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By John Abayomi, Deputy Online Editor<\/p>\n

2011 has been an extraordinary newsy year! Vanguard Online and its highly-esteemed readers have seen a year filled with breaking news stories, witnessed historic moments and savoured lifetime images on our website.<\/p>\n

Our readers\u2019 contributions, comments and debates have enriched not just media discourse, but our body polity and has helped in setting public agenda.<\/p>\n

2011 brought us the\u00a0 zoning controversy, the general elections, post-election violence, Bode George\u2019s release from prison, Okonjo-Iweala\u2019s return to government, UN House bombing, Lagos floods, the Justice Salami saga, Nations\u2019 Cup ouster, OBJ\/ IBB war of words, tenure elongation, Baba Suwe vs NDLEA, Islamic banking debate and other Sanusi reforms, the arrest and trial of Bankole, the national awards, El-Rufai\u2019s arrest, murder of Lagos bizman, Arowolo\u2019s wife murder, ABSU rape controversy, Dangote\u2019s Forbes rating as richest African, the death of Sam Loco, Christy Essien-Igbokwe, comedian CD John, MC Loph\u00a0etc.<\/p>\n

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On the international scene, we and our readers have been part of Japan\u2019s tsunami and earthquake,\u00a0the royal wedding, Osama\u2019s death, the Arab Spring, the fall of Mubarak, the Libyan crisis and death of Gaddafi, the fall of\u00a0 Dominique Strauss Khan of the International Monetary Fund, IMF, Steve Jobs\u2019 death, etc.<\/p>\n

In our tradition, Vanguard Online is giving our esteem readers the opportunity of reviewing our biggest stories of the year.<\/p>\n

Starting from tomorrow, readers will be presented with our big stories in different categories for them to decide their top story(ies) in the year.<\/p>\n

Join us as we review 2011\u00a0.<\/p>\n

Note<\/strong>: Tomorrow:\u00a0\u00a0The Top Crime Story of the year!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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