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	<title>Vanguard &#187; The Passing Scene</title>
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		<title>*the Ikemba speaks</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/21/the-ikemba-speaks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/21/the-ikemba-speaks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Passing Scene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andy Uba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ojukwu]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=37656</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There were speculations that the verdict of the Court of Appeal on the matter of the Anambra State Governorship case involving Dr. Andy Uba, could create a state of anarchy in the State, if it was not properly handled. Legal tussles of that kind are usually attended by conjectures, and rumours of one kind or the other.]]></description>
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		<title>My verdict on the “chief justice”</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/14/my-verdict-on-the-%e2%80%9cchief-justice%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/14/my-verdict-on-the-%e2%80%9cchief-justice%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Passing Scene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adokie Amasiemeka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FIFA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=36116</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I always knew I would one day be forced into making a comment or two about sports although I had decided to reserve any expression of my feelings, exciting or depressing, to myself. I was sure that I would mostly be assailed by the latter anyway, so why bother.]]></description>
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		<title>belabouring deregulation</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/07/belabouring-deregulation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/07/belabouring-deregulation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Passing Scene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deregulation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=34549</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, since you and I are neophytes in this perennial itch of “deregulation”, I believe it is high time someone competent stepped out to scratch deep into the issue which is uppermost in our minds, to wit, the price of fuel nationwide.]]></description>
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		<title>the national (investigative) assembly</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/24/the-national-investigative-assembly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/24/the-national-investigative-assembly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Passing Scene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investigative)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national assembly]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=31527</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Social unrests from which new crimes arise have a way of leaving the crimes behind afterwards as a legacy of anguish]]></description>
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		<title>Time is of the essence</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/17/time-is-of-the-essence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/17/time-is-of-the-essence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Passing Scene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Option A4]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=30071</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Umaru Yar’Adua cannot be under the delusion that all is well in the Niger Delta, in the sense that the recent amnesty, following the surrender of arms by the militants, is the harbinger of peace in that difficult area. Of course, it definitely points the way, but it has no loud announcement to make yet about our arrival.





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		<title>*out of the mouth of babes</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/10/out-of-the-mouth-of-babes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/10/out-of-the-mouth-of-babes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Passing Scene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[babes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=28547</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was one of those days that start off normally and then suddenly acquire an aberration with which they stamp their imprint on history. We had never experienced a trade dispute that led to a strike before. Anyone who had heard about it was left to only imagine it.]]></description>
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		<title>To make Nigeria lovable</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/03/to-make-nigeria-lovable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/03/to-make-nigeria-lovable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Passing Scene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[independence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=26933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I LOVE MY COUNTRY, I NO GO LIE NA INSIDE AM I GO LIVE AND LEAVE
By Bisi Lawrence
We used to sing that and profess to believe in it. But come on, now!&#8230; I mean, why then the long queues at the foreign embassies where you swallow insults on the visa line?

They now say you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the move again, Aondokaa again, US back again</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/19/on-the-move-again-aondokaa-again-us-back-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/19/on-the-move-again-aondokaa-again-us-back-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Passing Scene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aondokaa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=23939</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Women! Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Honourable Member of the House of Representatives and former (?) media personality, led the chorus and the whole house joined in.]]></description>
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		<title>*gani *sanusi *sunmi</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/12/gani-sanusi-sunmi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/12/gani-sanusi-sunmi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Passing Scene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanusi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=22313</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A torrent – nay, an avalanche – of tributes, such as has seldom been witnessed in our nation has been cascading down the pages of newspapers since Gani Fawehinmi passed on barely seven days ago. Yes, Gani deserves his rest no less than he merits these spontaneous expressions of the admiration of his compatriots.]]></description>
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		<title>the throbbing point</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/05/the-throbbing-point/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/05/the-throbbing-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Passing Scene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=20798</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The gentleman in question, Gabriel Omoh, a dyed-in-the-wool professional, scored what I would call a “world scoop”, and it took no less than a stalwart in the practice of journalism, and a true veteran himself,  Aba Saheed to also proclaim it as such. Aba Saheed, I should add, writes for another newspaper. To stretch a congratulatory message to another publication therefore speaks of the highest standards.]]></description>
