Sanusi Lamido on TIME’s 100 Most Influential People List

By Osagie Alonge

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has been named among the 100 most influential people in the world by the American news publication TIME Magazine.

The list is made up of artists and activists, reformers and researchers, heads of state and captains of industry who have had ideas spark dialogue and dissent and sometimes-even revolution.

Sanusi who was appointed Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria on 3 June 2009, ‘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’.

Other popular individuals that made the top 100 list are Facebook’s C.E.O – Mark Zuckerberg, UK sprinter – Kim Clijsters, US president Barrack Obama and his wife – Michelle, teenage pop sensation – Justin Bieber and star TV host – Oprah Winfrey.

TIME Magazine annually assembles a list of the 100 most influential people of the year.

Here is a full list

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