http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5891522.ece?Submitted=true

Last year’s number one, the human calculator and canny investor Warren Buffett, has slipped back to second. The “Sage of Omaha” lost $25 billion, roughly equivalent to the gross domestic product of Nigeria, in 2008.

I got up this morning to hear from CNBC the above quip. . . . I thought, well, it's CNBC. It's run by Yanks so such ignorance is hardly unheard of, especially as they were seemingly quoting from Forbes magazine, a Yank magazine.

Only to see the same ignorant comment repeated in the Times paper edition, their online edition still carries same. How can business editors be so ignorant about something as simple as the GDP of Nigeria?

Hey, Nigeria may suck big time but to claim our GDP is a mere $25 billion, that worked up my ''nationalist'' fervor, probably uneccesarily.

They are just ignorant

Why Times dey phock up na? I always trust their news.

They probably meant Niger, not Nigeria.

I dont see this as suprising.

I can bet the same news will have been re-produced by the Daily Mail.

i can bet punch and guardian would copy, paste and report it as is without researching if its fact.