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	<title>Vanguard News &#187; The Orbit</title>
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		<title>Fanfare of drums for Ojukwu in Atlanta</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mbgolu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great masquerade begins his final journey homeward towards  the now open door of the rising sun. This is what it looks like from this past week, as Nigerians – particularly the Igbo commence the final funeral ceremonies across the globe, wherever they are to be found, in honour of their great war leader, General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu. ]]></description>
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		<title>Time to restructure the  Nigerian Police</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/time-to-restructure-the-nigerian-police/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ojiego</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States of America gets it most of the time. As a federal state, it has developed a highly organized and systematic administrative federalism that permits it to function like a smooth, well-oiled machine. I have always said that Nigeria could learn and incorporate some of the finest attributes of the US system, while of course learning from its equally deep flaws, and thus not re-invent the wheel either way. ]]></description>
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		<title>Of democracy &amp; terrorism</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/of-democracy-terrorism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ojiego</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A great and impenetrable pall has fallen of Nigeria. It is the pall of violence and division. Nigerians have known for a long time that its soul is broken into many disparate fragments; as many in fact as the number of ethnicities in this country. ]]></description>
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		<title>Towards a Green Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/towards-a-green-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The president flew out to South Africa just as the streets became hot last week and not before he dropped a bombshell. In a church service at Abuja, Dr. Jonathan had declared that his cabinet, Nigeria’s National Assembly, the Nigerian Armed Forces and the Nigerian Intelligence Services have all been infiltrated by the terrorist group, the Boko Haram. ]]></description>
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		<title>Badluck Jonathan?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/badluck-jonathan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jonathan administration truly gave Nigerians a left-handed gift for the New Year. Still reeling from the Christmas day bombing, Nigerians were hardly prepared for the surreptitious and final withdrawal of the so-called oil subsidy. ]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas, and an Ode to midlife</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/christmas-and-an-ode-to-midlife-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/christmas-and-an-ode-to-midlife-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nnamdiojiego</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a Christmas child. No, I was not born on Christmas day – but an exact week to Christmas – on the 18th of December – that last week of active shopping and frenzied last minutes preparation for Christmas celebrants. So imagine Nigeria on the 18th of December, 1966. Two coups had taken place earlier that year – one in January and the other on July.]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas, and an Ode to midlife</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a Christmas child. No, I was not born on Christmas day – but an exact week to Christmas – on the 18th of December – that last week of active shopping and frenzied last minutes preparation for Christmas celebrants. So imagine Nigeria on the 18th of December, 1966. Two coups had taken place earlier that year – one in January and the other on July. ]]></description>
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		<title>FG is playing chicken with oil subsidies</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/fg-is-playing-chicken-with-oil-subsidies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since 1985 when the former military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida adopted the IMF economic model in Nigeria, the issue of “fuel subsidies” has become recurrent in Nigeria’s annual economic grammar. In 1989 and 1990, Nigerian students led a nation-wide protest against the anti-SAP policies of the military government, one of whose cardinal thrusts was the partial removal of oil subsidies. ]]></description>
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		<title>A nation and her discontents</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/a-nation-and-her-discontents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week from Abeokuta, former president Olusegun Obasanjo, expressed fears about imminent mass revolt as a consequence of the criminally high rate of youth unemployment in Nigeria. Obasanjo is afraid that this revolt might lead to Nigeria’s equivalent of the Arab Spring. The former president has good reasons to fear, and indeed, he should be very, very afraid.]]></description>
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		<title>Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu (1933-2011)</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/chukwuemeka-odumegwu-ojukwu-1933-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/chukwuemeka-odumegwu-ojukwu-1933-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu died last weekend. His death brings to a certain climax the drama of a true, modern Nigerian epic. Olusegun Obasanjo was right this time in describing Ojukwu’s death as “the end of an era.” At the passing of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu described Zik as “the Alpha and the Omega of modern Nigeria” just as he characterized Obafemi Awolowo as “the best president Nigeria never had,” thus  melding paradox with hyperbole in an equal alchemy of mystery.]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria in a salad bowl</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/nigeria-in-a-salad-bowl/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/nigeria-in-a-salad-bowl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a week of highwire events, there often is for the columnist, the feeling of standing lingeringly before a salad bar or a buffet of assorted cuisines. There’s much to be had, but alas, only so much can fit into the neat frame of our bodies in spite of our desires.]]></description>
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		<title>The president and the Senate Square off</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/the-president-and-the-senate-square-off-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/the-president-and-the-senate-square-off-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, the Senate took up the gauntlet last week and threatened to call a vote of no confidence on the president for what they have generally perceived as his lack of serious engagement with the national security situation. Specifically, the senators were up in arms with the administration’s handling of the Boko Haram terrorist killings, and the heightened general insecurity of life in Nigeria. ]]></description>
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		<title>The president and the Senate Square off</title>
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		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/the-president-and-the-senate-square-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, the Senate took up the gauntlet last week and threatened to call a vote of no confidence on the president for what they have generally perceived as his lack of serious engagement with the national security situation. ]]></description>
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		<title>More on T.A.Orji</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/more-on-t-a-orji/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/more-on-t-a-orji/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fascist governor of Abia State last week caused to be made clear and unambiguous, through reports published in Nigerian newspapers, that the Abia State government under his administration will not back down or rescind the order to sack three thousand so-called “non-indigenes” from the Abia State civil service. ]]></description>
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		<title>No new state in the South-East</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/10/no-new-state-in-the-south-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu,a member of the conservative Peoples Democratic Party has called for the creation of a new state in the South-East. Iwuanyanwu, a businessman and financier of the incumbent governing party in Nigeria made this call at his country home in Imo State when some members of his party, of which he is a trustee, came to visit him and pay appropriate condolence on the recent loss of his wife who had just been interred following obsequies.]]></description>
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