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The fears of farmers that the adequacy of fertiliser will also be a problem this year has been dispelled by Governor Namadi Sambo of Kaduna, who declared in a state-wide broadcast that the state has already purchased 50,000 metric tonnes of assorted fertiliser, with a sum of N5.1 billion.

The governor added that the fertiliser has been subsidised to the tune of N2.5 billion, while N92 million was given to 230 farmers cooperative societies spread across the 23 Local Governments of the state at N400,000 each.

The quantity of fertiliser gotten includes 15 metric tonnes of Urea and 35,000 metric tonnes of NPK

In order to guard against any sharp practices while distributing the fertiliser product, the governor said a modality for sharing has been worked out, which will ensure that medium and large scale farmers easily get the product, with the small scale farmers not being denied.

"The allocation and distribution of the fertiliser will depend on the farm size and type of crop the farmer wishes to cultivate," he said, adding that a total of 1000 applications from groups and individual have been received.

In addition, the governor, who revealed this after his two months local government tour, said medium and large-scale farmers in the state were given about N200 million as soft loans to enable them partake fully in this year's farming season.

He stated, "We are confident we have not betrayed the mandate bestowed on us by the people of the State as we are on course to deliver to them the very best of democratic dividends".

He also denied insinuations that state projects have been concentrated in only one zone. According to him, all the three geo-political zones in the state received their fair share, in terms of real and concrete projects.

"For instance, the grain silos constructed in the state were sited in Lere local Government, which is in Zone I, Birnin Gwari Zone II, and Kafanchan in Zone III. Furthermore other projects included water related, agro-based, solar powered, power, health related and sundry matters, which are of significance to the development of the state," he said.

LOS ANGELES – Police towed the car of a doctor from Michael Jackson's home Friday and said it could contain drugs or other evidence offering clues in the pop star's death.

Los Angeles police spokeswoman Karen Rayner said coroner's investigators were seeking to interview the doctor but said she did not know the doctor's identity. She stressed the doctor was not under criminal investigation.

"His car was impounded because it may contain medications or other evidence that may assist the coroner in determining the cause of death," Rayner said.

Medical examiners prepared an autopsy for Jackson as a chorus of grief spread around the world, from statesmen to icons of music to legions of fans.

Los Angeles County coroner's watch commander Lt. Brian Elias said Friday morning the autopsy would begin shortly and take several hours, but he said other tests would take longer and determining the official cause of death would take weeks or more.

Brian Oxman, a former Jackson attorney and a family friend, said Friday he had been concerned about Jackson's use of painkillers and had warned the singer's family about possible abuse.

"I said one day, we're going to have this experience. And when Anna Nicole Smith passed away, I said we cannot have this kind of thing with Michael Jackson," Oxman said on NBC's "Today" show. "The result was, I warned everyone, and lo and behold, here we are. I don't know what caused his death. But I feared this day, and here we are."

Oxman claimed Jackson had prescription drugs at his disposal to help with pain suffered when he broke his leg after he fell off a stage and for broken vertebrae in his back.

Jackson died Thursday afternoon at UCLA Medical Center after being stricken at his rented home in the posh Los Angeles neighborhood of Holmby Hills. Paramedics tried to resuscitate him for three-quarter of an hours there before rushing him to the hospital.

His brother Jermaine said Jackson apparently suffered cardiac arrest, an abnormal heart rhythm that stops the heart from pumping blood to the body. It can occur after a heart attack or be caused by other heart problems.

Jackson was preparing for a monster comeback bid — a series of 50 concerts that was to begin next month in London.

A handful of bleary-eyed fans camped out throughout the night with media outside the Jackson family house in the San Fernando Valley and near his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. People heading to work in New York stopped to pay respects outside Harlem's Apollo Theater, where Jackson performed as a child.

"When the autopsy comes, all hell's going to break loose, so thank God we're celebrating him now," Liza Minnelli told CBS' "The Early Show" by telephone.

After Jackson was acquitted on child molestation charges in 2005, Santa Barbara County District Attorney Tom Sneddon argued against returning some items belonging to Jackson he labeled "contraband." Sneddon said those included syringes, the drug Demerol and prescriptions for various drugs, mainly antibiotics, that were in different people's names.

Stephen Hill, an executive producer for the BET Awards, said Sunday's show would be dedicated to Jackson because of his influence on music and pop culture.

"I think what you're going to find is that acceptance speeches for awards will have nothing to do about the artists themselves, but about the influence that Michael Jackson had on them," Hill said in a phone interview.

