Unizik receives research materials from DFID , warns over defacing art works

State Partnership for Accountability Responsiveness and Capacity (SPARC) an arm of the Department for International development of the United Kingdom Aid of British Government (DFID) has presented some research materials to Nnamdi Azikiwe University. The gesture is in a bid to promote best practices in institutions, public service system and support the policies of the government through human development, implementation of budget and monitoring as well as high productivity by the workforce.

While presenting the research materials to the University Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joseph E. Ahaneku, FAS, the State Programme Manager, DFID, SPARC Enugu and Anambra State, Barr. Sam Onyia emphasized that the body is geared towards monitoring implementation of policies, equipping the workforce, managing resources and restructuring the labour force towards providing efficient service delivery.

Receiving the donation, the Vice-Chancellor, expressed appreciation to members of the team for their kind gesture, he stressed that the donated research materials will serve as a reference point to both staff and students of the university as well as enhance capacities and competences among members of the University Community.

Prof. Ahaneku also commended the Head of Department, Mass Communication Prof. Stella Okunna for her efforts at attracting such research and training materials. The team was received by some members of the University management.

This is a members of the University Community have been asked to stop and discourage the act of defacing public sculptural pictures, paintings and such art works by pasting bills and notice on them. These art-works strategically placed conspicuously at various points, are wrongly used as good background for placing notices of diverse kinds, which disfigure them and distort the information they are supposed to pass to the public.

Prof. Cliff Nwanna, former Head, Department of Fine and Applied Arts, extended the appeal in the course of conducting a public enlightenment and sensitization roadwork organized by the Department to mark the 2016 World Sculpture Day.

Prof. Nwanna, an authority in Creative Arts, and Sculpture Specialist said that the Department wanted to use the opportunity of the International Day declared by the United Nations Organization (UNO) to educate the Community on the culture of respect for art-works and what they represent and symbolize.
According to him, Sculptural Pieces have life of their own, derived from their special significance and therefore should not be abused and misused but protected and preserved so that they save their purpose. 24th of April every year is World Sculpture Day, during which attention is drawn to sculptural activities and benefits, derived from them