I dont understand it.
On Saturday, September 21, 2013 11:09:10 PM UTC+1, Ikhide wrote:
-- There must be competent website building experts who can do a proper job, in Benin, in Nigeria and all over the world.
So what is going on?
In my view, though, there is a world of difference between university management, would would be responsible for the site, and ASUU, from my experience as a former teacher at Uniben, even though university management is in the hands of both academics and non-academics.
Active ASUU members were often not in management positions above heads of department.
A position as a head of department or above that places you in a delicate position because you are now part of the management of the system, which is often under the dictates of the Nigerian govt in a dispute with academic staff as represented by ASUU.
I did not experience university management being able to identify openly with ASUU in the various disputes with the govt even though the higher ranking staff who man those positions up to the VC are the largest beneficiaries of the salary increases ASUU struggled for, achieving a decisive breakthrough in the Babangida era, elevating lecturers from being people who either relied on problematic public transport, on trekking, or on unreliable ancient cars, such as the former VC who would recurrently be seen pushing his car to enable it start after it broke down in mid-transit, to people who could now buy reliable second hand cars.
The total prostration of university management to the dictates of the govt emerged in a particularly historic strike in the Abacha era when the union went on strike after its agreement with the govt was not revised as agreed after a stipulated time as stated in the agreement.
What did the govt do?
They directed that registers be opened in every dept, and declared that anyone who did not sign the register by a stipulated time should consider themselves out of work.
That was how the strike was broken.
Those who did not sign at Uniben actually lost their jobs.
I understand that Dr. Dimowo, the Uniben ASUU chairman, had his family evicted from their university quarters, under the orders of the VC, an academic.
A South-West VC put the dilemma he was faced with so well, in terms of a Nigerian proverb- if you are sent on an errand fit for a slave, you should deliver it as a freeborn.
Coming back to the present, I get impressive reports of Professor Oshodin, the current Uniben VC.
I wonder though, if he might not be expected to address the website problem, among his many duties.
Please to see a fine academic website go to that of Toyin Falola.
I used to very much admire the Harvard site but its current landing page seems rather busy to me.
Allow me to invite you to my own websites, distinctive for their subject matter and the style of addressing the subject, websites I designed using the free website template Wix.
The one on Gbemi Saraki might be the most visually appealing.
That on the art of Chamberlin Ukenedo uses a principle of visual order and progression adapted from Hindu and Buddhist yantra and mandala theory in which a geometric visual template acts as a portal for increasing levels of penetration into the realities they symbolise. I expect to provide text for each of the art works soon.
The one on Kingsley Nnnabuagha is interesting for its satiric force, being created in retaliation for his verbal attacks along similar lines as in the website during my disagreements with him on Nigerian centred online fora.
The other sites are at the Cognitive Platforms section of my central site for Compcros.
thanks
toyin
On Saturday, September 21, 2013 11:09:10 PM UTC+1, Ikhide wrote:
This is the website of my alma mater, the University of Benin, Nigeria. If it was my 14-year old son that built this I'd be ashamed! Why, I might even sue his school system. The larger scandal is that it probably cost millions of US dollars to build it. Guess where the money went. I am sure it was the white man's fault, imperialism, slavery, colonialism, whimper, whimper, whimper! Nonsense. There is something wrong with us.Oya, where is ASUU? I am sure it is the fault of the government that UniBen has a site as disgraceful as this!- IkhideStalk my blog at www.xokigbo.comFollow me on Twitter: @ikhideJoin me on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ikhide
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