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	<title>Vanguard &#187; Frankly Speaking</title>
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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amnesty]]></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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		<title>Will the real Ribadu stand still?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/08/will-the-real-ribadu-stand-still/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/08/will-the-real-ribadu-stand-still/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ribadu]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
It is a measure of the shamelessness of our elite and the institutions that fuel their values that Chief George could be awarded a national honour in our country and he could later sue some newspapers on account of the indictment report I prepared against him —Malam Nuhu Ribadu]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bode George: I thought I knew you</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/01/bode-george-i-thought-i-knew-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/01/bode-george-i-thought-i-knew-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Frankly Speaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bode George]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First, I was alarmed when Bode went into politics and joined the PDP and quickly became part of Obasanjo’s inner caucus. I was alarmed because as Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910, had warned us, “If you work with glue, sooner or later you are going to get stuck.” (Vanguard Book of Quotations, p.76). I knew that a PDP under the leadership of Obasanjo was going to be a cesspool of corruption - the sort to be avoided by decent people.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>V-mobile shares:  Tinubu, Attah vindicated (2)</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/25/v-mobile-shares-tinubu-attah-vindicated-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/25/v-mobile-shares-tinubu-attah-vindicated-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eribake</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Attah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tinubu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[V-mobile shares]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=31583</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NOW with the gauntlet thrown down by the accused, one would have expected the reporters and the editors of the newspapers which publish the “news” to respond and bring proof. Instead what we have had is silence. Failing to provide proof, one would also have expected them as professionals to tender apologies for what has now been exposed as a rumour carried as news. Again, none has demonstrated such decency.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>V-mobile shares: Tinubu, Attah vindicated</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/18/v-mobile-shares-tinubu-attah-vindicated/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/18/v-mobile-shares-tinubu-attah-vindicated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Frankly Speaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Attah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tinubu]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=29940</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Journalists say a thing they know isn’t true in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough, it will be true —Julien Benda, 1857-1952]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why Saudi at this time, sir?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/11/why-saudi-at-this-time-sir/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/11/why-saudi-at-this-time-sir/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eribake</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saudi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[And I must say very strongly as a senior Nigerian here in the UN Secretariat that there was a greatly missed opportunity that our head of state was not advised properly to come to this assembly…Nigeria missed an opportunity to really register its own views on the world, register its credentials as an African leader.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>ASUU vs FG: A national tragedy</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/27/asuu-vs-fg-a-national-tragedy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/27/asuu-vs-fg-a-national-tragedy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eribake</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ASUU]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[0805-851-8305: Dele, Dele, Dele, how many times did I call your name? Devote your time, energy, and column to ASUU impasse! Let’s save our education now! — Olu]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>58</slash:comments>
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		<title>Open letter to Yar&#8217;Adua on MDGs</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/13/open-letter-to-yaradua-on-mdgs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/13/open-letter-to-yaradua-on-mdgs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eribake</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[yar'adua]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nigeria needs N24 tn to meet MDG target in 2015. Nigeria needs to spend N24trn in the next six years to realize the Millennium Development Goals target by 2015. —Senior Special Adviser Assistant to the Presdient on MDGs, Mrs Fatima Ibrahim, disclosed this to journalists after presenting the second and third quarter reports to President Umaru Yar’Adua in Abuja on Thursday… An average annual requirement of N4trn till 2015 is needed in order to reach the MDGs.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Finally, the truth about the 2.3 GHZ licence</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/06/finally-the-truth-about-the-2-3-ghz-licence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/06/finally-the-truth-about-the-2-3-ghz-licence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2.3 GHZ licence]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=21155</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing I learnt from my detour into semantics was the fact that the person who writes a lot or delivers many speeches runs the risk of being misunderstood, even by those who are well educated and also articulate.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Soludo: If abroad, stay there</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/28/soludo-if-abroad-stay-there/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/28/soludo-if-abroad-stay-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Frankly Speaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soludo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=19239</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The second group “discovered” that I am a tribalist for not endorsing the re-appointment of Soludo and for welcoming Sanusi. Today, as we all start understanding how the banking sector had been thrown into a turmoil in the last four years, and feeling the lash, it will not matter if you are Igbo, Efik, Birom, Yoruba, or Nupe, you will be involved in this calamity.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>66</slash:comments>
