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	<title>Vanguard News &#187; Sweet and Sour</title>
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		<title>Mbu &#8211; memories and reflections</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adekunle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN 2010, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Nigeria’s liberation from British colonialism, I interviewed Dr. (Ambassador) Matthew Tawo (M.T) Mbu, the grand old national icon who passed away abroad earlier on this week. He had been the Minister of State for Defence on October 1, 1960 and I wanted to hear his opinions about the Independence era and its aftermath.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Sanusi’s blunder</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adekunle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAST week, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Governor of the Central Bank, ascribed the emergence of Boko Haram to poverty…and highlighted the fact that the funds that Northern states get from the Federation Account are paltry compared to the funds received by oil-producing states.]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on a nightmare</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adekunle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Muslim friend who lives in  Sokoto sadly tells me that fear of Boko Haram is the beginning of wisdom nowadays…and that the organisation has gradually acquired a legendary status in the North and is widely regarded as a highly efficient terror machine that operates with deadly precision and may even possess supernatural powers and is bringing the Nigerian State to its knees. ]]></description>
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		<title>Postscripts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adekunle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LET’S hope that President Jonathanand his allies have learned a few humbling lessons from a totally avoidable strike that exposed a Government that has become increasingly unpopular to global embarrassment.]]></description>
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		<title>Tribute to a fantastic father</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/tribute-to-a-fantastic-father/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wonderful father, Ignatius Suage Kogbara, OON, died exactly l0 years ago, on January l3, 2002. And we who knew and loved him have never quite recovered from the emotional trauma we experienced when he left us behind.]]></description>
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		<title>Crisis accumulaltion</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/crisis-accumulaltion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I CLEARLY recall President Goodluck Jonathan standing up at an Independence Day service a couple of months ago and informing his audience that he was not a lion, tiger, army general, Egyptian Pharaoh or Nebuchadnezzar (the neo-Babylonian king who conquered Jerusalem and sent the Jews into exile). ]]></description>
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		<title>Man of the Year</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/man-of-the-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As 2011 draws to a close, it seems appropriate to look back in anger or approval at some of the people who have, individually or as part of groups, made the past l2 months better or worse in various ways and in various parts of the world.]]></description>
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		<title>Messing up the message</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the massive row about fuel subsidy removal rages from one discussion arena to another, the thing that strikes me most forcibly is the sheer weakness of the Federal Government’s communication efforts.]]></description>
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		<title>A terrible shock</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NASIR and Hadiza El-Rufai have just lost Yasmin, their eldest child. She passed away in the UK at the tender age of 25 last weekend; and I’d like to briefly reminisce about the cute kid she once was and the lovely lady she became.]]></description>
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		<title>A rare opportunity</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/a-rare-opportunity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARIA Cecilia Toledo de Schmillen, the glamorous opera singer wife of a former German Ambassador to Nigeria, established AMEMUSO (the Abuja Metropolitan Music Society) and AMEMUSITO (a subsidiary for youngsters) while she and her husband, Joachim, were based in the Federal Capital. ]]></description>
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		<title>The National Awards saga</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/the-national-awards-saga/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/the-national-awards-saga/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE internet and newspapers are awash with bitter criticisms from journalists and members of the general public who strongly object to most or all of the names that made it onto the President’s National Awards list.]]></description>
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		<title>Terrible influences</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/terrible-influences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DR. Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson’s personal physician, has just been convicted of involuntary manslaughter after a tense, drama-filled trial during which he was often depicted as an irresponsible caregiver who administered a lethal dose of a powerful anaesthetic (Propofol) that killed his star patient.]]></description>
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		<title>Let it be!</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/let-it-be-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, has just failed in its bid to nullify the results of last April’s presidential poll because the Election Petition Tribunal dismissed the CPC’s case on the grounds that it lacks merit.]]></description>
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		<title>Let it be!</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/let-it-be/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/let-it-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, has just failed in its bid to nullify the results of last April’s presidential poll because the Election Petition Tribunal dismissed the CPC’s case on the grounds that it lacks merit.]]></description>
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		<title>Did it have to end so badly?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/10/did-it-have-to-end-so-badly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/10/did-it-have-to-end-so-badly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I WAS in the United States when Moammar Gaddafi finally went to meet his Maker last week. And even though Americans have been his staunchest adversaries over the years, the Americans around me did not jubilate because they were so profoundly shocked by the savage manner in which he passed away.]]></description>
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