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		<title>Graduate Assistant: Anecdotes from the Exam Hall</title>
		<link>http://failedrift.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/graduate-assistant-anecdotes-from-the-exam-hall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 12:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ikenna Okonkwo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Department of Geology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graduate Assistant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UNN]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;I hate you so much! You are an evil person! I hate you!’ I was add at the receiving end of this vitriolic declaration from a female student yesterday. It wasn’t because I jilted her or failed her or previously abused her. It was simply because I did not allow her to cheat during an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=failedrift.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8144333&amp;post=406&amp;subd=failedrift&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jegged!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ikenna Okonkwo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2011 Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Attahiru Jega]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nsukka]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nsukka 2nd April, 2011 12 noon: The long anticipated first Saturday of the 2011 election had arrived. The anticipation, palpable in the last few days had reached fever pitch from the bloggers to the social network users to the man on the street. Even though for various reasons (including chronic procrastination) I was not able [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=failedrift.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8144333&amp;post=402&amp;subd=failedrift&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bomb Scare on Campus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ikenna Okonkwo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UNN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bomb scare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There was a long queue of cars at the main gate of the university yesterday morning. Now this isn’t normal as traffic jams are generally short and brief; but there it was stretching from the main gate to the Mobil filling station roundabout (if you’re from Nsukka that is). Traffic jams like that usually have a serious cause; the visit of some important personage or major repairs to the road the gate or a broken down scar or, a bomb scare!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=failedrift.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8144333&amp;post=392&amp;subd=failedrift&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Ikenna Okonkwo</media:title>
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		<title>2010 in review&#8212;4 747 Hits</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 14:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ikenna Okonkwo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Failed rift]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here's a high level summary of its overall blog health:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=failedrift.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8144333&amp;post=388&amp;subd=failedrift&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Ikenna Okonkwo</media:title>
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		<title>A Landslide&#8230;Not a Volcanic Eruption</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ikenna Okonkwo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Department of Geology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Field Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benue state]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imiande-Ukusu Itulygh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kwande]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Landslide]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I was told of the volcanic eruption in Benue state  did not believe it. The nearest active volcano to was mount Cameroon and from basic regional geology the most recent volcanic activity in Benue state was in the tertiary period.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=failedrift.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8144333&amp;post=374&amp;subd=failedrift&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Ikenna Okonkwo</media:title>
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		<title>Graduate Assistant: One Month After</title>
		<link>http://failedrift.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/graduate-assistant-one-month-after/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ikenna Okonkwo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Geology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graduate Assistant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UNN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Geology UNN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[micropaleontology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Structural Geology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://failedrift.wordpress.com/?p=341</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I got appointed into the Department of Geology as a Graduate Assistant just over a month ago (though I received the letter and resumed duty on the 12th of August the appointment letter is dated 5th of August. I've waited more than a year for this but its final arrival was more like an anti-climax; a kind of ''ok, so now what?'' kind of feeling.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=failedrift.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8144333&amp;post=341&amp;subd=failedrift&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aunty Dora comes to UNN!</title>
		<link>http://failedrift.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/aunty-dora-comes-to-unn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ikenna Okonkwo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UNN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Convocation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dora Akunyili]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Prof. Dora Akunyili was in UNN to deliver the 39th Convocation lecture. Here is the story as it is told in conversation between friends.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=failedrift.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8144333&amp;post=333&amp;subd=failedrift&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Memoriam: Obiora Okeke (1985-2010)</title>
		<link>http://failedrift.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/in-memoriam-obiora-okeke-1985-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ikenna Okonkwo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Obiora Okeke]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Obiora Okeke called me last week thursday. I was supposed to arrange reference letters for admission into the university of Salford (UK) from 2 lecturers at the department and I had actually been dragging my foot about. It wasn&#8217;t the first time since he had called and really on that thursday I did not have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=failedrift.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8144333&amp;post=313&amp;subd=failedrift&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Ikenna Okonkwo</media:title>
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		<title>50 things a man Should and Should not do</title>
		<link>http://failedrift.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/50-things-a-man-should-and-should-not-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ikenna Okonkwo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first things]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://failedrift.wordpress.com/?p=321</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Came across two nice articles from First Things&#8216; website this weekend on 50 things a man should be able to do and 50 things a man should never do. Some of the points, though  American oriented, are worth a good examination of conscience, and one can add a few more to a list which obviously [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=failedrift.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8144333&amp;post=321&amp;subd=failedrift&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Accretionary wedge: Geo-Images wish list</title>
		<link>http://failedrift.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/accretionary-wedge-geo-images-wish-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 17:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ikenna Okonkwo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accretionary Wedge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[in and around the rift]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photos]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Incised Meanders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lamurde Anticline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[san Juan River]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is almost a year since I took part in the Accretionary Wedge geoblogospheric carnival. This it is hosted at Highly Allochotunous Allochthonous and it is on images! In their own words: It could be a photograph you’ve taken of an outcrop or process in action; a diagram from a classic geologic paper or text-book; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=failedrift.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8144333&amp;post=291&amp;subd=failedrift&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Ikenna Okonkwo</media:title>
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