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		<title>Miscellaneous thoughts on the state of our nation</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/02/miscellaneous-thoughts-on-the-state-of-our-nation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adekunle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN the last two weeks or thereabout I have been compelled to address a matter that I’m sure columnists and others who frequently write have to face: the question of what subject to write on. In the early hours of Wednesday 25th of January, I had woken up to see the live broadcast of President Barack Obama’s third State of the Union address.]]></description>
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		<title>Mohammed Abubakar &#8211;  another tainted choice?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/02/mohammed-abubakar-another-tainted-choice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adekunle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE job of appointing public officers in Nigeria is by no means an easy task. More often than not what comes into consideration are factors other than merit. A situation Goodluck Jonathan might have found himself in the man he finally settled upon to replace Afiz Ringim as the Inspector General of Police.]]></description>
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		<title>A curious escape</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/a-curious-escape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ojiego</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THESE are desperate times for the Jonathan Administration and the government might do worse than seeking desperate solutions. Although the streets might be free of protesting Nigerians, the smoke from the bonfires made by them to register their opposition to the careless increase in the pump price of petrol is nowhere near being cleared.]]></description>
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		<title>A week of fuel fury</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/a-week-of-fuel-fury/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DID President Jonathan play Nero last week, fiddled while Rome burned? Was he at anytime in South Africa to celebrate the centenary of the African National Congress when Nigeria was held in the throes of a paralysing strike to restore oil subsidy? ]]></description>
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		<title>Who sows the wind&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/who-sows-the-wind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE reactions to the New Year’s Day increment in fuel price are generally the same across the country and are by no means friendly. If anything they promise to be more hostile and aggravating as  the days go by. After making it determinedly through Christmas in spite of violent attacks from desperate groups like Boko Haram, Nigerians  must have hoped for some quiet, stress-free New Year’s Day. ]]></description>
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		<title>Time to think big and out of the box</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/time-to-think-big-and-out-of-the-box/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/time-to-think-big-and-out-of-the-box/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nnamdiojiego</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LIKE an evil odour, the fever of death caused by Boko haram is still grimly spreading across the country with death toll from its cowardly Christmas attack still rising...]]></description>
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		<title>A debate and two deaths</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/a-debate-and-two-deaths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOR the very first time since his political career assumed national dimension, Goodluck Jonathan is showing he could be a determined person if the need arose. For quite a long while, the President has shown himself as someone  ready to capitulate before any determined opposition. ]]></description>
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		<title>On the gay rights issue</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/on-the-gay-rights-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A LOT of heat with little or no light has been generated by the gay rights bill before the National Assembly. The general impression if one is to go by media reports is that most Nigerians are against same sex relations to say nothing of same sex marriage. ]]></description>
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		<title>Abuja, Nigeria&#8217;s divided capital city</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/abuja-nigerias-divided-capital-city/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/abuja-nigerias-divided-capital-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I AM not a frequent visitor to Abuja and on the few occasions I’ve been to our capital city since General Ibrahim Babangida  hurriedly jumpstarted the transfer of Nigeria’s administrative capital from Lagos following the June 12 troubles of the mid 1990s, memories of my visit have always been dim. ]]></description>
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		<title>Last of the titans?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/last-of-the-titans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE last couple of weeks have been period of obituaries in Nigeria. Two prominent Nigerians who had in their different ways transformed the political and professional landscape of the country passed on. ]]></description>
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		<title>A hasty farewell</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/a-hasty-farewell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/a-hasty-farewell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ALTHOUGH much like an overdue prophesy but when it finally came, the ouster of Farida Waziri still happened rather suddenly.]]></description>
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		<title>Facts and fallacies of  a cashless Lagos</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/facts-and-fallacies-of-a-cashless-lagos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/facts-and-fallacies-of-a-cashless-lagos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TALKING Point this week features a piece which, I hope, would present a welcome diversion from the often-depressing focus on Boko Haram and other aggravating excesses of our politicians. It is from one of the more devoted followers of the column and it throws light on an important aspect of the financial sector.]]></description>
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		<title>A bloody Eid gift</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/a-bloody-eid-gift/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/a-bloody-eid-gift/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AT this stage even the most starry-eyed Nigerian must admit that the Nigerian state represented by the government of President Goodluck Jonathan is at the point of capitulating before the terror tactics of the fringe Boko-Haram group.]]></description>
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		<title>Jonathan: How far can luck go?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/jonathan-how-far-can-luck-go/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/jonathan-how-far-can-luck-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AS is the custom in parts of Nigeria where the book on a deceased person is not considered closed until what is called the ‘final’ or ‘second’ burial is done, victory at an election is not complete until it has been declared at the relevant election petition tribunal. ]]></description>
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		<title>Tinubu: Papa doc(ked)</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/tinubu-papa-docked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE kwata between former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, and the Code of Conduct Bureau appears to be taking a messy turn with the reported snubbing of the VP, Namadi Sambo, who had been on official visit to Osun by Rauf Aregbesola over the PDP’s alleged failure to allow Tinubu’s supporters into the venue of his trial last week. It’s a big fight the ACN insists the PDP is stage-managing for purely political reasons.]]></description>
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