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	<title>Vanguard &#187; Positive Letters</title>
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		<title>NIGER DELTA:  Those Who Dare Are Winning!</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/20/niger-delta-those-who-dare-are-winning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/20/niger-delta-those-who-dare-are-winning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We join millions of Nigerians in hailing your courageous and peace-encouraging decision to meet, last Saturday, with the MEND-appointed Aaron Team led by Admiral Okhai Mike Akhigbe, and comprising distinguished Nigerians like Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, retired military strategist, General Luke Kakadu Aprezi and Architect Denzil Amagbe Kentebe.]]></description>
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		<title>Crossing The Red Sea!</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/13/crossing-the-red-sea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/13/crossing-the-red-sea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Fellow-Nigerians,President Umoru Musa Yar’Adua may go down in history as the just Pharaoh that “facilitated” the emancipation of the Niger Delta [something the Balewas, Babangidas, Abachas, and Obasanjos tried, in vain, to achieve]  by simply listening to the true representatives of the region’s peoples and having the political courage to address the fundamental challenges of the region…or, at least, that is what we are all praying that he does…if the hawks in his kitchen cabinet will let him!]]></description>
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		<title>Who is Mr. President: Yar&#8217;Adua or Abbe?!</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/30/who-is-mr-president-yaradua-or-abbe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/30/who-is-mr-president-yaradua-or-abbe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positive Letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yar’Adua]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear President Yar’Adua,
This writer broke his writing-milk-teeth working with a little-sung icon of the Nigerian press, Christopher Maduaburochukwu Okolie; the young man who dared to import classy full-colour gloss into the realm of Nigerian media (which was hitherto dominated by the “dreary” but popular Spear and Drum magazines) with his revolutionary “NEWBREED” magazine (with the delectable Ms. Gloria Rhodes gracing its debut 1972 cover).]]></description>
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		<title>NIGER DELTA:  Awaiting Godot?!</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/23/niger-delta-awaiting-godot/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/23/niger-delta-awaiting-godot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positive Letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prince Tonye Princewill]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=31637</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Prince Tonye Princewill is a personable young man that has the ability to charm people even when he is telling them bitter truths, as all other members of President Umoru YarAdua’s Niger Delta Technical Committee, on which he served, learnt…sometimes to their chagrin]]></description>
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		<title>Mouthing new  post-amnesty levels</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/16/mouthing-new-post-amnesty-levels/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/16/mouthing-new-post-amnesty-levels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eribake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positive Letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amnesty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose”…William Shakespeare]]></description>
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		<title>Niger Delta Amnesty: Peace cannot be dictated!</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/25/niger-delta-amnesty-peace-cannot-be-dictated/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/25/niger-delta-amnesty-peace-cannot-be-dictated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positive Letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amnesty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Fellow Nigerians,
At a recently concluded socio-cultural event in Odi, Bayelsa State, Dr Timiebi Koripamo-Agary, who is one of the most trusted, most seasoned and most professional federal civil servants, and who is also a member of the Federal Government Committee on Amnesty and Rehabilitation, was quoted as saying: ‘It is time now for those who have carried arms for whatever reason to drop them and embrace peace, so that real peace and development can come in for our people.]]></description>
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		<title>Niger Delta: The impending military assault</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/18/niger-delta-the-impending-military-assault/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/18/niger-delta-the-impending-military-assault/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positive Letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assault]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For instance, the Ijaw territory was the center of commerce - renown for its trade in ivory, palm oil, and other natural resources. It was also a center of the African Atlantic slave trade. And for a period in its history, it had an independent diplomatic relations with European powers.]]></description>
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		<title>There is no bad peace</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/04/there-is-no-bad-peace/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/04/there-is-no-bad-peace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positive Letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tompolo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, we dedicate our column, POSITIVE LETTERS, to a very gerrmane communication penned by the now renowned Tompolo to President Umaru Yaradua. Shalom ]]></description>