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		<title>Soludo: Triumph and near tragedy</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/23/soludo-triumph-and-near-tragedy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/23/soludo-triumph-and-near-tragedy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FORGIVE me for quoting myself but it is merely designed to remind our readers of the fears that were expressed immediately after the governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN announced the new strategic alliance for the naira on Tuesday, August 14, 2007.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>PDP and the lessons we fail to learn</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/16/pdp-and-the-lessons-we-fail-to-learn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/16/pdp-and-the-lessons-we-fail-to-learn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Frankly Speaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PDP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=15999</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What experience and history teach people is that people and governments never have learnt anything from history or acted on principles deduced from it —George Hegel, 1770-1831, Vanguard Book of Quotations p. 92]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rebranding of Akunyili and Ohakim</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/09/rebranding-of-akunyili-and-ohakim/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/09/rebranding-of-akunyili-and-ohakim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[akunyili]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohakim]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=14451</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From information reaching us, she is at daggers drawn with her Minister of State. She joined the “Honourable” Minister of  Education to dance the night away while all Nigerian universities closed down and now she is proposing to spend N8.2 billion to retool where less than N6 billion will do to purchase “tear rubber” equipment. Madam has suddenly become the spokeswoman for people of questionable characters.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Attah/Akpabio: Time for mediation (2)</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/02/attahakpabio-time-for-mediation-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/02/attahakpabio-time-for-mediation-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN the first part of this series, I have pointed out that the disagreement between Attah and Akpabio is mostly technical and quite a great deal of it can be verified. Let me start with the 2009 Democracy Day broadcast by Governor Akpabio, in which, among others, he made the claim above.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Amnesty offer: Waving the flag of surrender</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/26/amnesty-offer-waving-the-flag-of-surrender/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/26/amnesty-offer-waving-the-flag-of-surrender/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amnesty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thank God, it has not taken the government long to realize the futility of the military solution. The consequences of military intervention are now staring us in the face because the action preceded thinking. Now Yar’Adua is waving the flag of surrender in the form of amnesty and only minor war lords are responding.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Another look at Nigerian banks</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/19/another-look-at-nigerian-banks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/19/another-look-at-nigerian-banks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Frankly Speaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Bank of Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigerian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[LET me start this series with the facts on which there can be no serious dispute ore delving into areas where the GSM text punches will fly. Even disagreements are healthy for us. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>I was in Warri (3)</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/12/i-was-in-warri-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/12/i-was-in-warri-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Warri]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They were still shaking their heads after we returned at about 7.00 p.m that evening. From what I saw and heard, it is clear that the JTF might win the present and other battles, but it might not win the war. As David Neustadt, had pointed out in his engaging book, Power and Presidents, “the only battle that counts is the last one.” The JTF, like the Americans in Vietnam, might win a lot of battles but the last one is not yet in sight and it is doubtful that victory will be theirs.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>How the PDP created the militants</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/28/how-the-pdp-created-the-militants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/28/how-the-pdp-created-the-militants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sunday</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[militants]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of course everyone knows I worked for the PDP in the first and second coming of the party in Rivers State. There is no one who does not know that I was used to get votes for the party.]]></description>
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		<title>FEC: Yar’Adua and the rubber stamps</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/21/fec-yar%e2%80%99adua-and-the-rubber-stamps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/21/fec-yar%e2%80%99adua-and-the-rubber-stamps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOT just under Yar’Adua but under every head of state and governor in this country for more than 30 years, members of the Federal and state executive councils have been nothing more than glorified errand boys and girls as well as rubber stamps.]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks, Governor Lamido Sanusi</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/14/thanks-governor-lamido-saunsi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/14/thanks-governor-lamido-saunsi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Size, while it protects against small shocks, is totally worthless when earthquakes arrive. The statement, “the bigger they are, the harder they fall” applies here. One big bank going down can take with it several more enterprises than ten small banks.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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