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	<title>Vanguard &#187; Point of Order</title>
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		<title>Come let&#8217;s visit the NASS</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/15/come-lets-visit-the-nass/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/15/come-lets-visit-the-nass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[NASS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NASS is short for National Assembly. I am inviting you to the National Assembly tomorrow.  For the avoidance of doubt, tomorrow is Monday, November 16, 2009. The National Assembly?  It’s a big complex where you have, making law for our governance, 109 senators and 360 members of the House of Representatives.]]></description>
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		<title>The fixing of Mr Fix It</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/08/the-fixing-of-mr-fix-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/08/the-fixing-of-mr-fix-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Point of Order]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Action Group]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ So the crowd that had been captured as party men at a political rally was in fact a football crowd in a football field! Oh yes, we were being done in with a photo trick!  So when recently I read in the papers that there was going to be an Action Congress rally in Benin City and the PDP warned all and sundry that thugs would be imported into that arena and that the police should stop what might degenerate to a breakdown of law and order, I called my sister-in-law Safu who is a woman leader and told her what I had read in the papers.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>The dilemma of a coin</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/01/the-dilemma-of-a-coin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/01/the-dilemma-of-a-coin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Point of Order]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa Independent Television (AIT)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[THE coin in issue is Nigeria. A coin is said to have two sides, a head and a tail. The head does not and cannot make the coin; nor can the tail. We then usually say two sides of the same coin, meaning the head side and the tail side. I saw the Nigerian coin at work on October 23.]]></description>
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		<title>In search of more monarchs</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/25/in-search-of-more-monarchs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/25/in-search-of-more-monarchs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eribake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Point of Order]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[INEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monarchs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=31585</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[JUST last week, I was straining to present in a more palatable way the crass lawlessness we have exhibited in the operation of our laws. I wanted the proof of the pudding in that regard to be in the eating, more because I wanted to save face for us than that I had no facts and figures to back up the claim that we are an embarrassment to a world where the recognised method of accessing justice is through the rule of law.]]></description>
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		<title>The amnesty jackpot</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/19/the-amnesty-jackpot/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/19/the-amnesty-jackpot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Point of Order]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amnesty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The amnesty programme of President Umaru Yar’ Adua was a success. This is obviously his biggest achievement so far, even though in Nigeria it pays to withhold praise from politicians.]]></description>
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		<title>A country without laws</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/18/a-country-without-laws/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/18/a-country-without-laws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Point of Order]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[country]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A COUNTRY would not be a country if it was not anchored on laws. But a country can be described as one without laws where it has laws that are not enforced or that are enforced more in the breach than the observance.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>The destination of amnesty</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/11/the-destination-of-amnesty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/11/the-destination-of-amnesty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Point of Order]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=28713</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[But there is one other way he can grant reprieve, and that is if the person pardoned was concerned … with any offence created by an Act of the National Assembly. All the offences in the Criminal and Penal Codes are Acts of the National Assembly for which reprieve may occasion either because the one being let off had been convicted by a court of law or he had been accused of committing such an offence.  He does not even have to have been arraigned. Read section 175 (1) of the Constitution ten times.]]></description>
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		<title>So we are  now 49!</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/04/so-we-are-now-49/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/04/so-we-are-now-49/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eribake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Point of Order]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We called ourselves Otu-Ibo and that has stuck to date]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sins of the sons</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/27/sins-of-the-sons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/27/sins-of-the-sons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eribake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Point of Order]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ambassador to the United States of America]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[LET me reveal to you what went on in my mind when I read the unfortunate news about my friend Prof Tunde Adeniran being refused service on behalf of Nigeria as our ambassador to the United States of America because of what the son was supposed to have done.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Their constitution, our constitution</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/20/their-constitution-our-constitution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/20/their-constitution-our-constitution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eribake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Point of Order]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Republic of Nigeria]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=24032</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thereis increasing polarization of views about what they gave us and what we want. They refers to those who have governed this country, and we refers to the people, the citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The bone of contention is the Constitution in the context of what amendments the National Assembly wants to undertake and how  qualified they are to do so.