Universal Pictures' "Bruno" screened in Los Angeles on Thursday night with a scene involving Jackson's sister La Toya Jackson cut from the movie. A spokesman for Universal said the studio had no comment.

Jackson's death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s, when he was popular music's premier all-around performer, a uniter of black and white music who shattered the race barrier on MTV, dominated the charts and dazzled even more on stage.

His 1982 album, "Thriller" — which included the blockbuster hits "Beat It," "Billie Jean" and "Thriller" — is the best-selling album of all time worldwide.

Yet after selling more than 61 million albums in the U.S. and having a decade-long attraction open at Disney theme parks, Jackson died reportedly awash in about $400 million in debt, on the cusp of a final comeback after well over a decade of scandal.

As word of his death spread, MTV switched its programming to play videos from Jackson's heyday. Radio stations began playing marathons of his hits. Hundreds of people gathered outside the hospital. In New York's Times Square, a low groan went up in the crowd when a screen flashed that Jackson had died, and people began relaying the news to friends by cell phone.

The public first knew him as a boy in the late 1960s, when he was the precocious, spinning lead singer of the Jackson 5, the singing group he formed with his four older brothers out of Gary, Ind. Among their No. 1 hits were "I Want You Back," "ABC" and "I'll Be There."

He was perhaps the most exciting performer of his generation, known for his backward-gliding moonwalk, his feverish, crotch-grabbing dance moves and his high-pitched singing, punctuated with squeals and titters. His single sequined glove, tight, military-style jacket and aviator sunglasses were trademarks, as was his ever-changing, surgically altered appearance.

"For Michael to be taken away from us so suddenly at such a young age, I just don't have the words," said Quincy Jones, who produced "Thriller." "He was the consummate entertainer and his contributions and legacy will be felt upon the world forever. I've lost my little brother today, and part of my soul has gone with him."

Jackson ranked alongside Elvis Presley and the Beatles as the biggest pop sensations of all time. He united two of music's biggest names when he was briefly married to Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie. Jackson's sudden death immediately evoked comparisons to that of Presley himself, who died at age 42 in 1977.

"I am so very sad and confused with every emotion possible," Lisa Marie Presley said in a statement. "I am heartbroken for his children who I know were everything to him and for his family. This is such a massive loss on so many levels, words fail me."

As years went by, Jackson became an increasingly freakish figure — a middle-aged man-child weirdly out of touch with grown-up life. His skin became lighter, his nose narrower, and he spoke in a breathy, girlish voice. He often wore a germ mask while traveling, kept a pet chimpanzee named Bubbles as one of his closest companions and surrounded himself with children at his Neverland ranch, a storybook playland filled with toys, rides and animals. The tabloids dubbed him "Wacko Jacko."

Jackson caused a furor in 2002 when he playfully dangled his infant son, Prince Michael II, over a hotel balcony in Berlin while a throng of fans watched from below.

In 2005, he was cleared of charges that he molested a 13-year-old cancer survivor at Neverland in 2003. He had been accused of plying the boy with alcohol and groping him, and of engaging in strange and inappropriate behavior with other children.

The case followed years of rumors about Jackson and young boys. In a TV documentary, he acknowledged sharing his bed with children, a practice he described as sweet and not at all sexual.

Despite the acquittal, the lurid allegations that came out in court took a fearsome toll on his career and image, and he fell into serious financial trouble.

Michael Joseph Jackson was born Aug. 29, 1958, in Gary. He was 4 years old when he began singing with his brothers — Marlon, Jermaine, Jackie and Tito — in the Jackson 5. After his early success with bubblegum soul, he struck out on his own, generating innovative, explosive, unstoppable music.

The album "Thriller" mixed the dark, serpentine bass and drums and synthesizer approach of "Billie Jean," the grinding Eddie Van Halen guitar solo on "Beat It" and the hiccups and falsettos on "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'."

The peak may have come in 1983, when Motown celebrated its 25th anniversary with an all-star televised concert and Jackson moonwalked off with the show, joining his brothers for a medley of old hits and then leaving them behind with a pointing, crouching, high-kicking, splay-footed, crotch-grabbing run through "Billie Jean."

The audience stood and roared. Jackson raised his fist.

During production of a 1984 Pepsi commercial, Jackson's scalp sustained burns when an explosion set his hair on fire.

He had strong follow-up albums with 1987's "Bad" and 1991's "Dangerous," but his career began to collapse in 1993 after he was accused of molesting a boy who often stayed at his home. The singer denied any wrongdoing, reached a settlement with the boy's family, reported to be $20 million, and criminal charges were never filed.

