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	<title>Vanguard &#187; Matters Arising</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>
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		<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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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>PDP and the rest of us</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/14/pdp-and-the-rest-of-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/14/pdp-and-the-rest-of-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[PDP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every passing day,  events unfolding  in the run-up to 2011 are lowering hope for a credible political process that is deemed democratic.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Deregulation: What haven’t we actually deregulated?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/07/deregulation-what-haven%e2%80%99t-we-actually-deregulated/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/07/deregulation-what-haven%e2%80%99t-we-actually-deregulated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Matters Arising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deregulation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=34552</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are already a hopelessly “deregulated” society. Everything about us is no longer, by any means, regulated. Government, politicians and economic miracle workers believe that the only way we can enjoy a better life in Nigeria is to be economically socially and politically deregulated.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Criminals can’t enjoy immunity</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/31/criminals-can%e2%80%99t-enjoy-immunity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/31/criminals-can%e2%80%99t-enjoy-immunity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Matters Arising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[criminals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immunity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=33027</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again, President Yar’Adua has spoken in very clear terms against the immunity clause of the constitution, which makes prosecution of ‘executive criminals’ impossible whilst they are in office. I must admit that I sympathize with Mr president even if I think differently on the subject.]]></description>
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		<title>Separating morality from legality</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/24/separating-morality-from-legality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/24/separating-morality-from-legality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Matters Arising]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=31523</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The defective nature of the 1999 constitution is becoming more glaring. If anything, the latest judgement on the Zamfara Governor Mahmud Aliyu Shinkafi’s defection from ANPP, (the party on which platform he was elected), gives urgency to the need for thorough rework of that constitution.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tunji Otegbeye: Exit of a true nationalist</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/17/tunji-otegbeye-exit-of-a-true-nationalist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/17/tunji-otegbeye-exit-of-a-true-nationalist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Matters Arising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[familiar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Otegbeye]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunji]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=30062</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are familiar with the culture of “wasting” our great and talented citizens. When we cannot waste them we neutralize and shut them out of effective participation in nation-building.]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond the arms from  the militants</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/10/beyond-the-arms-from-the-militants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/10/beyond-the-arms-from-the-militants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Matters Arising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[militants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been taking a serious look at the quantity and quality of arms said to have been given up by the so-called militants of the Niger Delta, and it keeps my heart  racing  that such arsenal of sophisticated arms could have been in the possession of those who are not in the regular security  forces of this country.]]></description>
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		<title>The word everywhere is insecurity</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/03/the-word-everywhere-is-insecurity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/03/the-word-everywhere-is-insecurity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Matters Arising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alhaji Bala Bello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insecurity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Within a short space of 10 days, (late last month), two daring abductions – (kidnappings if you like), took place in Kaduna State. Secretary to the State Government, Mr Waje Yayok and businessman Alhaji Bala Bello were snatched by kidnappers, and the Kaduna Government was said to have paid N10 million to secure SSG’s release on Wednesday.
