There are many interesting things to see by the roadside as you drive in Nigeria - that's during the few seconds you're not avoiding kekes, motorists on the wrong side of the road, potcraters and roadworks.  One that I like on my way into the BRiCC office is the sign on a tailor's shop.  God is invoked in many business titles, from dentists to photographers but for this tailor he's the senior partner. The sign over the shop includes a quote from Genesis: '"Let us clothe man" - God is the partner in our mission.'

God is very present in daily life here, possibly because people live much closer to mortality than we do in the West.  This was brought home yet again earlier in the week when the BRiCC family went on a condolence visit to the brother of Sadiq, our education co-ordinator. His three year old daughter had died the day before after eating the rat poison he kept under the dvds. "It'd been there for three months and there'd been no problems," he told us.  My heart went out to the little girl's mother who had been divorced by her Muslim husband when her Christian faith was reignited. By custom, the children belong to the father. There was no sign or mention of her when we visited.