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An American father and daughter from Florida have been charged with money laundering, mail fraud and securities fraud. They "conned" 15,000 Britons of more than $70m (£34m). The BBC has the full report . This has confirmed my hypothesis that the Americans are also actively engaged in 419 Internet Scams like the notorious Nigerian "Yahoo-Yahoo" Internet Scammers. Lest I forget, the worst fraudsters in Nigeria are the former heads of state General Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Matthew Obasanjo (rtd.) and General Abdulsalami Alhaji Abubakar (rtd.) who duped Nigerians of $2.2bn-worth of energy contracts and misappropriated more billions of dollars meant for the development of Nigeria.

Yes. There were horrible and shocking incidents and events in 2007, as highlighted in the following posts below, but the most shocking of them all was the assassination of Bbenazir Bhutto, the Rose of Pakistan.

Video highlights: XO versus Classmate The BBC News website visited Nigeria to see Africa's first large scale test of the XO laptop - a portable computer designed for the world's poorest children. The One Laptop Per Child Project's so-called $100 laptop, also known as the XO, incorporates technology and software specially developed to cope with the inhospitable conditions found in many developing nations.

Norman Mailer When Norman Mailer died on November 10, 2007, the news of his passage was on the leading newspapers and major TV channels in America and Britain and I saw him on the CNN, SKY and the BBC. But none of these foreign news media reported the news of the passage of Cyprian Ekwensi who even died earlier in the same month on the 4th and my disappointment has been more pronounced by the ignorance of our own news media who only reported the news of Ekwensi's transition below their headlines and only The Guardian has given us a full report on the life of our own Charles Dickens, Cyprian Ekwensi. I have not even heard or read any statements by his contemporary literary icons like Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka. Cyprian Ekwensi I am really disappointed by the intellectual ignorance of the majority of Nigerians online and offline. That is why I do not have much regard for the ignorant posts of Nigerians on Nairaland and other Nigerian forums and blogs. Abubuwan da nake tunani has...

As Al Gore is basking in the euphoria of winning the Nobel Prize for Peace, Steven J. Milloy is sneering at him and the Nobel Prize Committee. A BBC Report and a British Court have joined the critics of Al Gore in disputing the justification for giving him the Nobel Prize for Peace, because, they have found Al Gore’s "An Inconvenient Truth" to be inconsistent with the truth. Steven J. Milloy has issued a press release to question the crediblity of Al Gore's prize winning documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth" and a BBC Report raised more issues to contradict Al Gore's hypothesis. The following is the full text of Steven J. Milloy's press release. 11 Oct 2007 19:34 Africa/Lagos Al Gore Should Win the Nobel Prize for Propaganda, Says JunkScience.com, New BBC Report Says Gore Knew 'An Inconvenient Truth' Presented False Facts WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new BBC report indicates that Al Gore knew that his alarmist global ...