Nigeria in 2010, the Jubilee Year!
The New Year, 2010 started on a wrong foot. For what has become a way of life, many Nigerians entered the New Year in darkness. The 6000MW of electricity promised failed to materialize. Long queues at the petrol stations were carried over on to the New Year as rumors of increase in the pump price of petrol became rife. Shortly before the year 2009 ended, a new helmsman was announced as the Governor of the Nigerian Central Bank. His name is Mallam Lamido Sanusi. He introduced some radical reforms that witnessed the exit of several bank chiefs. The restructuring that followed in the commercial banks was met with massive sack of workers by banks. As if the pains mete out to families as a result of power outages, scarcity of petroleum products and retrenchment of workers were not enough, the nation was slapped with a label as a ‘country of interest’ by the US as a result of a botched attempt by citizen AbdulMutallab to bomb a US bound plane. This put the nation’s rebranding project in cris...
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