?. All i keep reading is might hav been dead, maybe dead, reported dead etc.

This is a news to celebrate

Global capitalist are happy? word? just come and invest, employ Nigerians and pay your bloody taxes.

Uh uh

And I kept asking myself what those demons (bokoharam) really want/wanted.

It's good thing to know that things are turning around for good.

Now that is good news

Mtcheeew... #drinking garri flakes

hmmmm.. Na true say shit dy smell?

absolutely rubish, shakau will be sitting in a bush sorounded by 12virgins and laughing at nigerian government fooling us about his death... trash

Shiit happens

martin1772: Ís he really dead?. All i keep reading is might hav been dead, maybe dead, reported dead etc.

confused nation, we go here say him wake up 4rm death, say devil tell am make him come preach d word of God

They just want us to believe he's dead..now we believe..what else?..the power of media..no evidence though.

Waitin for comfirmation from the SSS

Bros, thank you

SLIDiE: Which kind yeye assumption be ds now?
Raging kidnapping series up east is even making us loose more investments!

Do u think that is different from 'insecurity'?

So, because boko uses bomb, na only them dey contribute to insecurities wey dey scare investors?

U better face and squash all threats!

U dey pay asari, dey pardon alams, dey condone corruption, u come dey shift blames to north! What abt those who turn kidnapping of foreign investors to business?

Una no well altogether!

sheyie2007: Mtcheeew... #drinking garri flakes

hw much b cup of garri now?

Forbes just marketed Nigeria to the world• This is really great for us

U tin we ar fools ne jare
Show us d body if he's death

Eze Promoe: Nigeria is growing to become one of the world's superpower

Keep dreaming on don't wake up.

Why are the so called leaders playing with our collective sensibilities? They try to gain cheap political popularity on everything. Meanwhile, his death have not been confirmed.
We all know that corruption supervised by our government is the major cause of low investment in Nigeria.
Small and medium scale enterprises have all died down because of low or absent of infrastructures development largely due to corruption.
Create the enabling environment for the local entrepreneurs and then the foreign investors will come.

if he isn't dead, then this fake news is deadly.
We not only wish shekau dead we wish boko haram dead!

Eze Promoe: Nigeria is growing to become one of the world's superpower

thats wen i or a fellow nairalander take over the 3arms of govt

I'm scared. If he is still alive then we should expect something big. We need a proof that he is dead and not mere speculations

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