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	<title>Vanguard &#187; The Orbit</title>
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		<title>On Ojukwu and war</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/15/on-ojukwu-and-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/15/on-ojukwu-and-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ojukwu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[WHEN Odumegwu-Ojukwu sneezes, the nation catches cold. That is to be expected. General Ojukwu showed his paces in war. He led one of the most famous wars of the late 20th century. General Ojukwu led the people of the former Eastern Nigeria with its majority Igbo population in a war in self-defence when they became targets of a genocidal rage.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>China in Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/01/china-in-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/01/china-in-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[IN 1890, the French statesman Jules Francois Camille Ferry wrote, “an irresistible movement is bearing the great nations of Europe towards the conquest of fresh territories. It is like a huge steeplechase into the unknown…whole continents are being annexed…especially the huge black continent so full of fierce mysteries and vague hopes.”]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Restoring Nigeria will require hard choices</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/24/restoring-nigeria-will-require-hard-choices/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/24/restoring-nigeria-will-require-hard-choices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Orbit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[LAST week, the famous Nigerian novelist, Chinua Achebe received an unlikely guest at his home in the Catskills. Nuhu Ribadu, Nigeria’s former anti-corruption cop went to see the sagely fabulist. It might have been a social visit, but one thing led to another, and soon Nuhu Ribadu and Achebe began to talk about the prodigal nation.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Revisiting the Asaba massacres</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/18/revisiting-the-asaba-massacres/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/18/revisiting-the-asaba-massacres/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Orbit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asaba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[massacres]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MY attempt this week is to bring some attention to the subject of the Asaba massacres, one of the haunting ghosts of Nigeria’s last civil war. I pay particular tribute to Emma Okocha - Onye Amuma Cable - author of Blood on the Niger, the chilling account of the Asaba massacres of October 7, 1967.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Falae’s lament, and the vile legacy of Nigeria’s elite</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/11/falae%e2%80%99s-lament-and-the-vile-legacy-of-nigeria%e2%80%99s-elite/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/11/falae%e2%80%99s-lament-and-the-vile-legacy-of-nigeria%e2%80%99s-elite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Orbit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Falae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=28716</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[TWO weeks ago, in two separate interviews with Olu Falae, published by two Nigerian newspapers, one of which of course was the Sunday Vanguard, Nigerians were afforded a rare glimpse into the soul of the man. It was a troubled soul.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>The trouble with Nigeria</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/04/the-trouble-with-nigeria/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/04/the-trouble-with-nigeria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eribake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Orbit]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=27053</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nigeria has not managed to transcend the history of its colonial origins]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>The reforms in the civil service</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/27/the-reforms-in-the-civil-service/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/27/the-reforms-in-the-civil-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eribake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Orbit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Civil Service]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The plans to retire an entire generation of civil servants from the position of directors, and cap the years of service of the permanent under secretaries of the Federal Civil Service announced recently by the current Secretary to the Federal Government of Nigeria, Steve Oronsaye is wrong headed policy.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gani</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/13/gani/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/13/gani/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Orbit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gani]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=22695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I never knew Gani Fawehinmi in a deep and personal way, but he was of course, rested somewhere in my consciousness, as I’m sure he does in the consciousness of any Nigerian of my generation, as an inevitable testimony of true acts of public heroism. He was indeed the hero of the silent unrepresented; those we love to call the masses. He, therefore, somehow, seemed to belong to all of us.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Akanu Ibiam international airport</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/06/the-akanu-ibiam-international-airport/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/06/the-akanu-ibiam-international-airport/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Orbit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Airport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travelers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=21160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Eastern and indeed many Middle belt international travelers have frequently demanded this upgrade for a number of reasons, chief of which is the inconvenience of always travelling to Lagos, Abuja or Kano, or even Port-Harcourt before they could board or even disembark from an international flight.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kidnapping in the east is the revolt of the oppressed</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/30/kidnapping-in-the-east-is-the-revolt-of-the-oppressed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/30/kidnapping-in-the-east-is-the-revolt-of-the-oppressed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Orbit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kidnapping]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=19466</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Military governors sent to the East, including those who were Igbo military officers, often thought their assignments to the East was a continuation of the civil war by other means. Their mandates, it seemed, was not to develop the East, but to slow it down.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>37</slash:comments>
