With a population size said to be about 167 million people, Nigeria is aiming to rank among the top twenty economies in the world by the year 2020. Though quite a number of economic growth has been recorded in 2012 especially in terms of Gross Domestic product (GDP), Dr. Doyin Salami of the Lagos Business School highlights some of the factors that see Nigeria rise in the next eight years from a Frontier to an Emerging Market at the 2012 FBN Capital Investor Conference