The website of the Federal Ministry of
Education, www.fme.gov.ng, is down.
Although it could not be ascertained how
long it has been down, newsmen, who
visited the website on Monday, had
stumbled on the message, “This account
has been suspended.’’
No information was placed on the site to tell
visitors that it has moved to another domain
and no link was provided to redirect those in
search of information about the educational
system to a new one.
Besides, another website attributed to the
ministry online, fmegovng.org, is also “ailing’’
as the message on the site read, “This domain
name will be on Godaddy Auctions soon.”
Visitors to any of the two portals in search of
reports related to the ongoing industrial
action by university teachers may be
disappointed as the ministry literally has no
official website to inform interested members
of the public.
A check on some education parastatals in the
country shows that some of them are fast
taking a cue from the supervisory ministry
that is saddled with the responsibility for
defining and shaping the structure of the
education system in Nigeria.
For instance, a visit to the website of the
National Commission for Colleges of
Education, www.ncceonline.org, showed that
the information on the site was far from
being rich. The “About Us’’ is the only section
that the website has, while the welcome page
contains two articles which only informed
visitors on how to go about securing loan to
study in higher institutions of learning
abroad.
No mention was made of its activities,
pertaining to the regulation of colleges of
education in the country, as well as the
issuance of the National Certificate of
Education – the minimum certificate that
qualifies one to teach in the country.
The National Educational Research and
Development Council’s website,
www.nerdc.gov.ng, which prides itself as the
“think-tank of Nigerian education’’ is only a
little better than that of the NCCE.
The first information that caught the
attention of newsmen on the welcome page of
the website on Monday was the date on it.
The date on the site simply read Thursday,
September 05, 2013.
A click on the “Achievement’’ section of the
site, which was expected to give the track
record of the council from 2005 to 2012,
showed it was empty. The message on it read,
“This page is awaiting update.” A similarly
information was posted on the “Press
Release” section.
Besides, the website managers did not deem
it fit to input the contact person and phone
number of the designatedofficial at its area
office on 8, Orlu Street, Garki, Abuja as they
simply left the spaces meant for it blank.



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