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Friday, April 22, 2011

Sanusi Named One Of 100 Most Influential Persons By TIME

Nigeria’s Central Bank Governor Lamido Sanusi has been named as one of the world’s most influential persons for 2011 according to TIME magazine in its yearly ranking of influential persons worldwide from a pool of artists and activists, reformers and researchers, heads of state and captains of industry.
Also in the 2011 TIME 100 list are US President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Kim Clijsters, Prince William and Kate Middleton, Korean pop sensation Rain and a host of other persons.
In a brief note on Sanusi, TIME said; “The story of Nigeria's first half-century of Independence is a tale of wasted potential: sub-Saharan Africa's most populous country, home to its biggest oil riches, impoverished by thieving autocrats. A key reason a new Nigeria no longer seems fanciful is Central Bank governor Lamido Sanusi.
“A veteran of an often corrupt banking industry, Sanusi, 49, took up his position at the height of the financial crisis in June 2009 and immediately turned on his former peers. He took over nine banks, sacked the chief executives of eight of them, ordered a series of mergers and named their biggest debtors.
“He was, he said, cleaning up not just banking but all Nigeria. Sanusi's will be a long fight and a dangerous one: death threats have obliged him to employ armed guards. But it is also essential for Africa's sleeping giant to finally awaken.”
The full List of TIME 100
• Wael Ghonim
• Joseph Stiglitz
• Reed Hastings
• Amy Poehler
• Geoffrey Canada
• Mark Zuckerberg
• Peter Vesterbacka
• Angela Merkel
• Julian Assange
• Ron Bruder
• Lamido Sanusi
• Colin Firth
• Amy Chua
• Joe Biden
• Jennifer Egan
• Kim Clijsters
• Ahmed Shuja Pasha
• Aung San Suu Kyi
• Cory Booker
• Gabrielle Giffords
• Katsunobu Sakurai
• Michelle Obama
• Paul Ryan
• Ai Weiwei
• Rob Bell
• Fathi Terbil
• Dilma Rousseff
• Tom Ford
• Liang Guanglie
• Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
• Takeshi Kanno
• Nicolas Sarkozy
• Michele Bachmann
• Saad Mohseni
• Chris Christie
• Matthew Weiner
• Lisa Jackson
• Jean-Claude Trichet
• Justin Bieber
• Prince William and Kate Middleton
• Joe Scarborough
• Blake Lively
• Hillary Clinton
• Muqtada al-Sadr
• Anwar al-Awlaki
• Kim Jong Un
• Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
• Hassan Nasrallah
• Nathan Wolfe
• Oprah Winfrey
• Sergio Marchionne
• Mahendra Singh Dhoni
• Felisa Wolfe-Simon
• Esther Duflo
• Rain
• Larry Page
• Mia Wasikowska
• David Cameron
• John Lasseter
• Maria Bashir
• Mukesh Ambani
• Chris Colfer
• Major General Margaret Woodward
• Bruno Mars
• David and Charles Koch
• Hung Huang
• General David Petraeus
• Matt Damon and Gary White
• Cecile Richards
• George R.R. Martin
• Marine Le Pen
• Grant Achatz
• Feisal Abdul Rauf
• El Général
• Jamie Dimon
• Heidi Murkoff
• Sting
• Jonathan Franzen
• V.S. Ramachandran
• Michelle Rhee
• Mark Wahlberg
• Rebecca Eaton
• Xi Jinping
• Kathy Giusti
• Arianna Huffington
• Barack Obama
• Lionel Messi
• Azim Premji
• Aruna Roy
• Ray Chambers
• Scott Rudin
• John Boehner
• Derrick Rossi
• Hu Shuli
• Benjamin Netanyahu
• Ayman Mohyeldin
• Charles Chao
• Bineta Diop
• Dharma Master Cheng Yen
• Patti Smith

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