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		<title>No, Mr President, you don’t feel the pain &#8211; 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mbgolu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Trust is a matter of bets about future actions based on experience. A track record of keeping promises is a good predictor”. Rosabeth Kanter, Editor, Harvard Business Review; Sept-October 1992. (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS p 252).]]></description>
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		<title>No, Mr President, you don’t feel the pain &#8211; 1</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/no-mr-president-you-dont-feel-the-pain-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ojiego</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Let me seize this opportunity to assure all Nigerians that I feel the pains that you all feel”. President Goodluck Jonathan's address to the nation after subsidy removal. Permit me, Mr President of Nigeria, on behalf of my constituency, the “Area Boys of Nigeria”, to wish you a pleasant 2012 – if you deserve it. ]]></description>
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		<title>Fuel at N97: The same old song</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/fuel-at-n97-the-same-old-song/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ojiego</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To this Barbara Tuchmann, the leading authority on thirteenth and fourteenth century Europe had added: “History does not repeat itself; man does”. President Goodluck Jonathan and his government on one side and the Nigerian Labor movement as well as civil society groups had just taken the entire country through the same rigmarole we have experienced before each time a government had increased the price of petrol.]]></description>
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		<title>A tale of two governments</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/a-tale-of-two-governments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/a-tale-of-two-governments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“When those in office regard the power vested in them as personal prerogatives, they inevitably enrich themselves , promote their families, favour their friends. The fundamental structures of the modern state are eroded Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s Prime Minister.]]></description>
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		<title>Fuel subsidy removal: Meat pie without meat – 2</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/fuel-subsidy-removal-meat-pie-without-meat-%e2%80%93-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/fuel-subsidy-removal-meat-pie-without-meat-%e2%80%93-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday, January 1, 2012, the first part of this series of articles ended as follows: “SUBSIDY IS GONE. Hardship begins!!!!” The next day Nigerians woke up to discover that, while they slept, the government they elected in April 2011, had stabbed them in the back. ]]></description>
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		<title>Feul subsidy removal: Meat pie without meat &#8211; 1</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/feul-subsidy-removal-meat-pie-without-meat-%e2%80%93-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/feul-subsidy-removal-meat-pie-without-meat-%e2%80%93-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you voted for “Jonathan not PDP” in the April elections, then you have no moral right to complain about fuel subsidy removal. When you vote a candidate; you simultaneously vote for a set of policies and programmes. It is merely stupid to want to separate the two. ]]></description>
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		<title>Lagos State governorship: 2015 Christian agenda -3</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/lagos-state-governorship-2015-christian-agenda-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/lagos-state-governorship-2015-christian-agenda-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By all standards u qualify as a Senior Citizen of Lagos State..I dnt believe u had a deep thought of what u might be igniting before u write on d Christian Governorship thing in Lagos. Please it takes a slip from people with followership like u to start what they cannot finish as there are millions out there to highjack noble talks and put the state on fire. I am a Christian.. Lagos needs peace for development than who is the Gov. Muslim of Christian…”.]]></description>
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		<title>ASUU goes on strike again?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/asuu-goes-on-strike-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/asuu-goes-on-strike-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nnamdiojiego</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there are people not surprised that ASUU is back on strike, they are the faculty and students of UniJankara – Seat of Street Wisdom. We don’t blow grammar like the Professors of ASUU do, but we know when we are dealing with con-men – even if they are called Presidents and Vice-Presidents. ]]></description>
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		<title>Lagos State governorship: 2015 Christian Agenda –2</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/lagos-state-governorship-2015-christian-agenda-%e2%80%932/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/lagos-state-governorship-2015-christian-agenda-%e2%80%932/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An elderly and wise man like you should not incite people in matter of religion in Lagos. Do not create crisis in Lagos. We Lagosians are peace loving people.]]></description>
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		<title>Lagos State governorship: 2015 Christian Agenda –1</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/lagos-state-governorship-2015-christian-agenda-%e2%80%931/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/lagos-state-governorship-2015-christian-agenda-%e2%80%931/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 06:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, should start now thinking of a Christian successor to Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, a Muslim, by religion, for 2015. Otherwise Christians should spend the next three and a half years, before the April 2015 elections, searching for another political party in which they will no longer be treated as second class members. ]]></description>
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		<title>President Jonathan &amp; &#8216;unfulfilled&#8217; prophecy –1</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/president-jonathan-%e2%80%9cunfulfilled%e2%80%9d-prophecy-%e2%80%931/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/president-jonathan-%e2%80%9cunfulfilled%e2%80%9d-prophecy-%e2%80%931/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It can be safely assumed that the statement issued by General Azazi was cleared and approved by President Jonathan, Commander-In-Chief, C-I-C, of the Armed Forces of Nigeria. ]]></description>
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		<title>Medium term fiscal framework &amp; the banking sector –2</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/medium-term-fiscal-framework-the-banking-sector-%e2%80%932/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/medium-term-fiscal-framework-the-banking-sector-%e2%80%932/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I want to see a situation where bank depositors can go to sleep with their two eyes closed”. Professor Chukwumah Soludo, Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, August 2004. And for Soludo, security could only be guaranteed by creating banks which were “too big to fail. Like the author of the great ship, called Titanic whose builder boasted that “even God cannot sink it,” Soludo, as we had noted earlier, got his wish. ]]></description>
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		<title>Before we occupy: Constructive advice to President – 3</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/before-we-occupy-constructive-advice-to-president-%e2%80%93-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/before-we-occupy-constructive-advice-to-president-%e2%80%93-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too much inequality can harm the efficient operation of an economy…excessive inequality can have two perverse consequences: first, the very wealthy lobby for favours. Contracts and bailouts that distort markets; second growing inequality undermines the ability of the poorest to invest in their own education…These factors mean that high inequality can generate further high inequality and eventually poor economic growth.]]></description>
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		<title>At last the truth on Vision 20:2020</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/at-last-the-truth-on-vision-202020/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/at-last-the-truth-on-vision-202020/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 23:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nnamdiojiego</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It is expected that based on the implementation of the Vision 20:2020 Economic Blueprint, which again goes to the root of resource management, the nation’s GDP should be growing at about 14 per cent per annum from 2010 to 2020, to realize this vision.]]></description>
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		<title>Before we occupy: constructive advice to president -1</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/10/before-we-occupy-constructive-advice-to-president-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/10/before-we-occupy-constructive-advice-to-president-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nnamdiojiego</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everywhere you look, the ruling classes, represented by the ruling party - at all levels - have become the enemies of the people - meaning the nation itself. It has taken over two thousand years for the people of the world to understand that nobody, and I mean nobody, can be trusted with power for too long without breeding corruption...]]></description>
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