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	<title>Vanguard &#187; Editorial</title>
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		<title>Beyond imperial governors</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/20/beyond-imperial-governors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/20/beyond-imperial-governors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aliyu Modibbo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-tobacco]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[FORMER Minister of the Federal Capital Territory  (FCT), Dr. Aliyu Modibbo thinks governors have become emperors because state houses of assembly were not strong enough to control them.]]></description>
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		<title>Speak out INEC</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/19/speak-out-inec/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/19/speak-out-inec/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cheque]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[INEC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is about to make the biggest mistake about the 2010 election in Anambra State through its silence in various areas.
INEC deserves the support of all to get out of the mire of badly organised elections, but it must be seen seeking that help. Does INEC have the funds it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No surprises here</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/17/no-surprises-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/17/no-surprises-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assassination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bayo Ohu]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=36747</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[BEFORE investigations into the assassination of Chief  Funso Williams, a Lagos State governorship aspirant began, three years ago, most Nigerians felt the killers would not be found. The case is rarely mentioned these days.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ogbulafor’s quit notice</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/16/ogbulafor%e2%80%99s-quit-notice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/16/ogbulafor%e2%80%99s-quit-notice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ogbulafor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is reportedly disappointed with Ogbulafor’s mishandling of the primaries. Yar’Adua can do more than being angry.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>N200b Ecological Fund</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/13/n200b-ecological-fund/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/13/n200b-ecological-fund/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=35883</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[THE National Economic Council (NEC) must have intended to impress Nigerians with news that former President Olusegun Obasanjo squandered N200 billion of the Ecological Fund.
So what is next? If someone is known to have, squandered public funds, no matter what the funds were for, are there no sanctions? Is the law silent on what to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Abdullahi’s INEC appeal</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/12/abdullahi%e2%80%99s-inec-appeal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/12/abdullahi%e2%80%99s-inec-appeal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electoral reforms]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=35592</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NOBODY appears interested in electoral reforms. The  dances that pass for moves to make defining changes in the way Nigeria conducts elections cannot produce any meaningful changes because the holders of power cannot make moves that they are not sure would leave powers in their hands.
Justice Umaru Abdullahi, out-going President of the Court of Appeal, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our 3,000 fake teachers</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/11/our-3000-fake-teachers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/11/our-3000-fake-teachers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexsamade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teachers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[THE Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) is not ready to admit its failure in engaging more than 3,248 fake teachers under its scheme that was meant to improve the standard of education in our primary and junior secondary schools.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>What ATC error?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/10/what-atc-error/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/10/what-atc-error/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aircraft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MINISTER of Aviation, Babatunde Omotoba has the powers to suspend whoever he thinks is performing below the low expectations of his ministry. However, he does not have the right to titillate Nigerians with tales of the improved state of the equipment used in the industry.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Feuding Ministers</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/09/feuding-ministers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/09/feuding-ministers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ministers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=34925</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[PRESIDENT Umaru Yar’Adua has risen up to the complicating consequences of fracturing feuds that are part of his administration. There are no indications of an easy solution to the acrimony that ministers have managed to cultivate in their relations with each other.
They, as the President admitted, have hurt the performance of government. He has warned, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amnesty: Hard Questions</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/06/amnesty-hard-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/06/amnesty-hard-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Godwin Abbe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[THE choice of Major-General Godwin Abbe as the latest Minister of Defence, had a lot with the expectations of the President that a former military administrator, who is also an indigene of the Niger Delta,  and other indigenes of the area in government, would work for the benefit of the region.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tenure of Perm-Secs</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/05/tenure-of-perm-secs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/05/tenure-of-perm-secs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heaven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[permanent secretaries]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=34126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The old system of giving Permanent Secretaries and Directors in the Federal Civil Service unlimited tenure appeared to take the term: “Permanent Secretary” literally.
It gave rise to so many abuses that the federal civil service became the engine room of corruption, ethnic domination, sectional cabalism and the nurturing of super-powerful public officers who were used [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pa Soludo – A Challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/03/pa-soludo-%e2%80%93-a-challenge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/03/pa-soludo-%e2%80%93-a-challenge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kidnap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pa Soludo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=33669</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[THE police has been handed another rare opportunity to prove its seriousness with the promises it has made to tackle kidnapping. The kidnap of Pa Simeon Nwankwo Soludo, father of Professor Chukwuma Soludo, former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, has upped the intrigues in the Anambra State governorship election.
Events so far are in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Deregulation &#8211; Pains To Gains</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/02/deregulation-pains-to-gains/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/02/deregulation-pains-to-gains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deregulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[notoriety]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=33466</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[OUR governments have notoriety for failing in their promises. This character is solely responsible for the vicious attacks on the planned deregulation of the oil industry. There is even the sinister conclusion that what government is aiming at is not deregulation, but price increase.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bothering Corruption</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/30/bothering-corruption/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/30/bothering-corruption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crimes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=32795</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[THE conviction of Chief Olabode George, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and five others, for corruption has deceptively revved hopes that government is serious with the fight against corruption.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>More Post Amnesty Issues</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/29/more-post-amnesty-issues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/29/more-post-amnesty-issues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amnesty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-militants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[WITH the end of the amnesty granted militants on October 4, it is important that the Federal Government does not relapse into its habit of forgetting the region once it is guaranteed unfettered oil exploration.]]></description>
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		<title>Another Aviation Probe</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/28/another-aviation-probe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/28/another-aviation-probe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=32334</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[THREE years ago, the country mourned the spates of air disasters in the country. On the night of September 22, 2006, Bellview flight 210 went missing until its strewn parts were found in Lisa, Ogun State the next day.

Its 117 passengers and crew died, among them very prominent Nigerians from business and politics.
A Sosoliso flight [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>When’s Next Strike</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/26/when%e2%80%99s-next-strike/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/26/when%e2%80%99s-next-strike/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASUU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strike]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[AFTER more than three months of shutting the universities down, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU,  and the Federal Government have decided to call off this round of strike, an annual ritual that befuddles Nigerians about the issues of university education.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Winner Is &#8211; Nobody!</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/23/winner-is-nobody/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/23/winner-is-nobody/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cape Verde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mo Ibrahim]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=31325</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[THE Mo Ibrahim prize for achievement in African leadership has given a damning verdict on the quality of African leaders with its decision not to award the 2008 leadership prize.
Former president of Botswana Ketumile Masire, speaking for the selection committee said, “The prize committee could not select a winner”.
The prize, the largest individual annual award [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Electricity, Not Excuses</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/22/electricity-not-excuses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/22/electricity-not-excuses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electricity supply]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hydro power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=31105</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[IT is a long time since President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua said a word about Nigeria’s low electricity supply, or even his electoral promise to declare an emergency on electricity within months of being in office.
Electricity is central to the existence of the modern society. Decades ago, it was one of the strongest factors that promoted [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Remember Chia?</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/21/remember-chia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/21/remember-chia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnabayomi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Detimbir]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DETIMBIR Chia, a 14-year-old secondary school student, in the inner recesses of Benue State, three years ago, was credited with the spirited and courageous efforts that resulted in the fervent rescue operations which saved the lives of some passengers of the military plane that crashed in his village of Mbakunu, in Sangev Ya.
There are a [...]]]></description>
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