[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  The General Snow 🇨🇮 [@GeneralSnow_](/creator/twitter/GeneralSnow_) on x 267.2K followers Created: 2025-07-18 11:22:35 UTC A TALE OF TWO CBN GOVERNORS: SANUSI/SOLUDO. When history writes about visionary leadership in the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi will stand tall as a reformer who understood that a financial institution could be a force for social transformation. From June 2009 to February 2014, Sanusi redefined the role of the CBN by channeling billions of naira into real projects that touched the lives of ordinary Nigerians. He took the bank’s corporate social responsibility allocation and converted it into tangible infrastructure across the country. Under Sanusi’s watch, every federal university in Nigeria received at least one significant project. Bayero University Kano was transformed with new lecture theatres and administrative blocks. Uthman Dan Fodio University in Sokoto saw the completion of major building projects that improved the learning environment for thousands of students. The University of Benin was upgraded with improved infrastructure, and universities in Abuja and Enugu also benefitted from state-of-the-art facilities. These were not empty promises or media stunts; these were completed, functional projects still standing today. Sanusi did not stop at education. He provided ₦100 million in relief to victims of Boko Haram in Kano, proving that leadership is not just about monetary policy but about humanity. He pioneered the creation of Centres of Excellence in selected universities, designed to produce the next generation of top-tier professionals. His vision was simple yet profound: use the CBN’s vast resources not just to stabilize banks, but to build communities and uplift the nation. Now, let us place this towering record side by side with Charles Soludo’s era as CBN Governor between 2004 and 2009. The contrast is staggering. While Sanusi was investing in infrastructure, education and social welfare, Soludo was consumed by boardroom theories and textbook economics. For all his academic credentials and the loud rhetoric of being a “reformer,” what did Soludo actually do for ordinary Nigerians through community service allocations? Nothing. Not one major project. Not one university building. Not one centre of excellence. Not even a token intervention for crisis victims. His tenure was a barren field when it came to using the CBN’s CSR resources for development. There is no legacy of Soludo that anyone can point to outside the narrow walls of financial restructuring. No lecture halls, no laboratories, no upgraded campuses, no emergency relief to the needy. While Sanusi was building structures and hope across Nigeria, Soludo was building theories and press statements. His record on community development is an embarrassing zero. It is a failure so complete that it exposes a fundamental truth: some leaders talk about development; others actually deliver it. The difference is clear. Sanusi saw an opportunity to turn the Central Bank into a tool for national growth, and he seized it boldly. Soludo, with all his hype, did absolutely nothing to impact lives beyond the confines of financial institutions. In the story of CBN’s role in community development, Sanusi wrote chapters of progress. Soludo left blank pages.  XXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [obi](/topic/obi) [peter obi](/topic/peter-obi) [billions](/topic/billions) [nigeria](/topic/nigeria) [bank of](/topic/bank-of) [Post Link](https://x.com/GeneralSnow_/status/1946168720205689036)
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The General Snow 🇨🇮 @GeneralSnow_ on x 267.2K followers
Created: 2025-07-18 11:22:35 UTC
A TALE OF TWO CBN GOVERNORS: SANUSI/SOLUDO.
When history writes about visionary leadership in the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi will stand tall as a reformer who understood that a financial institution could be a force for social transformation. From June 2009 to February 2014, Sanusi redefined the role of the CBN by channeling billions of naira into real projects that touched the lives of ordinary Nigerians. He took the bank’s corporate social responsibility allocation and converted it into tangible infrastructure across the country.
Under Sanusi’s watch, every federal university in Nigeria received at least one significant project. Bayero University Kano was transformed with new lecture theatres and administrative blocks. Uthman Dan Fodio University in Sokoto saw the completion of major building projects that improved the learning environment for thousands of students. The University of Benin was upgraded with improved infrastructure, and universities in Abuja and Enugu also benefitted from state-of-the-art facilities. These were not empty promises or media stunts; these were completed, functional projects still standing today.
Sanusi did not stop at education. He provided ₦100 million in relief to victims of Boko Haram in Kano, proving that leadership is not just about monetary policy but about humanity. He pioneered the creation of Centres of Excellence in selected universities, designed to produce the next generation of top-tier professionals. His vision was simple yet profound: use the CBN’s vast resources not just to stabilize banks, but to build communities and uplift the nation.
Now, let us place this towering record side by side with Charles Soludo’s era as CBN Governor between 2004 and 2009. The contrast is staggering. While Sanusi was investing in infrastructure, education and social welfare, Soludo was consumed by boardroom theories and textbook economics. For all his academic credentials and the loud rhetoric of being a “reformer,” what did Soludo actually do for ordinary Nigerians through community service allocations? Nothing. Not one major project. Not one university building. Not one centre of excellence. Not even a token intervention for crisis victims. His tenure was a barren field when it came to using the CBN’s CSR resources for development.
There is no legacy of Soludo that anyone can point to outside the narrow walls of financial restructuring. No lecture halls, no laboratories, no upgraded campuses, no emergency relief to the needy. While Sanusi was building structures and hope across Nigeria, Soludo was building theories and press statements. His record on community development is an embarrassing zero. It is a failure so complete that it exposes a fundamental truth: some leaders talk about development; others actually deliver it.
The difference is clear. Sanusi saw an opportunity to turn the Central Bank into a tool for national growth, and he seized it boldly. Soludo, with all his hype, did absolutely nothing to impact lives beyond the confines of financial institutions. In the story of CBN’s role in community development, Sanusi wrote chapters of progress. Soludo left blank pages.
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