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	<title>Vanguard &#187; Talking Point</title>
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		<title>An amnesty dead on arrival</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/17/an-amnesty-dead-on-arrival/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/17/an-amnesty-dead-on-arrival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Talking Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amnesty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was always going to be problematic. That much was certain- from the moment the Federal Government made its offer of ‘amnesty’ to those we’re now obliged to call former militants of the Niger Delta. How, some had asked, do you give amnesty to an individual never found guilty of a crime?]]></description>
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		<title>The money-for-hand-back-for-ground politics of Anambra</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/10/the-money-for-hand-back-for-ground-politics-of-anambra/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/10/the-money-for-hand-back-for-ground-politics-of-anambra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Talking Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anambra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=35158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[THE race to the governorship election in Anambra, now fixed for February 6, 2010 by INEC, indicates things are not going to be easy in the State. Politics, since Nigeria’s latest experiment with her ‘nascent democracy’, has never been an easy affair in Anambra State.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Power show, wrong show</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/27/power-show-wrong-show/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/27/power-show-wrong-show/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Talking Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democratic rule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=32130</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What was that show of might before unarmed civilians all about? Why was it necessary for the Airforce to transport by road military hardware(?) that could be better airlifted? Where were their cargo planes?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>The risk we take</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/06/the-risk-we-take/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/06/the-risk-we-take/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Talking Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=27567</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[THERE is something definitely rotten about Nigeria which comes from the very top of governance. Considering the high concentration of power at the centre, such rot is bound to and does have spiralling effects on other members of society well beyond its point of origin.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>And who is after Aondoakaa?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/29/and-who-is-after-aondoakaa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/29/and-who-is-after-aondoakaa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Talking Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aondoakaa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rites]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=25951</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[HIS short, truculent neck and thick-set features are a cross between the looks of a buffalo and a rhinoceros. At close range (as I had during his visit to the High Court in Igbosere during the funeral rites for Gani), he seems uncompromising.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Watch it, Sanusi!</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/22/watch-it-sanusi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/22/watch-it-sanusi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eribake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Talking Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lamido Sanusi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=24492</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[DURING the live screening of Lamido Sanusi’s confirmatory appearance before the Senate, last June, I was in a friend’s office. My friend had a visitor, an ex-banker now PR practitioner, who had professional knowledge of the Central Bank Governor. They had worked together at the United Bank for Africa. She had very good things to say about his competence as a banker and knowledge of the banking sector.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>As Gani dances home today</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/15/as-gani-dances-home-today/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/15/as-gani-dances-home-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Talking Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gani]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=22954</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[AFTER nearly two years of waiting, two nail-biting years during which one dreaded when the news would finally come following the initial announcement of his body’s succumbing to the onslaught of an unusual lung cancer for a non-smoker- after this long wait, the news came at last on Saturday, September 5, that the cock had finally crowed for Gani Fawehinmi.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Killer midwives of Nigeria’s education</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/08/killer-midwives-of-nigeria%e2%80%99s-education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/08/killer-midwives-of-nigeria%e2%80%99s-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Talking Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teachers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=21416</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[THE persistent rot in Nigeria’s education sector is nowhere about to end. If anything, the country’s education is set for more bashing as the National Union of Teachers, the umbrella body of primary and secondary school teachers in the country, gave notice of a strike that began last week.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>The CBN’s list of infamy</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/01/the-cbn%e2%80%99s-list-of-infamy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/01/the-cbn%e2%80%99s-list-of-infamy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Talking Point]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=20246</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[YOU'VE no doubt seen it by now. Perhaps you’ve turned the names over and over again in your mind and have finally committed them to memory. And you sure should, and even consider yourself privileged to have seen this day in which you were given a sneak preview, just a peep really, at the faces of Nigeria’s problem children.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Ribadu in Lamido Sanusi</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/25/the-ribadu-in-lamido-sanusi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/25/the-ribadu-in-lamido-sanusi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Talking Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lamido Sanusi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ribadu]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=18171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[THERE is something  about the new Central Bank Governor, Lamido Sanusi, that reminds me of the former Chairman of the EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu. First there is that physical resemblance, a lanky, almost austere frame. They both look fragile and do not cut the burly picture of your typical Nigerian executive.