It is 10 years since the idea of the BRIC nations of Brazil, Russia, India and China came into being, and this year they added a new member - South Africa - to the group.

With an African country now part of this economically significant group, BBC World Service's Business Daily programme brought together the finance ministers from two of the biggest players on the African continent.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is Nigeria's finance minister and Pravin Gordhan, is South Africa's finance minister. Ed Butler first asked Pravin Gordhan how important he thought the development of the BRICS group was.

Full transcript below
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16096031

Thumbs up to Ngozi, arguably the only shining star in Jonathan's Cabinet. As a multinational company, if you want presence in Africa and you're not in Nigeria yet, theoretically you can't be at full potential.

Madam NOI said:

And I think that when we take care of several of the constraints that is holding our economy back, for instance we have constraints on power which is holding our industry back. When we solve those problems, we are going to be in the low double digits and that will parachute Nigeria into the BRICS.

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That is the Koko of the matter.

I'll just add that 100 Zillion megawatts of Electricity will not solve our Fundamental problems. We have to solve those alongside the obvious economic issues we have.

Dr. Iweala has spoken well

This will be good for investors. But we need leaders who can be in the world wide light. Can GEJ be that man?