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	<title>Vanguard &#187; People &amp; Politics</title>
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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>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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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Udenwa lost in action as usual</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/12/udenwa-lost-in-action-as-usual/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/12/udenwa-lost-in-action-as-usual/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Udenwa]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=35574</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[POOR leadership in Nigeria starts from picking the team list. Nigerian leaders have rarely demonstrated visionary thoroughness in choosing the people with whom to work.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Abia’s off-line amnesty offer</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/05/abia%e2%80%99s-off-line-amnesty-offer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/05/abia%e2%80%99s-off-line-amnesty-offer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amnesty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[AT a recent public ceremony in Ngwa land, the Governor of Abia State, Chief Theodore Orji, declared his readiness to offer amnesty to repentant kidnappers.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bode George is “smelling rod”</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/02/bode-george-is-%e2%80%9csmelling-rod%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/02/bode-george-is-%e2%80%9csmelling-rod%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bode George]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kirikiri Prison]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=33427</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[THERE are two local expressions synonymous with being behind bars that I know. The first is “smelling rod”. The second is “eating beans”.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>‘Our electoral process requires total overhaul’</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/01/%e2%80%98our-electoral-process-requires-total-overhaul%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/01/%e2%80%98our-electoral-process-requires-total-overhaul%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amnesty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[annulments]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=33448</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1999, a lot of factors came into play and metamorphosed into the present style and structure of today’s political dispensation; the successive election annulments by the IBB regime, with the last one of June 12, 1993 which left a lot of cynicism among the beleaguered elitist political class.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>“Arise, O compatriots…” (Booooo!)</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/29/%e2%80%9carise-o-compatriots%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d-booooo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/29/%e2%80%9carise-o-compatriots%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d-booooo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civic debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world cup]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=32575</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[THAT was the second time it was happening. When the Nigerian National Anthem was played before the commencement of the World Cup qualifier between Nigeria and Mozambique in Abuja on Saturday, October 10, 2009 , rather than obeying Nigeria ’s call, a large section of the football fans booed.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Let us deregulate now!</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/26/let-us-deregulate-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/26/let-us-deregulate-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deregulate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electricity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=31958</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[TO deregulate the oil sector or not to deregulate it is an issue. When to do so is even more of an issue. The logic of deregulation is beginning to catch on, even among sections of organised Labour. The success of the liberalised telecoms sector is a very persuasive example to cite.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hassan Lawal, failed minister</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/22/hassan-lawal-failed-minister/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/22/hassan-lawal-failed-minister/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[highways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minister of Labour and Productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[track record]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=31170</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ochereome Nnanna
DR. Mohammed Hassan Lawal, the Honourable Minister for Works is an experienced member of the Federal cabinet. He was one of the very few ministers that the Yar’ Adua regime inherited from the Olusegun Obasanjo cabinet. Under Obasanjo, he was the Minister of Labour and Productivity.
When Yar’ Adua assumed power he was reappointed [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>A premeditated fraud</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/15/a-premeditated-fraud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/15/a-premeditated-fraud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fraud]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=29581</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[BEFORE a fraudulent act succeeds two conditions must be met. The first is that the prey must be desperately in need and willing do anything to meet that need.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Bayo Ohu milestone</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/12/a-bayo-ohu-milestone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/12/a-bayo-ohu-milestone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abayomi Ogundeji]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Godwin Agbroko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[murder]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=28921</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ochereome Nnanna
FOR  years, the tragic absurdity persisted. Nobody knows the number of people who lost their lives as a result of it. Someone is shot by his enemies or opportunistic gunmen or is caught in a cross-fire.
He is still breathing. Good Samaritans (Nigerians) rush him to the nearest hospital where people who were trained [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bi-Courtney’s GAT “invasion”</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/08/bi-courtney%e2%80%99s-gat-%e2%80%9cinvasion%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/08/bi-courtney%e2%80%99s-gat-%e2%80%9cinvasion%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Airport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bi-Courtney Air Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Aviation Terminal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murtala Muhammed Airport]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=28068</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When the story of Bi-Courtney Air Services’ take-over bid of the General Aviation Terminal (GAT) hit newspaper front pages about a fortnight ago, my initial impulse was to support the sentiments being propped up by the various unions operating at the airport.]]></description>
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		<title>Sorry for my country at 49</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/01/sorry-for-my-country-at-49/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/01/sorry-for-my-country-at-49/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=26391</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ON October 1, 1960, Nigeria was in festive mood. The day had come at last. The British colonial rulers were going home. The Union Jack was coming down and the Green-White-Green, the most rhapsodic colour which portended a future of untrammelled economic possibilities and prosperity as well political stability, was going up.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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		<title>Anambra’s three big SONs</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/28/anambra%e2%80%99s-three-big-sons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/28/anambra%e2%80%99s-three-big-sons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anambra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[governor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tai Solarin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=25707</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[FORMER Vice President of Nigeria, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, once described the late Tai Solarin as “an illiterate”. Are you shocked? How can one of Nigeria’s most refined gentlemen in the political arena who is not known for the use of strong language even under severe pressure describe one of Nigeria’s most outstanding educationists and social critics as “illiterate”? Let Ekwueme himself answer the question.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Onovo fails polygraph test</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/24/onovo-fails-polygraph-test/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/24/onovo-fails-polygraph-test/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Onovo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polygraph]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=24957</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A POLYGRAPH machine is often called a “lie-detector”. In most countries with advanced legal traditions, you cannot obtain conviction against an accused person based on a failed polygraph test.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>40</slash:comments>
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		<title>What if they caught Egwu?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/21/what-if-they-caught-egwu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/21/what-if-they-caught-egwu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kidnap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ransom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Security Services]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=24247</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ochereome Nnanna
LAST Friday, September 18, 2009, most Nigerian newspapers led with the bone-chilling disclosure by the State Security Services (SSS) of a plot to kidnap two ministers, collect ransom and kill one of them. The ministers were Dr. Sam Egwu (Education) and Prince Adetokunbo Kayode (Labour and Productivity). Three students of the University of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Presidency in murky waters</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/17/a-presidency-in-murky-waters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/17/a-presidency-in-murky-waters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Party of Nigeria (NPN)]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=23342</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[DURING the Second Republic, the Alhaji Shehu Shagari government was widely ill-reputed to be “corrupt”. But the man in the hot seat himself was also widely reputed to be “saintly”.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gani is victory in defeat</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/14/gani-is-victory-in-defeat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/14/gani-is-victory-in-defeat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gani]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=22736</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[GANI Fawehinmi was a special Nigerian both in life and death. Many people were born to be copycats. They abound everywhere, particularly among so-called opinion leaders. They are unable to produce unique and insightful ideas. But because they have the gift of the gab and the elevated platform to demonstrate it, they pass for intelligent or intellectual people.]]></description>
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		<title>Farida still looks unconvincing</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/07/farida-still-looks-unconvincing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/07/farida-still-looks-unconvincing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mrs Farida Waziri]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=21170</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[May be the fault is not hers but rather that of those who expect the EFCC Chairman (whoever he or she is) to be another Nuhu Ribadu.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tompolo and the River Niger</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/03/tompolo-and-the-river-niger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/03/tompolo-and-the-river-niger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tompolo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[CHIEF Government Ekpemupolo, also known as Tompolo, has come out of his hiding place into which he went when the Joint Task Force (JTF) destroyed his Camp Five in Gbaramatu Kingdom.]]></description>
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