By Luck Gold & Samuel Burke, CNN
While American waited 35 minutes for the
Super Bowl’s lights to come on, Nigerians
just chuckled.
They know all too well the problem of
power outages: Nigeria has been plagued
by rolling blackouts that last hours,
sometimes even days.
So as the television audience worldwide
waited for the power to come back on,
Nigerians took to social media with wit.
“Power outage at the Super Bowl on
Sunday. Suddenly, Nigeria doesn’t look as
dark anymore,” tweeted one Nigerian.
“If they had the Super Bowl in Nigeria, the
power coming back on would be the real
surprise,” another tweeted.
Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan,
recently told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour
that his country’s electrical woes have been
improving.
“That is one area that Nigerians are quite
pleased with the government, that
commitment to improve power. It’s
working,” President Jonathan told the
president.
Many Nigerian viewers tweeted messages to
Christiane Amanpour to express their
continued frustrations about having to rely
on back-up generators for power.
In the video above, you can watch an
“Open Mic ” series CNN conducted after
Amanpour’s interview with President
Jonathan. We left a microphone in a public
place and recorded Nigerians expressing
their frustrations with their notoriously
unreliable power supply.

http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/04/what-nigeria-and-the-super-bowl-have-in-common/

lol! I even saw a tweet that said this is PHCN's year of international invasion.