Nigeria Demands Apology From Sony for Mentioning Nigerian Fraud in a Commercial?

September 22, 2009 at 12:02 am PT

I have to admit that this story seems so bizarre that I’m not quite sure I believe it. A bunch of folks have been submitting the news that the Nigerian government is apparently so upset by a Sony Playstation commercial that it’s demanding an apology from Sony (SNE) for allegedly “portraying Nigeria as a home of fraud where its citizens hardly do genuine business.” Must be quite a commercial right? The only problem is that the commercial does no such thing:

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