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hear Yar’Adua’s slogan; see Fashola’s work</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/18/hear-yar%e2%80%99adua%e2%80%99s-slogan-see-fashola%e2%80%99s-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/18/hear-yar%e2%80%99adua%e2%80%99s-slogan-see-fashola%e2%80%99s-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Talking Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fashola]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=16537</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[THERE are few qualities to define a purposeful, goal-oriented leadership as clear-thinking, careful planning and execution. The amount of these qualities a leader and/or government possesses should at most times be indicative of their/its preparedness or otherwise for leadership]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Re-negotiating violence</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/11/re-negotiating-violence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/11/re-negotiating-violence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Talking Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sardauna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=15065</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By this I mean Nigerians from the North-West and North-East of this country. What I must now call a lazy way of explaining this apparently well-organised and outer-directed violence, is to attribute it to joblessness, poverty or any of those social vices and disjunctions we are too quick to identify as being at the root of the violence. Poverty or joblessness is not peculiar to the North.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Who funds  Nigerian elections?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/07/who-funds-nigerian-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/07/who-funds-nigerian-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Talking Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barrack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=18664</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The number of political murders has reduced, and the culture of following due process in the resolution of political and other conflicts is being nurtured. Still, it is doubtful if all the election petitions in the world, assuming they are credibly conducted, can shovel up all the mess dumped on us in 2007.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Yar’Adua: The hole in the zero of nothing</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/28/yar%e2%80%99adua-the-hole-in-the-zero-of-nothing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/28/yar%e2%80%99adua-the-hole-in-the-zero-of-nothing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Talking Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Physicians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=12524</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Various sectors of the economy are on strike or about to start one; people are hungry and angry. How does this government propose to lead Nigeria out of this state of unrelieving pain? It says one thing today and another tomorrow, ambles forward an inch and engages the reverse gear for a mile, almost in the same breath.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Development-compliant corruption and graft-resilient growth (2)</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/21/development-compliant-corruption-and-graft-resilient-growth-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/21/development-compliant-corruption-and-graft-resilient-growth-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Talking Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transcorp PLC]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=10872</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[They grew organically and are waxing stronger. We all know that the poorly conceived and hastily created contraption called Transcorp PLC has not grown much since its birth. The question now is : What do we do then? How do we replicate the Korean paradigm? Here is how. The government must create a level playing field for Nigerian companies.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reading Obama’s visit to Ghana</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/14/reading-obama%e2%80%99s-visit-to-ghana/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/14/reading-obama%e2%80%99s-visit-to-ghana/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Talking Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=9574</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet, the present administration chose to make light of the whole matter, pretending that a visit from America’s first black president was no more or, perhaps, was worth less than a jaunt to a PDP retreat in Obudu.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Development-compliant corruption and graft-resilient growth (1)</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/07/development-compliant-corruption-and-graft-resilient-growth-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/07/development-compliant-corruption-and-graft-resilient-growth-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Talking Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=7759</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is there anything like zero-corruption? What initiatives do we adopt to reduce, control and manage corruption whilst we pursue policies and programmes aimed at accelerating our pace of growth and development?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>A farewell to arms?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/30/a-farewell-to-arms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/30/a-farewell-to-arms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Talking Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asari Dokubo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=6113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not many Nigerians would disagree with Dokubo’s claim, knowing Obasanjo for the kind of wily fox he was. Dokubo has been, more or less, tamed so that the recent spat between him and the intelligence department during which he was detained (?) might be a baiting trick to see if there is any fire left in him.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mimiko’s burden</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/23/mimiko%e2%80%99s-burden/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/23/mimiko%e2%80%99s-burden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Talking Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adams Oshiomole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electoral Tribunal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olusegun Mimiko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Professor Wole Soyinka]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=4417</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[He came into office with a lot of goodwill, a goodwill which extended beyond Ondo State as was evident when he made a late appearance, days after being sworn-in, at the Obafemi Awolowo Centenary Lecture that was delivered by Professor Wole Soyinka at the NIIA in March.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Finally, justice from America</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/16/finally-justice-from-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/16/finally-justice-from-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[coup-plot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Saro-Wiwa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sani Abacha]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it is even time to question the euphoria that has followed what may seem like the exaggerated importance of the mere rap on the offending wrist of oil multinational, Shell, by the American court that heard the suit brought by the families of the slain Ogoni activists.]]></description>
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