Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun has concluded her trip to the UK where she met bond investors in a bid to pitch Nigeria’s planned bond offering. At the meeting we had reported that investors had queried her more on the need for the government to eliminate the capital controls currently in place before they can consider investing in Nigeria again.
Her visits seems to have went well going by some tweets we have seen from people who attended the events. Here are some of the top tweets we were able to filter;
Nigeria's finance minister #Adeosun has won some respect from London investors on this roadshow https://t.co/ZyziJRdEbY
— Charlie Robertson (@RencapMan) June 8, 2016
In London right now and have received positive feedback on this roadshow, particularly on KA's performance https://t.co/0phpNLBNAM
— Andrew Alli (@afalli) June 9, 2016
She was told to be realistic and go back to cut her budget. That was a technical knock-out. She has already said the Capital budget will be cut by almost half (less than 45 days after passing it). What success is that in such a strategic and sensitive outing?