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	<title>Vanguard &#187; Owei Lakemfa</title>
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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>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>South Africa, going Zimbabwe&#8217;s way</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/13/south-africa-going-zimbabwes-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/13/south-africa-going-zimbabwes-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Owei Lakemfa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=35871</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[SOUTH Africa has again postponed the target date of its land reform programme.  In its post apartheid election manifesto, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) had promised to redistribute 30 percent of agricultural land in its first five years in office. But by 2001, some seven years later, less than two per cent had been distributed.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Deregulating the absence of governance</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/11/deregulating-the-absence-of-governance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/11/deregulating-the-absence-of-governance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Owei Lakemfa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deregulating]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PRESIDENTIAL spokesman, Olusegun Adeniyi is an intelligent person. That was why I was disappointed when he joined the chorus of government officials who argue quite illogically, that the scarcity of petroleum products which government attributes to hoarding and fraudulent activities by oil marketers, is a justification for the deregulation of the petroleum sector.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>France : Subverting the African people</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/06/france-subverting-the-african-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/06/france-subverting-the-african-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Owei Lakemfa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yar'adua]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[WITH all its pretentions to international democracy, liberty and the brotherhood of man, France on Tuesday October 27, 2009 opened its presidential doors to Mauritanian coup plotter, General Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz. The General had on August 6, 2008 overthrown the democratically elected President, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bode George’s navigation to prison</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/04/bode-george%e2%80%99s-navigation-to-prison/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/04/bode-george%e2%80%99s-navigation-to-prison/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Owei Lakemfa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bode George]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prison]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=33938</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the maze of the woes the political elites have sunk the Nigerian people, good news comes our way only once in a while. Such was the case when the Supreme Court sent an usurper, Andy Uba packing from the Anambra State Government House and restored the legitimate administration of Peter Obi.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>No friends in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/30/no-friends-in-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/30/no-friends-in-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Owei Lakemfa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cruise missiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[THE only group that seems clear about what it is doing in Afganistan today is the Taliban.  The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation  (NATO) waits on the United States (US) which is itself confused, while the puppet Hamid Karzai regime, caught rigging elections, faces credibility problems and a run-off on November 7, 2009.]]></description>
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		<title>Immunity  for all by the year 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/28/immunity-for-all-by-the-year-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/28/immunity-for-all-by-the-year-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Owei Lakemfa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immunity clause]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
WE need to thank the Honourable Members of the House of Representatives who passed for second reading, the patriotic bill to deregulate the immunity clause. It is patently unjust and undemocratic for only the President, his Vice, state governors and their deputies to enjoy constitutional immunity.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>37</slash:comments>
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		<title>In the shadow of a saint</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/23/in-the-shadow-of-a-saint/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/23/in-the-shadow-of-a-saint/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Owei Lakemfa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Father Damian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I AM not a Catholic, was never one and may never be. But one of my
childhood heroes was a man called Father Damian. I am not sure whether in the innocence of childhood, I ever associated him with Catholicism.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>UN elections : Celebrating vanity</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/21/un-elections-celebrating-vanity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/21/un-elections-celebrating-vanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Owei Lakemfa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dynasty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[formula]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security Council]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=30938</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Owei Lakemfa
NIGERIA was “elected” into the 15- member United Nations (UN) Security Council last Friday and there was a big jubilation in government circles. It was hailed as proof of the country’s growing international status, thanks to President Umaru Yar’Adua’s outstanding leadership qualities.
Foreign Affairs Minister, Ojo Maduekwe, located our election partly in our peace-keeping [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Blessed are the peace makers</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/16/blessed-are-the-peace-makers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/16/blessed-are-the-peace-makers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Owei Lakemfa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghan war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peace Prize]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=29811</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Owei Lakemfa
THE  Nobel prize awarded to American President, Barack Obama  on October 9, 2009 was for peace but it has since turned into an international war of words. Ironically, the award news came to Obama while he was holding a war cabinet. It was over the Afghan war he inherited from his predecessor, the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Otegbeye: A debt of gratitude</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/14/otegbeye-a-debt-of-gratitude/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/14/otegbeye-a-debt-of-gratitude/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Owei Lakemfa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Convention Of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC)]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=29364</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MY generation and the younger generation may not be aware that we owe a debt of historical gratitude to Jeremiah Olatunji Otegbeye who passed away on Friday October 9, 2009.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>They’re officers and hooligans</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/09/they%e2%80%99re-officers-and-hooligans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/09/they%e2%80%99re-officers-and-hooligans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Owei Lakemfa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ECOWAS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=28301</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Owei Lakemfa
THE massacre was expected. It was just a question of time. The international community is still undecided what to do. The Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) has taken a step; it has sent a veteran coup plotter, President Blaise Campore of Burkina Faso to mediate.
Mediate what? Mediate between the massacred and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why I was not at Independence Day</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/07/why-i-was-not-at-independence-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/07/why-i-was-not-at-independence-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Owei Lakemfa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[49th Independence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuhu Ribadu]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=27858</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Owei Lakemfa
I WAS not at last Thursday’s 49th Independence celebrations held by our leaders. I know I was not missed. Almost all of us ordinary citizens were not there, either physically or in spirit. We were not missed. The important thing was that our leaders had fun, congratulated themselves and remembered to thank us [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Doyin Mahmoud : A patriot marches on</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/30/doyin-mahmoud-a-patriot-marches-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/30/doyin-mahmoud-a-patriot-marches-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Owei Lakemfa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doyin Mahmoud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Editor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soldiers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=26132</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WHEN I joined The Guardian newspapers in August 1983, I thought it was chaotic. We were grilled like soldiers. Every day we had to bring at least one story.]]></description>
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		<title>60 years of Chinese revolution: Why it was possible</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/25/60-years-of-chinese-revolution-why-it-was-possible/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/25/60-years-of-chinese-revolution-why-it-was-possible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Owei Lakemfa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese Revolution]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=25111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[THE Chinese Revolution which thrust a vast, backwater country into a super power will be 60 years next Thursday, October 1, 2009. China which housed a quarter of humanity, including 500 million peasants who were generally illiterate with no access to healthcare, electricity or schools, was forced on a diet of opium by Britain.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>The culture of governance</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/23/the-culture-of-governance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/23/the-culture-of-governance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Owei Lakemfa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cabinet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[professions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Owei Lakemfa
THE gale of sacking appointed political office holders is here again like the seasonal rain. An executive governor for whatever reason takes a decision to sack his cabinet or some appointed officer and simply goes on to implement it without thinking through the process and manner such a decision is to be implemented.
Ministers, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The difference between Museveni And Mugabe</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/18/the-difference-between-museveni-and-mugabe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/18/the-difference-between-museveni-and-mugabe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Owei Lakemfa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mugabe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Museveni]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[THE Ugandan capital, Kampala was  wracked by riots on September 11 and 12, 2009 in which 14 persons were listed dead, over 80 injured and more than 550 arrested.]]></description>
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		<title>The masses memorial for Gani</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/16/the-masses-memorial-for-gani/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/16/the-masses-memorial-for-gani/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Owei Lakemfa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[More tributes poured from the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR)  President Olasupo Ojo, the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) represented by Segun Shango, Dr Dipo Fashina of the Joint Action Forum (JAF) and the National Conscience Party (NCP) founded by Fawehinmi.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The way of nations</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/11/the-way-of-nations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/11/the-way-of-nations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Owei Lakemfa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gabon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE tragedy in Afghanistan continues with the massacre of 70 persons by NATO bombers for the crime of scooping fuel from two oil tankers, and the results of fraudulent national elections.]]></description>
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