Even a germ could go about smug in the expectation that it might be put under a microscope and looked at.
And that was after Mr Musa's family had paid the police 100,000 naira in the expectation that a bribe would help reduce the charges.
Some observers attribute this phenomenon to investors buying metals in the expectation that prices will rise further in 2011, when demand is forecast to outstrip supply.
The government relaxed planning laws, the Banks threw money at anything involving cement, and investors gobbled up houses in the expectation that prices could only go up.
They then gave the volunteers coffee in the expectation that it would ease the pain.
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IS designed to act as a slipway, launching students into the wider world in the expectation that the currents will guide them into a job.
The man whistled again and again, and sat down and waited in the expectation that he would return. But no dog appeared, and at length he resumed his journey.