Vanguard (Lagos)
7 April 2008
FRIDAY'S directive by President Umaru Yar'Adua to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Department of Petroleum Resources and the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) to take urgent steps to end the current fuel scarcity in the country does not seem to have any effect yet as the situation degenerated at the weekend.
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Reality will sooner or later show up because TRUTH IS PERENNIAL. Even if people refuse to call a spade a spade, there is no doubt that ' A SPADE IS A SPADE. Unless and until people are prepared to face the reality, progress will likely elude the country for the politicians are, under an atmosphere of very thick delusion, delibrately destroying the basis for the nation's progress. You cannot eat your cake and still have it!