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		<title>Nigeria is not here …..Yes, I know</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Different strokes for different folks.The NLC tried to make us believe that going on strike was the best way of making the government to restore the fuel subsidy. I believed them.]]></description>
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		<title>A prayer for our league</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nnamdiojiego</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week end, the Nigeria Premier League for the 2012/2013 season kicked off, albeit unexpectedly.]]></description>
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		<title>……Of earrings, nyanga football and Yakubu</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While exchanging compliments of the season with the General Secretary of the NFF we thought it wise to pray for a year that should make us forget the night mare that was 2011. That is why one of my favorite wishes for the new year came from my friend Ibn Mohammed, who prayed for positive inputs from all of us, towards the betterment of our sports especially football in the coming year.]]></description>
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		<title>Beach Soccer, Eket hope and morah as metaphor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nnamdiojiego</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sincerely apologise to my readers who have queried my absence from these pages in the past three weeks. I must say that I got so engrossed in the business of developing sports in this country, that I could not put my thoughts together in print.]]></description>
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		<title>So much ado about professionals&#8230;..</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/so-much-ado-about-professionals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[News coming in from the Morocco camp of the Nigerian U-23 camp had it that whenever a foreign based player arrived, there was so much jubilation in camp.]]></description>
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		<title>The onerous task before Coach Keshi</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/the-onerous-task-before-coach-keshi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about the daunting task Stephen Keshi faced against Botswana, a quality opposition which unfortunately we were not in a position to appreciate before the tie.]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Botswana &#8230;. Remember</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 23:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday’s friendly match had hardly ended when I had calls and text messages from colleagues asking for my opinion on what they believed was “ same of the same”]]></description>
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		<title>What a week?…..</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It all started with my appointment by CAF as one of  the four General Coordinators for next year’s Nation’s Cup to be hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. By implication I was to be part of the draws to be hosted by Equatorial Guinea in Malabo.]]></description>
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		<title>Falcons: Countdown to tears, disaster</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/10/falcons-countdown-to-tears-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/10/falcons-countdown-to-tears-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We bring to you, an exclusive minute by minute account of the Super Falcons ouster in Yaounde, by an eye witness.
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		<title>The future is&#8230;  Ofoegbu Gloria</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/10/the-future-is-ofoegbu-gloria/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/10/the-future-is-ofoegbu-gloria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday in Yaounde I was held hostage by friends who had my contact details. General Emmanuel Okaro, Mr Linus Mba, Mike Idoko, Onochie Anibeze, Godwin Enakhena, Stephen of Akwa Ibom Broadcasting Corporation by calls and texts were bombarding me by the minute wanting updates on the crucial match between the Falcons and the Cameroun Female team.]]></description>
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		<title>Matters arising&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/10/matters-arising/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/10/matters-arising/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I had an alibi cast in iron. Last week I argued that since I was out of the country on that fateful day, I was not in a position to comment on our ouster from the Nations Cup.]]></description>
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		<title>Queuing behind  Enyimba, Sunshine</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/10/queuing-behind-enyimba-sunshine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/10/queuing-behind-enyimba-sunshine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 23:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you expect me to write today about the Abuja dis grace last Saturday, then permit me to disappoint you. First of all, at the time that match was going on, I was on CAF duty in far away Tunisia. ]]></description>
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		<title>One visa denial  too many</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/09/one-visa-denial-too-many/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/09/one-visa-denial-too-many/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From September 1-11 2011 in Ravenna Italy, Nigerians sat through a harrowing experience as their decimated beach soccer team, faced a herculean task in the 5th FIFA beach Soccer competition.]]></description>
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		<title>Many things I don&#8217;t understand&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/09/many-things-i-dont-understand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/09/many-things-i-dont-understand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I got a query from my boss Onochie Anibeze. He was not happy that I did not write. He sent me a text that had to do with me disappointing my readers, those who bought the paper on Monday expecting to read me, only to be disappointed.]]></description>
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		<title>The future of African football</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/09/the-future-of-african-football/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/09/the-future-of-african-football/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday, September 1, As the Air Malawi Boeing 727- 300 series commenced its final descent into Chileka International airport in Blantyre, Malawi, a feeling of conquest enveloped me. (The six number of African countries I am yet to visit has now been reduced to five.)]]></description>
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