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		<title>The new face of Imo is all on the billboards</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/23/the-new-face-of-imo-is-all-on-the-billboards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/23/the-new-face-of-imo-is-all-on-the-billboards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eribake</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[billboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IMO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Population]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=17649</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I WAS home to Imo State this past May to bury my father who died on May 3 at the Federal Medical Centre in Umuahia and was buried on June 6, 2009 in his home at Mbaise. Just as an aside, I wish to thank all those who through their messages, gifts, prayers and presence supported and stood by my family throughout the period of the funeral rites.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>The proposed petroleum university in Kaduna is a distraction</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/16/the-proposed-petroleum-university-in-kaduna-is-a-distraction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/16/the-proposed-petroleum-university-in-kaduna-is-a-distraction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Orbit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[petroleum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=16006</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I should concede upfront that I have personally not read this bill and cannot talk with facility or insight about its content and form, and thus particularly, its implication in the evolution of the oil industry in Nigeria.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Boko Haram and the sin of the fathers</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/09/boko-haram-and-the-sin-of-the-fathers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/09/boko-haram-and-the-sin-of-the-fathers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Orbit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boko Haram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moslem]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=14828</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The police alert was quite significant given that the theft of that material marked two possible scenarios: the vulnerability of Nigeria with the increase of insecurity in that region, and secondly, the fact that the loss of this material which could in fact be weaponized happened without a trace.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>To Save Nigeria: the Revolutionary Coup and the Civil War</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/02/to-save-nigeria-the-revolutionary-coup-and-the-civil-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/02/to-save-nigeria-the-revolutionary-coup-and-the-civil-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Orbit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coup]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=13719</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“The truth is” said Onyefuru, “I was his only troop!” in response to my question about the failures of troop mobilization that night. “I returned with him to the Ikeja barracks that morning. We had walked across the front of Colonel Njoku’s home.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Omafume onoge was an organic intellectual</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/26/omafume-onoge-was-an-organic-intellectual/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/26/omafume-onoge-was-an-organic-intellectual/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Orbit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friday Omafume Onoge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intellectual]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=12026</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We shall all certainly pay our debts with death, and in good time too. Onoge was 70 years. I would personally have thought that he lived beyond his mathematical years. I was a student in Jos in the years that Omafume Onoge held sway as the titan of the intellectual left in that city and in that university.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama’s visit to Ghana signals the shifts in Nigeria-America relationship</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/19/obama%e2%80%99s-visit-to-ghana-signals-the-shifts-in-nigeria-america-relationship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/19/obama%e2%80%99s-visit-to-ghana-signals-the-shifts-in-nigeria-america-relationship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Orbit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[t Barrack H. Obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=10816</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Obi Nwakanma 
DOES America’s President  Barrack H. Obama’s choice of  Ghana as his first port of call to sub-Sahara Africa really matter in determining the new directions of America’s foreign policy on Africa in the coming era? Diplomatic sources on the Nigerian end seriously think so.

Many Nigerians also see the weighty symbolic thrust [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>The ASUU strike highlights the rot in Nigerian higher education</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/12/the-asuu-strike-highlights-the-rot-in-nigerian-higher-education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/12/the-asuu-strike-highlights-the-rot-in-nigerian-higher-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Orbit]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=9141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First, the solution to the crisis in Nigerian public education is not in
the creating of more second rate degree mills that have neither reason nor rhyme. It is in the proper funding, planning, and elevation of existing public universities. Second, it must be emphasized that not everybody currently in the university is made for university education. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>60</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why Yar&#8217;Adua’s amnesty is not an olive branch</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/05/why-yaradua%e2%80%99s-amnesty-is-not-an-olive-branch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/05/why-yaradua%e2%80%99s-amnesty-is-not-an-olive-branch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In short, MEND’s demands seek plainly to revisit the national question, and this is the true olive branch that would provide grounds for disarmament. Let us, of course, not overlook the subtle threat behind the federal government’s offer of amnesty and the six-month window for disarmament.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Of Harvard and upstart governors</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/28/of-harvard-and-upstart-governors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/28/of-harvard-and-upstart-governors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sunday</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LET us be quite upfront with truth: Some of the individuals who are the governors of Nigerian states today could not pass their basic West African Schools Certificate examinations even in more than one sitting; some could not pass the Joint Matriculation Exam when it was the gold standard for academic performance in Nigeria; as a result they did not have the kind of standard university education available to the more talented of their peers in Nigeria, many of who probably ended up in academia, the first call in those now seemingly halcyon years, for  the best products of the then highly competitive Nigerian university system. Yes, indeed, the very best were immediately recruited and retained to teach in the Universities.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Robes of the militant</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/21/robes-of-the-militant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/21/robes-of-the-militant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Orbit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Camp Five]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julius Berger]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Though those there took the decisions they wanted to take in respect of resource control in the name of a democracy mantra that though the minority may well have their say, the majority would have their way, the people of the South-South have by and large fought for that measure of control that they believed would make for peace in the area and the country.]]></description>
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