God bless teh interwebs

Apparently, Nigeria has a government! Who knew? I thought the nation was run out of an internet cafe.

Srsly?

Nigeria is officially concerned that the sci-fi movie "District 9" portrays Nigerians in a bad light.

If you haven't seen the movie, there is a gang of Nigerians in an alien camp that are the local organized crime outfit. Yay.

Nigeria is officially concerned that the sci-fi movie "District 9" portrays Nigerians in a bad light.


401, anybody?




"Well, you are listed as the next of kin, so if you wire me $1200 US to cover the service and transaction fee, I can begin the process of transferring the funds from your late uncle's Nigerian lottery winnings immediately! "







Hey, it takes a lot of work to pay for that fancy hat, and internet cafe time ain't free.



Forgetting for the moment that Nigeria is the principal source of global fraud schemes, and that political debate has classically been handled there via machete-to-neck, Thank God that someone is concerned that Nigerians have been negatively stereotyped in science fiction movies.

I hope that you will all join me in my efforts to promote peace, harmony and positive relations between Nigeria and the public. If we can ban internet access in Nigeria, one out of five people in the world will experience positive change in their life at some level! Whether it's freedom from scams, relief from the need to purchase costly personal firewall programs, or simply less spam in ones' email box, if we could just cut the phone lines for one week, everything would improve everywhere, at some level.


Or, barring that, maybe the dude in the hat could fucking prosecute criminals for fraud once in a while.

Oh, wait... without internet fraud, Nigeria would have no economy.