Jackson expressed anger over the allegations on the 1995 album, "HIStory," which sold more than 2.4 million copies, but by then, the popularity of Jackson's music was clearly waning even as public fascination with his increasingly erratic behavior was growing.

Jackson married Lisa Marie Presley in 1994, and they divorced in 1996. Later that year, Jackson married Deborah Rowe, a former nurse for his dermatologist. They had two children together: Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., known as Prince Michael, now 12; and Paris Michael Katherine Jackson, 11. Rowe filed for divorce in 1999.

Jackson also had a third child, Prince Michael II, now 7. Jackson said the boy, nicknamed Blanket as a baby, was his biological child born from a surrogate mother.

Billboard magazine editorial director Bill Werde said Jackson's star power was unmatched. "The world just lost the biggest pop star in history, no matter how you cut it," Werde said. "He's literally the king of pop."

Jackson's 13 No. 1 one hits on the Billboard charts put him behind only Presley, the Beatles and Mariah Carey, Werde said.

"He was on the eve of potentially redeeming his career a little bit," he said. "People might have started to think of him again in a different light."

whitelexi:
Your girl is fine jare. . . Finer than many NL chics who only talk thrash.

Yes i agree with you.
the girl is too fine,if
only he can share it
with us,i will not mind.

You made a nice post.
can you pls make it more
details on how to go about it.

THANKS A MILLION.
YOUR OPINIONS ARE
WONDERFUL.

muhsin:
Thank God: Nairalanders are becoming more rationale. May He guide us, open our mind and brain for better understanding of things, ameen.

@Poster
Please think always before posting.

AMENOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

fANTASTIC

If you really love
him,go on your
kneels for prayer.
God is able to do
all things.

Epiphany:
Good point. This however, may take a very very long time.

I just read in the papers that Ibori is being made an elder in PDP (One day, he will return to a position of power). Abachas son is set to contest in 2011. How can things change when we will still have the same people ruling over us? What new things do they have to offer us? When they were in power, did they give the education sector any recognition? These are the kind of questions we need to ask ourselves to give an indication of when we will be out of the wilderness.

What is even more annoying is the fact that Yar' Adua was/is an academic himself. How he cannot recognize his former colleagues by giving them what they ask for is bad, very bad. Even if he cant give them what they want, give them something close to it. It just shows us that maybe when he was a lecturer himself, he did not believe in what he was doing, i.e. he did not believe in the importance of education.

You mean that Abacha's son is up for
presidency?wonder will never end.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
make una fasten una beltoooooooooo

loo

IFELEKE:
@Poster,
Your governor won bought an award and you came screaming it out here, did you even vote for him in the first place?

Did I hear you say my Governor bought the award?
you are a liar.He qualified for it and that was why
he won it.ask yourself one question.why is it
not given to your Governor if it was a BUYING
deal award?

Epiphany:
@texazzpete: You are spot on with your analysis. I completely agree with it. The lecturers are not only fighting for themselves, but for the students and the future of the educational sector in Nigeria. I dont know whether it bothers people that Nigerian Universities are not even among the top schools in Africa. The mere fact that Nigerians (esp those in power) are even sending their kids to GHANA should inform us that there is a problem.
Gone are the days when Ghanaians used to run to Nigeria for jobs and education - they have their act together and are now setting the pace for us. Now, we are the ones running into Ghana for those things. I am sure they are laughing at us now.

I also feel that this is the reason why Multinational companies in Nigeria will continue recruiting and giving priority positions to people with foreign degrees. This is something i have experienced, where someone coming in with a higher degree (MSc, MBA, PhD) is giving priority over those with local degrees. Sometimes, these people do not have any work experience but are put in positions above those with local equivalent degrees and years of experience.

It all comes down to the quality of our education.

I AGREE with you my brother,
infact I know of one man,who live
very close to me.He sent all his
children to Ghana for studies.
But the question is when will
Nigerian students and their
precious lecturers be free from all these mess?

naijachix:
wait a minute! guy, is this some sort of a joke. . . abi are u planning of sleeping with a she-male?
abeg feel us in.

I dont understand u naijachix.

she is my one and only
and from now i will
always ensure i give it to her
when she need it.my baby
N/B I WILL NEVER SHARE
IT with anybody,what do mean by
feel us in?

