CNN’s Christiane Amanpour compares Super Bowl Outage To Nigerian Situation
Wednesday, February 06, 2013Omoba
CNN’s Chief International and anchor of Amanpour,
on Monday night likened a 35 – minute blackout at Super Bowl to a regular
feature in Nigeria. This launched a blizzard of tweets, with many coming from
Nigerians who were amused to know they are not the only ones with electricity
challenges.
In the video, Amanpour parodies the epileptic power
situation in Nigeria and its connection with the black out at the Super Bowl,
noting some of the tweets from Nigerians
“Power outage at the Super Bowl on Sunday.
Suddenly, Nigeria doesn’t look as dark anymore.”
“If they had the Super Bowl in Nigeria, the power
coming back on would be the real surprise.”
Amanpour recalled the interview she recently had
with President Goodluck Jonathan where he said Nigerians were
pleased with the government’s commitment to improve power and that there was
considerable improvement in electricity supply in Nigeria.
This interview was followed
by several tweets from Nigerians who denied the President’s claim. In the
concluding part of the video, CNN interviewed some Nigerians who complained about
the epileptic power supply in Nigeria and their growing dependence on the use
of generators
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