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	<title>Vanguard News &#187; Tuesday Platform</title>
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		<title>Feasibility of transformation as Jonathan&#8217;s development strategy (4)</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/02/feasibility-of-transformation-as-jonathans-development-strategy-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mbgolu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE media, especially the print media, is often the worst offender when it comes to reducing vision and mission statements into labels and mantras. Vision 20-20 is replaced with Vision 20-20-20 and there is another symbol to be treated as if it is the Policy Documents, too bulky to be subjected to critical review.]]></description>
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		<title>Feasibility of transformation as Jonathan&#8217;s development  strategy (3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mbgolu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WHEN the above is the case, the problematique of constitutional government in Nigeria is civilian electoral government, not unconstitutional military rule. The puzzle for the rank and file of the Military as well as the generality of the Nigerian populace is why Military governments voluntarily withdraw from office only to return at will to office. ]]></description>
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		<title>Feasibility of transformation governance policies as Jonathan&#8217;s development strategy (2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mbgolu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE political history of British postcolonial countries began with the reform of the capitalist British     Empires. The strategic difference between these postcolonial countries is to be found in the nature of their independence politics and their independence politicians. ]]></description>
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		<title>Feasibility of transformation governance policies as Jonathan&#8217;s development strategy</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/feasibility-of-transformation-governance-policies-as-jonathans-development-strategy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[REFLECTIONS in the media marking years of Democracy in Nigerian are by definition the microanalysis of Nigerian Democracy. ]]></description>
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		<title>Hello Baba-Ahmed, Hello Modibo Kawu</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/hello-baba-ahmed-hello-modibo-kawu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/hello-baba-ahmed-hello-modibo-kawu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HELLO Hakeem, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Welcome to  Vanguard.  Your Bloody Democracy is a descriptive masterpiece. The core implication of your painstaking observations, for me, is the following:]]></description>
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		<title>Review of the 1999 Constitution and Nigerian democracy (4)</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/review-of-the-1999-constitution-and-nigerian-democracy-4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/review-of-the-1999-constitution-and-nigerian-democracy-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THIS is why the Democratic Project in Nigeria must begin with the political formation of the project. And the primary institution whose raison d’etre is service on behalf of the mass operating on enough and less than enough household budgets is supposed to be the Organised Labour. ]]></description>
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		<title>Review of the 1999 Constitution and  Nigerian democracy (3)</title>
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		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/review-of-the-1999-constitution-and-nigerian-democracy-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DEMOCRACY for the Civilian Elite was the subject of General Abubakar’s address. This is not the Project of Democracy for the Masses, Democracy for the Majority may preserve constitutionalist governments and therefore civilian constitutionalist governments, Not so for Democracy for the Civilian Elite. ]]></description>
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		<title>Review of the 1999 Constitution and Nigerian democracy (2)</title>
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		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/review-of-the-1999-constitution-and-nigerian-democracy-2-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GENERAL Abdusalami Abubakar, himself at a seminar on the same subject as the present one, spoke on this question of reversible and irreversible shift in the balance of power between the ruling factions, the Military and the Civilian. Quoting Graham Allison, the former Head of State said:]]></description>
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		<title>Review of the 1999 Constitution, Nigerian democracy  (1)</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/review-of-the-1999-constitution-nigerian-democracy-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/review-of-the-1999-constitution-nigerian-democracy-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AS steps are taken for the review of the 1999 Constitution, it is appropriate for a perspective on this initiative to be provided. The review of the Constitution should have one overriding aim, namely: to sustain the Democracy Project in Nigeria. The citizenry must be engaged and this as critical participants. ]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding the political context of  INEC&#8217;s mission</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/understanding-the-political-context-of-inecs-mission/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/understanding-the-political-context-of-inecs-mission/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN this piece I will focus on government in Africa. In a subsequent piece I will address the implications of the disquisition on government for governance in Africa.]]></description>
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		<title>Transforming a defence/ security sector into a  defence/security system</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/transforming-a-defence-security-sector-into-a-defencesecurity-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/transforming-a-defence-security-sector-into-a-defencesecurity-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN the November 15, 2011 edition of the Tuesday Platform I reviewed General Don Idada E. Ikponmwen’s proposal for the reform of Nigeria’s defence and security sector. He had argued for a coordination of the services through a new office. He argued that such a reform will improve the efficiency of the defence and security sector. ]]></description>
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		<title>The extant security situation in the country</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/the-extant-security-situation-in-the-country/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/the-extant-security-situation-in-the-country/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SATURDAY Vanguard, October 8, 2011 carried excerpts of the interview with General Don Idada E Ikponmwen, former Provost Marshall of the Nigerian Army and one time Director of Army Legal Services. The highlight of the interview was titled: “It’s sad, government can’t guarantee security Ikponmwen”. ]]></description>
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		<title>National Assembly review of 1999  Constitution</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/national-assembly-review-of-1999-constitution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/national-assembly-review-of-1999-constitution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE following quote describesdespotic governments: “Like the crowns of France and Spain, the English monarchy had no superior in its realm, it was not in any way answerable to its subjects for its policy or actions, and no lawful means or agencies existed to control, correct, or coerce it if it was guilty of excess or wrong doing.]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Joseph and choice of concepts for explaining change of govts (2)</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/richard-joseph-and-choice-of-concepts-for-explaining-change-of-govts-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/richard-joseph-and-choice-of-concepts-for-explaining-change-of-govts-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DEMOCRACY has therefore not been the project of any Nigerian electoral or military government. In what sense then was Nigerian politics of the Second Republic prebendal? How did Richard Joseph coin the adjective prebendal?]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Joseph and choice of concepts for explaining change of govts</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/10/richard-joseph-and-choice-of-concepts-for-explaining-change-of-govts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/10/richard-joseph-and-choice-of-concepts-for-explaining-change-of-govts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nnamdiojiego</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A ONE day commemorative conference on Richard Joseph’s Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria was held at Eko Hotel, September 10, 2011. Unfortunately...]]></description>
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