Ms Thomson said the measures in the bill were more than a "belt and braces approach" to combatting money laundering or mortgage fraud as it added an additional offence because it included "that element of recklessness".

BBC: Land Registration Bill debate

So what that meant was even though you had seen your 401(k) go down, or maybe you're a small business owner and you are tightening your belt, you had a little bit of extra money to cushion the blow.

WHITEHOUSE: Town Hall Meeting on the Economy

Nigerians from elsewhere point out that the oil industry was originally devloped with money earned from groundnuts from the north, coal from the east, tin from the middle belt and cocoa from the west.

BBC: Oil wealth: An unequal bounty