Those taken in april can be sold across the border for amounts ranging from 4,000 to 50,000. While foreigners can fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom. Our own Business Correspondent zain asher knows well having attended school in nigeria. Our globe economic analyst is in nigeria for the World Economic conference on this week. A conference once meant to shine a light on nigerias emerging economy, now making quite a different impressions. Zain, start with you. Nigeria is now africas largest economy having overtaken south africa, fueled by the export of natural resources, like crude oil. With 37. 1 billion barrels of proven crude reserves, a top opec producer, how does boko haram effect this growing economy . Christine, listen, the cost of security, the cost of rebuilding is the give lent of 2 of the countrys economic. Talk about the economy in Northern Nigeria where a lot of this is going on. Completely crippled by this. Factories and Stores Closing down. People not going to
As we look. Is anyone missing anything at this point . Reporter good morning. The feeling on the Nigerian Government, they did everything they could to pull off on every lead and pursue those who took the girls from the school in eastern nigeria. Listen, theyre under intense scrutiny especially when the amnesty natural report has come out of advance warning, something the Nigerian Government strongly denies. Cnn has been covering the story from the very beginning and has spoken to local residents in the area and as well as the local senator and they are painting the same picture. The same picture of missteps saying there was a response that was lacking in urgency and that was not robust enough and that the Nigerian Military personnel got advance warning. And president jonathan was the first to defend the response to the attack. Listen to what he had to say. They started work immediately. Responded immediately. Someone gives the impression response was slow that is not true. That is not
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