Spectacle of Sacrifice: Who truly owns spoils of Nigeria’s fuel subsidy autopsy?, by Stephanie Shaakaa

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Counter move!
Hi Readers! A reader sent a text to ask if Belinda was present at my daughter’s traditional wedding in Jos just before Christmas.
Changing position in the new year! (5)
As Almighty as God is, if you do not obey what He says, He cannot do anything for you. For example, if you feel too big to repent, how will God save you? It is true that God is Omnipotent, but He will not permit Himself to save you, until you humble yourself before Him and repent.
PIB: Oppourtunity for NASS to redeem its image
“Traitors….are an unfortunate class of people. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t be traitors. They conspire to bust up a country; they fail, and they are traitors. They bust her, and they become statesmen (and women) and heroes (and heroines). (Translated from original).
Artemis Ward, 1872, in “The Tower of London.”
Forest Registration
We have quite a large number of people in this country who are permanently cynical. They never see anything good about government and its agencies.
Time and projections for the New Year
Time, we all assume, is undirectional and rolls inevitably on from the past and present to the infinite future. Hence, when midnight arrived on Friday, December 31, 2010, people all over the world rejoiced and jubilated for surviving to see the New Year.
President Saviour? Not a chance
An amusing cartoon last week in the Vanguard raised the question of whether President Goodluck Jonathan is finally the political saviour Nigerians have long awaited.
Jos: Let’s do something-Anything
Jos is a sickening metaphor of a potential conflagration that seriously bothers my subconscious. We live in fears of possible present-dangers, but worse than that are the horrible imaginings of what the Jos of today may rub off the Nigeria of tomorrow.
Sex is God’s idea
There is no doubt that Father Ralph loves his God more than he loves the woman of focus as he claims in the movie. His problem started the day, when as a young priest, he sets his eyes on Meggie, who became his protégé, till when he died as a Cardinal. Though a fiction, this story represents the sexual struggles that many Christians are dealing with.
Sacred time; sacred space
By Debbie Ogunjobi My favourite space is painted in cool shades of green (my favourite colour); the furniture is huge and more built for comfort than decoration. The curtains are the exact shades of green as the walls and it is also my sacred space. The focal point is my Altar on which stands a […]
Who is Chukwuma Nwabara?
I doubt there is someone like Rev. Chukwuma Nwabara in Kubwa, Abuja. If he exists, he is trying to call attention to himself. He is probably using the same tricks like the little-known American priest who called attention to himself that he would burn the Qur’an.
Of course, he did not burn the Qur’an and America and the world listened. He came to the notice of the American President.

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