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		<title>Mamadou Tandja And The Coup In Niger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Reuben Abati
INTERNATIONAL organisations and other stakeholders commenting on the coup that took place in Niger on February 19 have been making the right diplomatic and politically correct noises. While all that familiar stuff about a military coup being an aberration and a major setback for the democratic process in Africa is acceptable, the truth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to End this Nonsense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Dele Momodu
My second coming, even if intermittently, had been foretold by no less a “prophet” than Simon Kolawole. He had told me it was virtually impossible for a restless writer like me to ignore the sad developments in Nigeria. We had this encounter on the day American Chronicle published on its website that President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dissecting the Jonathan Presidency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Reuben Abati
Nigeria has a new &#8216;acting&#8217; president courtesy of the action taken by the National Assembly to resolve the terrible impasse into which President Umaru Yar&#8217;Adua had thrown the entire country by refusing to transmit a letter to the National Assembly in line with Section 145 of the Constitution. There is no doubting the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yar’Adua to live forever; Nigeria may die</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Okey Ndibe
In addition to sheer amazement, many of us following the argument that a comatose Umaru Yar’Adua is fit to run Nigeria must have a sense of déjà vu. Nigeria is not the only country that falls into the hands of inept, clueless leadership. But it may well be one of the rare countries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Haiti still habitable?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Luke Onyekakeyah
THE catastrophic 7.0 magnitude earthquake that ravaged Haiti on January 12, 2010 has brought to the fore concerns about the continued habitation of people on the dangerous Haitian tip of the Hispaniola Island in the Caribbean Sea. Though, two countries share the Island, namely: Dominican Republic and Haiti, the Haitian part appears to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obasanjo is an Honourable Man&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Simon Kolawole
Honour has a new admirer. Morality has a new sweat heart. His name is Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. Speaking at an event in Abuja on Thursday, Obasanjo released his most direct salvos against President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua since the ex-president honourably imposed the Katsina man as his successor in 2007 via elections that were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obasanjo On Obama: Two-faces And A Forked Tongue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Sonala Olumhense
EVERY Nigeria ought to read &#8220;Obama&#8217;s election and the needed change,&#8221; in The Guardian of October 6, 2008. It is painful to read, but it was Aristotle, remember, who taught that &#8220;We cannot learn without pain.&#8221;
The article was penned by Olusegun Obasanjo. This is a man that had two chances to serve his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As Obasanjo Ditches Yar&#8217;Adua</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Reuben Abati
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo&#8217;s prayer at the Annual Trust Awards that God should punish him if indeed he deliberately chose as his successor a sick man so he would not be able to perform and possibly outshine him, has drawn quite a number of Amens from the public with the outrightly cynical insisting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yar&#8217;Adua: Lost but found</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Reuben Abati
&#8220;HALLELUYAH oh. Somebody shout halle-lu-yah o. Ha-le-ha-le-hale&#8230; I praise the Lord o&#8230;ha-le. &#8220;Somebody, e yin oluwa logo hale&#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;What&#8217;s the matter with you?&#8221;: You don drink?&#8221;
&#8220;Yes o. I am drunk with joy. Halle-hale-halle&#8230;, &#8220;halleluyah, halle&#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;I have been telling you. Take it easy with the bottle. What a man eats is his path to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s God Got to Do with It?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Ijeoma Nwogwugwu
Ever since the United States listed 14 countries, including Nigeria, which it perceives as either “sponsors of terrorism” or “countries of interest”, a lot has been said and written locally and overseas in reaction to the development. Of particular interest are those reactions from the Nigerian citizenry and officials in government. The general [...]]]></description>
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