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The  Vice-Chancellor, University of Nigeria, Prof. Bartho Okolo has invited  Nigerian Journalists to join the campaign aimed at restoring the  priority of education in the South–East.

In a speech delivered at  the 2nd edition of South-East media summit held at the Nike Lake Hotel,  Enugu, Prof. Okolo lamented the decline in enrolment figure among male  students in the South East and said the time was ripe to halt the ugly  trend.

"I would also like to use this forum to invite you to join a  campaign that is very close to my heart. It is a campaign that seeks to  restore education to our priority in the South-eastern Nigeria. Every  now and then we read about the decline in number of children, especially  boys, going to school in the South–East and it feels abstract because  the reports are not backed with figures and statistics. However, I can  tell you the situation is serious and we need a campaign to reverse the  trend", he said

The Vice-Chancellor, who spoke through the Deputy  Vice-Chancellor (Enugu Campus), Prof. Ifoma Enemo, also expressed worry  that South-East entrepreneurs who have the wherewithal to champion the  revival of the spirit of education in the zone were more interested in  building hotels instead of schools, a development he said had scattered  students from the region to other zones in the country where they go in  search for private schools.

Further, Prof Okolo enjoined the  journalists to discharge their duties within the confines of their  professional ethics, noting that the theme of the summit-Role of the  Media in South East Integration- was a reflection that journalists in  the region were alive to their social responsibility.

The  Vice-Chancellor expressed the readiness of UNN Mass Communication  Department, which is one of the oldest schools of journalism in the  country, to partner with journalists to organise a seminar where their  professional ethics would be discussed. According to him, "Such a  discussion has become necessary in the light of recent advances in  journalism, especially the emergence of internet-based publications and  the social networks".  

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Librarians  from different parts of the country, Tuesday, berthed at the University  of Nigeria, Nsukka to learn the application of free and open source  software to create, generate and disseminate information in Nigerian  libraries. The training was under the auspices of Librarians'  Registration Council of Nigeria, (LRCN) in collaboration with the  National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA)  

The  Registrar/CEO of LRCN, Dr. Victoria Okojie, said that the workshop was  necessitated by the need to acquaint librarians with the requisite ICT  skill that will dispose them to meet the demands of information seekers.  

"This workshop aims to make librarians and information managers  aware of the possibilities Free and Open-Source Software offer Nigerian  Libraries to evolve and to facilitate information sharing. It will also  strengthen their technical capacity in deploying FOSS tools such as  DSpaceTM, GreenstoneTM, KohaTM and ABCDTM.

"We are here to encourage  knowledge workers in Nigeria to share experience and exchange  information through the available communication technology platform",  she said.

Dr Okojie maintained that the software was free, accessible  and easy to maintain, but regretted that most librarians were either  not aware of its availability or lacked the skills to use the facility.

 While  thanking the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Prof. Bartho  Okolo and the University Librarian Prof. Charles Omekwu, for providing a  congenial environment for the workshop, the registrar noted that the  University of Nigeria library was the best she had seen in the country  both in terms of size and facilities.

The commissioner for education,  Enugu state, Prof. Chris Okoro, said that the state government was  paying attention to the development of libraries in the state and making  ICT infrastructure available to people at the grassroots. He promised  to partner with the LRCN to train Librarians in Enugu State. Read More (http://www.unn.edu.ng/cms/librarians-train-information-softwaer-unn)

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