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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