No doubt, these are worse than dangerous times in Nigeria. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Maduekwe’s dialectics on Iwu</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/26/maduekwe%e2%80%99s-dialectics-on-iwu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/26/maduekwe%e2%80%99s-dialectics-on-iwu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Matters Arising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iwu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maduekwe]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=25330</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nigeria’s foreign minister was reported to have said in New York that “Mr President himself... publicly accepted that the process that brought him to power was flawed; so, Nigerians would be shocked if the same president goes ahead to re-appoint the same man to conduct the 2011 general election.”]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>ASUU Strike: Enough of stand &#8211; off please</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/19/asuu-strike-enough-of-stand-off-please/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/19/asuu-strike-enough-of-stand-off-please/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Matters Arising]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=23935</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is not funny that four months on, public tertiary educational institutions in the country have remained shut because of the action and inaction of ASUU and the Federal Government.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Don’t cry for Gani!</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/12/don%e2%80%99t-cry-for-gani/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/12/don%e2%80%99t-cry-for-gani/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Matters Arising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gani]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=22311</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the death of Gani Fawehinmi, a lot has been said and published about him: about his dogged fighting spirit; about his passion for improving the fortunes of the less privileged and the poor; about his fierce battles against injustice and wickedness in high places. The list is longer.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Printing more money can backfire</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/05/printing-more-money-can-backfire/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/05/printing-more-money-can-backfire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Matters Arising]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=20788</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the days of Idi Amin, Uganda took the risk of printing new money to bail that country’s economy out of the dull-drums. The exercise backfired so catastrophically, it has taken Museveni over two decades to right the disastrous consequences.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>ASUU-FG face off in who’s interest?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/29/asuu-fg-face-off-in-who%e2%80%99s-interest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/29/asuu-fg-face-off-in-who%e2%80%99s-interest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Matters Arising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASUU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FG]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=19154</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For several weeks on, all government-owned universities have been shut as a result of the “Academic Staff being on strike. Things have been this way for decades now. Yet we have still not devised an effective method to manage the crisis.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>2011, there is real cause to worry</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/15/2011-there-is-real-cause-to-worry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/15/2011-there-is-real-cause-to-worry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Matters Arising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amnesty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=15963</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Democracy? That’s a long way off. What we have on ground is a quarter kilometre  to one-party dictatorship. We say we are a Federal Republic of Nigeria, but there is nothing federal about the system which has mutated within half a century from a federation to a military-style unitary dictatorship.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Honour, politics mutually exclusive?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/08/honour-politics-mutually-exclusive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/08/honour-politics-mutually-exclusive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Matters Arising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=14440</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The politicians are fooling around again like they did in previous “republics”. They should be called to order before we are all consumed by the disorder which this tomfoolery is most certainly going to result  in, as our past history so tragically depicts. My only fear is that we might not be as lucky as in previous situations where we emerged from it all in one piece. We will be over stretching our luck if we keep that hope  alive.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Boko Haram: What a madness?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/01/boko-haram-what-a-madness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/01/boko-haram-what-a-madness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Matters Arising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boko Haram]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=13426</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether it was the government or the Islamic insurgents who struck first is irrelevant; what should bother any right thinking Nigerian is that in spite of foreknowledge of the anti-social activities of the Taliban and the Boko Haram group, security forces in the country could not monitor and contain their activities before they became a deadly threat to the civilized existence we are all trying to live.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Their road, not our road</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/25/their-road-not-our-road/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/25/their-road-not-our-road/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Matters Arising]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=11926</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The nation’s major sea port of Apapa and Tin Can Island are critically endangered.
This new danger does not arise as a result of militants’ action, but due to lack of constructive reasoning, planning and execution of sensitive projects, necessary for Apapa and Tin Can Island Ports to function effectively.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Quintessential LKJ at 80</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/18/quintessential-lkj-at-80/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/18/quintessential-lkj-at-80/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Matters Arising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lateef Kayode Jakande]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politicians]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=10639</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In what was considered as a world record by UNESCO, Jakande constructed within 4 years, 23,093 classrooms; increased the number of primary school from 604 in 1979 to 954 in 1983.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Can Amnesty stop militants?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/11/can-amnesty-stop-militants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/11/can-amnesty-stop-militants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Matters Arising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MEND]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=8776</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At least, MEND is saying, ‘give us the kind of development that you have in Abuja and we would be satisfied’.
In response to this, the government is creating institutions like the Niger Delta Development Corporation (NDDC) through which to channel this development in the Niger Delta. On top of that, it has created a ministry for the region which at best is a bureaucracy.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Justice Belgore’s tips on constitution</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/04/the-justice-belgore%e2%80%99s-tips-on-constitution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/04/the-justice-belgore%e2%80%99s-tips-on-constitution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice Belgore]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most tragic crises we have on our hands today is the bloody uprising in the Niger Delta. Justice Belgore made it also clear to everybody who is not driven by selfish and inordinate lust for power that the 1999 constitution is responsible for the Niger Delta crisis because it did not address the issue as the 1960 independent constitution did.]]></description>
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