Thank you my good
people of nairaland.

she has started picking
my calls,im really
feeling
cool.

make him devil purnisham too
stupid person.imagine someone
stabing his fellow human being
b/cos of so call girl friend.,

N/B This topic did not call for fight,but
to enable us know the best Governors
of our dear country Nigeria.

ACADEMIC activities at the state and federal government-owned universities across the country have been paralysed as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Monday, began an indefinite strike.

The National President of the union, Professor Ukachukwu Awuzie, who briefed newsmen along with other members of the National Executive Committee (NEC) in Akure, Ondo State, said the strike was total and indefinite.

He said the lecturers decided to commence the strike, following “the continued negligence, failure and refusal of government to sign the agreement reached between ASUU and the Gamaliel Onosode-led government negotiating teams.”

Awuzie stated that “the otherwise avoidable strike (action) was to compel government to take the path of honour for once and sign the agreement with the union reached after more than two years of painstaking and scientific negotiations.”

The ASUU president said the union had embarked on a two-week warning strike, which ended on May 31, 2009, to enable the government to sign the agreement.

He regretted that despite the warning strike, the situation had remained unchanged as the Federal Government was yet to sign the agreement. According to him, the agitation by the union in the last two years had been on improvement of the Nigerian university system towards reversing the brain drain that had deprived the country of a causal agency in national development.

This, he said, included the development and sustenance of a large pool of scholars, whose intellectual-scientific production would reposition Nigeria for greater responsibilities in national development.

Awuzie said the negotiating teams had agreed that the university system needed immediate and massive financial intervention, adding that it was agreed that a minimum of 26 per cent of the annual budget of the state and the federal governments should be allocated to education.

He said with this level of funding, the country could halt the growing inability of children of the underprivileged to get education.

Expressing regret over the inability of government to sign the agreement, he said: “Since December 2008, when the negotiation between the FGN-ASUU negotiating teams was completed, ASUU, despite having persuaded its members to exercise patience for over two years, once again, resolved to do its best to avoid a crisis. But government did not treat ASUU’s patience and restraint with sincerity.

“In March, we were first told that the agreement would be signed before the end of April. At the end of April we were told it would be signed on May 7. On May 7, we were told the Permanent Secretary was not in the country.”

The union said the Federal Government had, on many occasions, deceived it to come for meetings to sign the agreement with such meeting is turning out to be mere gimmicks.

This, the union said, led to the warning strike embarked upon by the union in May, adding that instead of signing the agreement, government had introduced foreign issues to the collective bargaining process.

He said: “Government set up a technical committee on an agreement without reference to the negotiating team; a ministerial committee was set up with terms of reference that would entirely nullify the essence of the negotiated agreement.

“There were even attempts to unilaterally change the agreement on the conditions of service. There was the false propaganda in the newspapers declaring N78 billion as the requirement of ASUU agreement.

“Our members have come to the conclusion that over two and a half years of patience is enough. They feel betrayed, duped and do not want to suffer any more psychological or moral trauma.”

The union said although the strike was indefinite, it could be as short as possible, if the government respected and signed the agreement reached with it.

Meanwhile, as ASUU began an indefinite strike on Monday, the Senate has berated the executive, saying that it was toying with the education sector.

It stated that the sector was so crucial to the foundation of the country that it could not be toyed with, urging the lecturers to exercise some restraint once more while they (senators) talk to the executive to find a way to meeting their aspiration based on the available resources.

Speaking through the chairman of the Senate Committee on Information, Senator Ayogu Eze on Monday, the Senate assured that when the Senate resumes today, the education committee would be involved “once and for all to see how we can resolve it.”

Senator Eze, who briefed journalists, said that: “But our take in the Senate is that the educational sector is so crucial to the foundation of this country that we cannot toy with it and we want to urge the lecturers to exercise some restraint once more, while we talk to the executive to find a way to meet their aspiration based on the resources available to it.”

According to him, the executive and the officials of the ASUU should be able to sit down at a roundtable to deliberate on how the agreement would be liquidated, believing that it “is proper and responsible that the agreements that have been reached with ASUU, should be honoured if they have actually been signed, as they are claiming.”

I agree with you
imhomoh,that is
the best solution
to all these messssssssssss

I like that topic too.
but who is with the
right information?
show up we need
your help pls.

Im suppose to round up my program
next year,with the situation on ground
only God can decide what will happen
and I pray for God intervention because
this is geting out of hand.

what about you?are you
affected too?

carry go jorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
but be ware of dog.

is the prices negotiable?

Guys and ladies,help me out,i really love her.
uptill now she still refuse my calls.