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	<title>Vanguard &#187; Columns</title>
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		<title>Before we drown in corruption</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/21/before-we-drown-in-corruption/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/21/before-we-drown-in-corruption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Matters Arising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is it still possible to look a Nigerian in the face and not think of corruption? Apart from the criminal suspicion with which Nigerians are perceived in most parts of the world, we appear to have added another ugly face of corruption to our putrid image abroad.]]></description>
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		<title>Light up someone’s life by giving</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/21/light-up-someone%e2%80%99s-life-by-giving/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/21/light-up-someone%e2%80%99s-life-by-giving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Woman to Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[celebration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am so glad that you all agree with me that this season calls for serious celebration. As you begin to light and
decorate your house, you must also not fail to light up someone’s life. Spread some love. Be in a sharing and giving mood. ]]></description>
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		<title>*the Ikemba speaks</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/21/the-ikemba-speaks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/21/the-ikemba-speaks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Passing Scene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andy Uba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ojukwu]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There were speculations that the verdict of the Court of Appeal on the matter of the Anambra State Governorship case involving Dr. Andy Uba, could create a state of anarchy in the State, if it was not properly handled. Legal tussles of that kind are usually attended by conjectures, and rumours of one kind or the other.]]></description>
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		<title>You  no &#8216;Gree!</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/20/you-no-gree/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/20/you-no-gree/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sweet and Sour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seduction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[LAST  week, I quoted a friend who thinks that seduction is a “coping” or survival strategy within certain contexts and is absolutely convinced that predatory women who set out to seduce influential men deserve sympathy rather than condemnation.]]></description>
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		<title>The Romance and Beauty of Politics in Nigeria</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/20/the-romance-and-beauty-of-politics-in-nigeria/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/20/the-romance-and-beauty-of-politics-in-nigeria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Layman's View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[romance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It might, at times, be appropriate to question the rationale behind the great rush of some otherwise respected citizens into politics which is often described by many as a dirty game.    It is puzzling to watch the number of candidates vying for elective political posts, whether that of President, State Governor or of Local Council or Chairman [often referred to as ‘The Chair‘]. ]]></description>
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		<title>Sharing in Mandela’s legacy</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/20/sharing-in-mandela%e2%80%99s-legacy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/20/sharing-in-mandela%e2%80%99s-legacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Owei Lakemfa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mandela]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yet Mandela is simply a human being imbued with human frailties. His two marriages crashed before he found renewed love in the hands of Graca Machel, widow of the unforgetable African freedom fighter, Samora Machel.  Quite humorous; when he knew his old age can no longer carry his punishing local and international schedules, he told the world: “Don’t call me, I’ll call you”.]]></description>
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		<title>NIGER DELTA:  Those Who Dare Are Winning!</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/20/niger-delta-those-who-dare-are-winning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/20/niger-delta-those-who-dare-are-winning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positive Letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We join millions of Nigerians in hailing your courageous and peace-encouraging decision to meet, last Saturday, with the MEND-appointed Aaron Team led by Admiral Okhai Mike Akhigbe, and comprising distinguished Nigerians like Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, retired military strategist, General Luke Kakadu Aprezi and Architect Denzil Amagbe Kentebe.]]></description>
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		<title>Promote Amodu TM,  appoint Keshi coach</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/20/promote-amodu-tm-appoint-keshi-coach/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/20/promote-amodu-tm-appoint-keshi-coach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Onochie Anibeze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amodu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keshi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I want to start by congratulating the Nigeria Football Federation for Nigeria’s qualification for the 2010 World Cup, the first World Cup in Africa.]]></description>
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		<title>Maryam Babangida&#8230;. Obituary for the living</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/19/maryam-babangida-obituary-for-the-living/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/19/maryam-babangida-obituary-for-the-living/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letter from Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maryam Babangida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obituar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["I do not think that it is the ight thing for one to write one’s epitaph. So, I am afraid I would have to ask that I be excused from writing my epitaph.... what I want is that when it pleases God to send for me, well my contemporaries would be in the position to write whatever they like, pro, or contra, about me. But History will be my witness.’’]]></description>
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		<title>Strong indigene, weak citizen (2)</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/19/strong-indigene-weak-citizen-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/19/strong-indigene-weak-citizen-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigene]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[THIS two-part series is a response to Hon Gozie Agbakoba’s Bill in the House of Reps seeking to convert Nigerian citizens that have dwelt continuously in any part of Nigeria to indigenes with full benefits.]]></description>
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		<title>Why encourage youths to have sex?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/18/why-encourage-youths-to-have-sex/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/18/why-encourage-youths-to-have-sex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dear Bunmi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You recently advised a 20-year-old man that when he’s with a woman he cares for, he shouldn’t hesitate if they both wanted to know each other sexually; that making love was the most natural thing in the world. I agree with you that it is - with love and commitment in marriage.]]></description>
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		<title>Iva Valley Massacre: Sixty years of  struggle</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/18/iva-valley-massacre-sixty-years-of-struggle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/18/iva-valley-massacre-sixty-years-of-struggle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Owei Lakemfa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colonialists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prosecuted]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[IT is exactly 60 years today November 18, 2009 when armed British colonial policemen opened fire on defenceless coal miners in the Iva Valley mine in Enugu. In those moments of collective colonial insanity, the colonialists within minutes murdered 21 Nigerian workers and injured 51.]]></description>
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		<title>U-17 World Cup:Painful fall of the Eaglets</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/17/u-17-world-cuppainful-fall-of-the-eaglets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/17/u-17-world-cuppainful-fall-of-the-eaglets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letter from Washington]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of the tournament, the Spanish coach embraced the Swiss national coach, Dany Ryser. 