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		<title>The welcome in Libya</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/29/the-welcome-in-libya/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/29/the-welcome-in-libya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Passing Scene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bomb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorists]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=19159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 21st, 1988, PanAm Flight 103 was just seeking its cruising height for a smooth flight to the United States when it crashed over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. No less than 269 souls were lost, not counting 11 others on the ground. It was the result of an explosion caused by a bomb that had been planted by terrorists who tore through the ‘eighties with dastardly acts of mass murder in a variety of execution.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Waiting for the malodorous one</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/22/waiting-for-the-malodorous-one/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/22/waiting-for-the-malodorous-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Passing Scene]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=17534</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You wonder how professionally run banks could have so severely hamstrung themselves to a degree that turned around to make them, the creditors, eventually insolvent. An expert characterized most of the loans as being mismatched - that is, they were long-term propositions in a situation of short-term investments.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>A man, his mission; a nation of headlines; a slap in the face; Ogufere, my friend</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/15/a-man-his-mission-a-nation-of-headlines-a-slap-in-the-face-ogufere-my-friend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/15/a-man-his-mission-a-nation-of-headlines-a-slap-in-the-face-ogufere-my-friend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Passing Scene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Easter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Redeemed Christian Church of God]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=15956</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is not yet up to a year since I began to feel differently. I believe I have written about that change here. It is not anything as earth-shaking as St. Paul’s conversion. It was simply a growing awareness of an inward uplifting – that is the only way I can describe it; an internal effervescence that fills you with a gripping desire to ascend to a plane of higher thoughts and nobler deeds.]]></description>
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		<title>*Caban Bamboo *Bobby Benson</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/08/caban-bamboo-bobby-benson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/08/caban-bamboo-bobby-benson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Passing Scene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[axophone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bobby Benson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caban Bamboo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trumpet]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=14438</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My approach to the matter of Caban Bamboo is to avoid unnecessary preambles and sentiments. Right now there is a gaping hole or vacant space where Caban Bamboo once stood majestically. The fact as far as eyes can see is that the structure has been pulled down.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>on the smoldering keg</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/01/on-the-smoldering-keg/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/01/on-the-smoldering-keg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Passing Scene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PDP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peoples Democratic Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=13429</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It could not really be that President Yar’Adua genuinely hopes for a return to the former local government structure of the State, which bestows the Federal Government with no tangible profit at all, or is in anyway detrimental to the Nigerian project.]]></description>
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		<title>*celebrations here and there</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/25/celebrations-here-and-there/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/25/celebrations-here-and-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Passing Scene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neil Armstrong]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=11931</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Then followed the first physical contact made by a human being with a celestial body when Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon and, with his first step, made that momentous statement: “That’s one small step for a man; one giant leap for humanity.”]]></description>
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		<title>* “mj” and fela, *helluva road, *Halliburton “a-go-go”</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/11/%e2%80%9cmj%e2%80%9d-and-fela-helluva-road-halliburton-%e2%80%9ca-go-go%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/11/%e2%80%9cmj%e2%80%9d-and-fela-helluva-road-halliburton-%e2%80%9ca-go-go%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Passing Scene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Jackson]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=8778</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[And that was the way it was, until I linked up with this cherub-faced bundled of sheer music, with every fibre of him a sweet, sweet sound – Michael Jackson. I can’t remember when I first heard him, but I do remember the song – “1-2-3", a song for the young which left the old calling for an encore. He was fronting the “Jackson Five”, and the driving seat suited him to a “t”.]]></description>
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		<title>*a beautiful man *the great effort persists *nothing is settled</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/04/a-beautiful-man-the-great-effort-persists-nothing-is-settled/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/04/a-beautiful-man-the-great-effort-persists-nothing-is-settled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Passing Scene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Captain Wole Bucknor]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=7061</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Adipere is so lucid. This indeed is the period when academia should have been strutting up and down with the pride and joy of being “in government”, if not “in power”, with two members of their clan on top of the heap.]]></description>
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		<title>A call to common sense</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/26/a-call-to-common-sense/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/26/a-call-to-common-sense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sunday</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Passing Scene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASUU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=5399</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people now say what is going on in the Niger Delta is NOT war. They say it out, loud and clear. It sent me post haste to the meaning of war as described in the dictionary: “armed fighting between states, countries, or factions.”]]></description>
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		<title>*seven-three years younger *the soft under-belly *the young shall grow</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/20/seven-three-years-younger-the-soft-under-belly-the-young-shall-grow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/20/seven-three-years-younger-the-soft-under-belly-the-young-shall-grow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Passing Scene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Cardinal Okogie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roman Catholic Archbishop]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So many “ministries” are caught in the groove of “prosperity” that the gospel of the naira and kobo once entirely dominated our religious horizon. Perhaps it is because the Roman Catholic priesthood is shorn of that pre-occupation that the Cardinal, as well as other clerics of the same order, has found the space to turn around to the commonplace considerations of life ... and that to the benefit of the common people.]]></description>
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