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.
"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.
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