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>A country without heroes</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/13/a-country-without-heroes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/13/a-country-without-heroes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eribake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Point of Order]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gani Fawehinmi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=22476</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[GANI Fawehinmi has left this part of the world he has been on and in for 71 years. All there is to say is how he faired. And that has been demonstrated since Saturday, September 5 when he passed on after a lonAg battle with an ailment we know little about worldwide, and we have refused to do even the little we can about here.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>The abuse of loyalty</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/06/the-abuse-of-loyalty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/06/the-abuse-of-loyalty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Point of Order]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Bank]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=20872</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[FOR many years now, I have been speaking about what I described as Segmented Loyalty. I will tell you why I am calling it to service today. We are in a deplorable economic mess. Never in the history of this country have we had so much demolition, in peace time, of mountain peaks to the low level of plateaus or even valleys.]]></description>
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		<title>Passing through the earth</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/30/passing-through-the-earth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/30/passing-through-the-earth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Holy Books.]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=19226</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh yes, I can understand the great outing of presenting four books and being hosted by my colleagues in the media. I have said how happy and grateful to them and to God I am. But I am told that I should equally be grateful and happy that someone died! I know we came and we must go, whether we like it or not. But that going has its pains, its pangs.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The power of the media</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/23/the-power-of-the-media/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/23/the-power-of-the-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eribake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Point of Order]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigerian Communications Commission]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=17634</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[IF you needed proof of how powerful the media is, it was right there for you to see for yourself when last week Thursday, August 20, the media came out in full force to make a statement, a statement of fact that without the media, what they show those who read them in print and listen to them on radio and watch them on television, no democracy anywhere in the world can work. Oh yes, it was a great and memorable outing.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>What the  lizard said</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/16/what-the-lizard-said/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/16/what-the-lizard-said/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Point of Order]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[THE lizard may have grown up amidst ungrateful people when he said that if no one would praise him for the feat of jumping from a high iroko tree and not dying, he would shake his head in self praise. So, when we see the lizard nodding its head in self praise, we look around for a tree it has jumped from or some other feat that needed songs of praise. ]]></description>
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		<title>Boko Haram as metaphor</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/09/boko-haram-as-metaphor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/09/boko-haram-as-metaphor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Boko Haram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamic militant]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=14516</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The precondition for the military to take part in quelling internal unrest seems now to be hidden and unannounced.  But that is what is happening, and has been happening and will continue to happen if we refuse to see the Boko Haram sect as the harbinger it is of a reaping we are entitled to for the total negligence of the duty imposed on government to  ensure the security and welfare of the citizens.]]></description>
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		<title>The war fronts of Yar&#8217;Adua</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/02/the-war-fronts-of-yaradua/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/02/the-war-fronts-of-yaradua/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Point of Order]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=13547</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In spite of massive collusive efforts to deny the fact, through what we have done to the process of choosing our leaders, the people of Nigeria retain sovereignty. Section 14 (2)(a) of the Constitution is unambiguous in making it loud and clear. It says sovereignty belongs to the people of Nigeria. Whatever powers are exercised by organs of government - legislative, executive or judicial - must be locatable in the constitution.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>The return of alarms</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/26/the-return-of-alarms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/26/the-return-of-alarms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alarms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military ruler]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=12020</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WHEN we started this journey on the democracy highway in 1999 and I began to monitor how we were doing, I sang the praises of the new deal, the joy of return to due process, to the orderly and ordered ways of doing things.]]></description>
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		<title>I saw Obama speak</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/19/i-saw-obama-speak/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/19/i-saw-obama-speak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political leader]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[But let me say that what I read from all the speeches was his regret that we do not seem to have discovered the joy in affecting positively the human condition. You see, we belong at a level of development where the human condition can be sacrificed to meet the greed of vested interests.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Taking on the monitor</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/12/taking-on-the-monitor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/12/taking-on-the-monitor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ombudsman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The ombudsman is a monitor of the observance of rules set in a polity for the operation of its affairs. The modern use of the term began in Sweden, according to Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia, with the Swedish Parliamentary Ombudsman instituted in 1809, to safeguard the rights of citizens by establishing a supervisory agency independent of the executive branch.]]></description>
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