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.

OAM4J:

Seun, thread exists already: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-651879.0.html

dasa:

when the west want something, they give you a you a gift.

They are trying to get him to devalue the naira. he said ts wrong to do that and he is right, this na just bribe.

Knight1:

11th ke?
where will they now put his boss? Saraki?
or Odili? or Tinubu sef?

violent:

This is just a crappy hogwash compiled by an editor who is oblivious of the meaning to the word "Influential".

Sanusi is an achiever, YES!. . . . . influential? yes, but not very!

Justin Bieber, who occupies a 35th position on the list is arguably more influential that Sanusi, . . .Sanusi occupies an office which provides him with powers to make economical decisions, just like any other CBN governor across the globe. . .Justin Beiber on the other hand could have more than a million teenage girls eating uncooked beans for breakfast if all he did was mention through his facebook or twitter page that he loved eating uncooked beans for breakfast.

Surprisingly too, the editor placed William and Kate Middleton on 36th. . . .seriously? If kate Middleton wore a dress she bought at a high street shop to an occasion, before nightfall of that day, the store is most likely to run out of stock, and it doesn't matter just how expensive the dress was, now that's what i call influential.

sir-p2007:

he truly deserves it,cos the fear of sanusi in d banking industry is d beginning of wisdom

Tunsbobo:

congrats to sanusi

shilling:

Congrats to him, very well deserved!!

What a coincidence, we had a discussion about him in my Economics class today!!

manchy7531:

I THINK SANUSI AND BABATUNDE RAJI FASHOLA [/b]WILL BE A VERY GOOD IDEA FOR 2015, WE JUST HAVE TO GROOM [b]SANUSI AND ALSO, AS POWER WILL MOST LIKELY GO TO THE NORTH BY 2015 TO COMPENSATE THEM, WE HAVE TO GET THE BEST FROM THERE COMBINED WITH THE BEST HERE,, SO AS TO BRING OUT THE BEST OF NIGERIA, I THINK ITS HIGH TIME WE STARTED PROMOTING OUR BEST AND AS WELL ENCOURAGE THEM TO TAKE UP OUR MOST SENSITIVE ELECTIVE POST AND NOT THE "AGBADA,BIG BELLE POLITICIAN" AND OLD ARMY GENERALS THAT HAVE NOTHING FOR USE, I WILL RESERVE MY COMMENTS ON GEJ,I WILL GIVE HIM SOME TIME BEFORE I START COMMENTING ON HIM BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE SO MUCH CONFIDENCE IN HIM THOUGH I VOTED FOR HIM BECAUSE HE IS A BROTHER

violent:

This is just a crappy hogwash compiled by an editor who is oblivious of the meaning to the word "Influential".

Sanusi is an achiever, YES!. . . . . influential? yes, but not very!

Justin Bieber, who occupies a 35th position on the list is arguably more influential that Sanusi, . . .Sanusi occupies an office which provides him with powers to make economical decisions, just like any other CBN governor across the globe. . .Justin Beiber on the other hand could have more than a million teenage girls eating uncooked beans for breakfast if all he did was mention through his facebook or twitter page that he loved eating uncooked beans for breakfast.

Surprisingly too, the editor placed William and Kate Middleton on 36th. . . .seriously? If kate Middleton wore a dress she bought at a high street shop to an occasion, before nightfall of that day, the store is most likely to run out of stock, and it doesn't matter just how expensive the dress was, now that's what i call influential.

murtalaa:

You are entitled to your opinion but my view is that Sanusi's reforms have been adapted by several countries not just in Africa but through out europe, and asia. Imagine the number of people using banks in Nigeria. His regforms affects each and every single one of them whether they know it or not.Then imagine all the countries borrowing his ideas and implementing them in their countries and you can simply realise why they put him where they put him. Bierber and middleton hardly produces such an influence on people.