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		<title>Should we Rebrand or MEND Nigeria?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/07/should-we-rebrand-or-mend-nigeria-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/07/should-we-rebrand-or-mend-nigeria-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positive Letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MEND]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You are probably cursing being born into this nation-space called Nigeria; a land where truth is turned on its head and even ministers of justice are at the forefront of promoting wholesale injustice with impunity…a land of the institutionalization of the twin evils of corruption and violence, even in the supposedly hallowed courts where God is worshipped, as we are daily reminded in the north’s regular orgies of religious violence.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Should we Rebrand or MEND Nigeria?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/31/should-we-rebrand-or-mend-nigeria-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/31/should-we-rebrand-or-mend-nigeria-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=13406</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You are probably cursing being born into this nation_space called Nigeria; a land where truth is turned on its head and even ministers of justice are at the forefront of promoting wholesale injustice with impunity…a land of the institutionalization of the twin evils of corruption and violence, even in the supposedly hallowed courts where God is worshipped, as we are daily reminded in the north’s regular orgies of religious violence.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>MEND, Atlas Cove and leading from the rear</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/24/does-yaradua-want-peace-in-the-niger-delta-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/24/does-yaradua-want-peace-in-the-niger-delta-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positive Letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=11713</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nobody faults Your Excellency’s chagrin at the Atlas Cove Jetty “affront” and the resultant strong call on the Niger Delta armed groups not to bring “war” into your area of security -jurisdiction. As Chief Security Officer of Lagos State (though this is a mere empty appellation without the concomitant executive powers that you would have in a true federation!) you probably did not see how else you could justify the oath you took to serve the people of Lagos aright.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Does Yar&#8217;Adua want peace in the Niger Delta?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/17/does-yaradua-want-peace-in-the-niger-delta/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/17/does-yaradua-want-peace-in-the-niger-delta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positive Letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prime Minister  Gordon  Brown]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=10397</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, we know it suited the ethos and practice of “Rule Britannia” for Britain to intentionally force non-complementary disparate entities together and call it “Nigeria” (thanks to a bored or drunk Mrs. Lugard).]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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		<title>Does Yar&#8217;Adua want peace in the Niger Delta</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/10/does-yaradua-want-peace-in/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/10/does-yaradua-want-peace-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positive Letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G8]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon  Brown]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=8767</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Please allow us to advise the G8 and President Yar’Adua on what needs to be done to bring about immediate peace in the Niger Delta region, and thus secure the oil and gas resources you all need: YAR’ADUA MUST IMMEDIATELY COMMENCE THE HOLISTIC IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON THE NIGER DELTA!!! Yar’Adua has not shown sincerity to the issues raised by Niger Delta peoples. He keeps contemptuously treating them like moronic babies who cannot tell shadow from reality.]]></description>
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		<title>Of benevolent dictatorship and Vision 20-20!</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/03/of-benevolent-dictatorship-and-vision-20-20/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/03/of-benevolent-dictatorship-and-vision-20-20/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positive Letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mullah Osama Bin  Laden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wole Soyinka]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By the way, if President Yar’Adua’s Amnesty does not take off until August 6th was the Nigerian Inspector-General of Police not committing a crime hobnobbing with self-confessed enemies of the state before that date? Should the Nigerian Bin Laden and others coming out of the cracks be allowed to move around freely?]]></description>
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		<title>After the Mayhem, what manner of Amnesty?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/19/after-the-mayhem-what-manner-of-amnesty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/19/after-the-mayhem-what-manner-of-amnesty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positive Letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amnesty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mayhem]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Great people quit the stage to resounding ovation, Mr. President! She is still deeply loved today by her people and by millions more throughout the world. Her dedication to her country and her personal concern for all people are legendary.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Yar&#8217;Adua&#8217;s Amnesty, Unfulfilled Promises and Henry Okah</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/12/yaraduas-amnesty-unfulfilled-promises-and-henry-okah/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/12/yaraduas-amnesty-unfulfilled-promises-and-henry-okah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positive Letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Shamsudeen Usman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PDP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[socialistic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a deliberate attempt by the government of Nigeria to impoverish and take away the resources of the people that God has blessed and put in a very difficult terrain”…Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi]]></description>
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