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‘Use Lent to reflect, pray’
Article by February 18, 2021
On Ash Wednesday, the start of the Christian period of Lent, religious leaders urged Barbadians to use this time of lockdown wisely in Lenten reflection and prayer.
During Ash Wednesday Mass from the St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, Bishop-elect Neil Scantlebury said Barbadians should use these times being spent indoors, to pray and meditate on the word of God.
He said: “In this shutdown, we stay home, and what can we do? We can easily get depressed, frustrated, yell and shout at whoever else is in the room.
“So often we are upset and annoyed that we can’t go here, there and do everything that we want to do. It calls for self-restraint yes, self-control – it calls for us to say no to the temptations of wanting to go out there. Now Lent offers that opportunity to grow in these virtues, because Lent indeed is a time where we must master the self, yes. Too often we want to do what we w
By Nwabueze Okonkwo
Retired Group Captain Nnamdi Nnoruka and Chief Azuka Okwuosa, two illustrious sons of Oraifite community in Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra state and close relations of Sir Emeka Offor, an oil mogul and Chairman of Enugu Electric Distriution Company, EEDC have joined the race for Anambra governorship stool for November 6 governorship election in the state.
Nnoruka was an active member of the popular Anambra Peoples Forum, APF, Emeka Offor’s pressure group that disrupted former Governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju’s second term bid, while Okwuosa was a one-time Commissioner for Works during Mbadinuju’s early part of administration, as nominated by Offor.