News, as even the layman knows, is the staple of newspapers. These days, however, you are likely to learn nearly as much about goings-on in our dear country by going through the political advertisements that inundate our newspapers as you will by reading the news columns.
By now not a few regular, possibly even the occasional, newspaper readers may have noticed the long running campaign against the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN), Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, by a self-styled Renaissance Professionals (RP). For months now, the group has published one, and occasionally two, full page adverts in at least three national dailies each day calling for the sack of the governor for incompetence and other sundry offences.
Until the recent elevation of Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan as Acting President by legislative fiat, the primary objective of RP seemed to have been to swing public opinion against the banking reforms Lamido had embarked upon no sooner than he replaced Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo late last year. In this objective the group does not seem to have achieved much.
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