نيجيريا: إجراءات اقتصادية لجذب الاستثمار الإسلامي

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تقوم الحكومة النيجيرية في الوقت الراهن بالعمل على تعزيز الاقتصاد الإسلامي الواعد، من خلال حُزمة من الإجراءات السياسية والاقتصادية، وخاصةً مع اعتبار "نيجيريا" محورًا للمعاملات المالية الإسلامية في غرب إفريقيا، وفي ظل إعراض قطاع واسع من المسلمين عن التعامل مع البنوك لعدم توفُّر المعاملات المصرفية الشرعية.

وقد أكد المصرفيون الإسلاميون في "نيجيريا" أن توفير المنتجات والمعاملات الإسلامية من شأنه أن يَجذب الأفراد والمستثمرين، وتحديدًا مع اتساع نطاق الصكوك المشروعة، وإنشاء المؤسسات المصرفية الإسلامية؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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The Islamic Investor: Profit from Nigeria’s World Class Sharia Listed Companies

Nigeria is experiencing challenging times through a combination of economic and political headwinds. The collapsing price of its main export – oil, a devalued currency – the Naira being a victim of the surging US dollar, delayed general elections and civil strife in the north of the country represent a combination of problems, which has resulted in the Nigerian Stock Exchange Lotus Islamic Index experiencing a 35% drop from its peak set last year.

Components of the Nigerian Stock Exchange Lotus Islamic Index represent 15 of the leading Sharia certified stocks in the country including Nigerian centric world class blue-chip companies such as Unilever, Nestle, GlaxoSmithKline and Cadbury who not only serve Nigeria’s 170 million population, but the wider West African region.

Financial inclusion is a common theme in Africa and according to a Gallup poll conducted in 2011, 22.8% of Muslim Djiboutians who do not have a bank account have cited religious reasons. As Islamic financial services become available to such people, the size of the sector is set to increase causing a ripple effect into Islamic investment products.

Lotus Capital is the leading Islamic Asset Manager in Nigeria having launched in 2004. Its CEO, Hajara Adeola stated growth within the sector will come from large swaths of population who remain outside of the conventional financial system, who when they begin using Sharia compatible products will lead to increased volume and market size of the Islamic finance sector.

Nigeria is the financial and economic centre of West Africa with a population of 173 million and a GDP of $521.8 billion in 2013. It has an emerging Islamic finance sector, with a State level Sukuk issued by the Ogun State in late 2013, as well as the fully fledged Islamic Jaiz Bank launched in 2003.