It was clear he had been working at very close quarters with the Swiss bench. The Swiss man of the match, Haris Seferovic, and my own man of the match, Ricardo Rodriquez, were drowning in tears of ecstasy inside the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An amnesty dead on arrival</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/17/an-amnesty-dead-on-arrival/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/17/an-amnesty-dead-on-arrival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Talking Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amnesty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was always going to be problematic. That much was certain- from the moment the Federal Government made its offer of ‘amnesty’ to those we’re now obliged to call former militants of the Niger Delta. How, some had asked, do you give amnesty to an individual never found guilty of a crime?]]></description>
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		<title>The Law and Gospel views on Christian marriage and divorce (4)</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/17/the-law-and-gospel-views-on-christian-marriage-and-divorce-4-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/17/the-law-and-gospel-views-on-christian-marriage-and-divorce-4-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tuesday Platform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[THE world without Israel was heathen, gentile, who “were aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world” (Ephesians 2:12).]]></description>
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		<title>Strong indigene, weak citizen</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/16/strong-indigene-weak-citizen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/16/strong-indigene-weak-citizen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scholarship]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Bill in the House of Representatives seeking to convert citizens who have lived in a state for 10 years into indigenes is said to be enjoying the cold attention of legislators. Sponsored by Hon Gozie Agbakoba, it says that any Nigerian who has lived peacefully in a state for 10 unbroken years and fulfilling all his civic obligations shall be entitled to privileges of an indigene, including scholarship, appointments to public office and voting and being voted for.]]></description>
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		<title>In the matter of Chukwudi and co</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/16/in-the-matter-of-chukwudi-and-co/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/16/in-the-matter-of-chukwudi-and-co/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sports Bassey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adokiye Amiesimaka esq.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Adokiye says he has licences, he has documents, now he has people who have come out to say “we have more. We will testify”The former commissioner for justice laughed at a suggestion by Taiwo Ogunjobi, one that says this team will be our next U- 20(?) our Under-20 at age 40?, he asked. He wants the sports, education and youths ministries to come together and evolve an enduring system that will guarantee the evolution of our youth. He wants more.]]></description>
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		<title>‘WETIN’ CONCERN NLC/TUC WITH FOREX MARKET?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/16/%e2%80%98wetin%e2%80%99-concern-nlctuc-with-forex-market/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/16/%e2%80%98wetin%e2%80%99-concern-nlctuc-with-forex-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rational Perspectives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOREX MARKET]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our Government and Organised Labour are once again for the umpteenth time in about five years embroiled in what may best be described as an unending petrol price control war, which was ignited over two decades ago with the drastic devaluation of the naira and increasing product prices. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Amanze Obi phenomenon</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/15/the-amanze-obi-phenomenon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/15/the-amanze-obi-phenomenon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sunday Perspectives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amanze Obi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[‘THE Amanze Obi phenomenon  is not an attempt at myth-making or at praise-singing, but a realistic effort to present an otherwise misunderstood personality, Amanze Obi.” This was how my friend, William Amanze Obi, and I used to rhapsodise about an article I was supposed to write on him more than 20 years ago.]]></description>
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		<title>Amnesty, deregulation and the fate of Nigeria</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/15/amnesty-deregulation-and-the-fate-of-nigeria/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/15/amnesty-deregulation-and-the-fate-of-nigeria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Frankly Speaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amnesty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deregulation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The gradual descent into anarchy and increasing escalation of violence occurred and grew out of control probably because the leaders of those two countries, at the time it mattered most, failed to put nation above self-interest until there was no nation to lead anymore.]]></description>
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