The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) has given the University of Abuja approval to prepare its medical students for the final MBBS examinations.

This is coming 13 years after the university’s commencement of the medical programme.

The approval followed the final accreditation visit to the university by the MDCN on November 1, 2017, a statement by the Acting Registrar of the council, Dr. Tajudeen Sanusi, said.
The medical school which took off in 2005, has witnessed crises over the non-accreditation of its courses.

According to the statement, the situation changed two years ago with the provision of required facilities leading to the approval by the MDCN.

The council urged the university to proceed with the processes leading to the final MBBA examinations for its students.

It also directed that “You must notify council to send observers to the examinations at the appropriate time.”

In another development, the National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved the interim accreditation of the Computer Science and Microbiology courses of the university.

Director of Accreditation of NUC, Dr. Noel B. Saliu, while conveying the commission’s updated review of the May/June 2017 accreditation results to the university in a letter, said the interim accreditation status was valid for two years after which the programmes would be revisited.


www.dailytrust.com.ng/13-years-after-uniabuja-gets-approval-to-graduate-medical-students.html

Hmmm! It's been long overdue

It shows the degree of retrograde in the Nigerian educational system. How on earth will an accreditation take over a decade?. The system really needs to be revamped. I think what is being experienced in Kaduna state recently manifests the height of rot in the system. We can never meet the global standard if we keep on treading in this path..

This institution doesn't merit this approval.
If I were the Minister of Education many programs will scrapped from universities.
University of Abuja has NO BUSINESS offering medicine.

They should just graduate or transfer the current enrollees and end the program.

This country is just messed up. Institutions offering programs they lack the technical capacity for. Why wouldn't we have uneducated graduates

Mehn, the pioneer graduates don finish residency self though without certificate.

Our processes are as archaic as our leadership.

Kai

I know of a friend affected by this nonsense.
He practically left UNiAbuja a medical student pleading to be admitted into department of microbiology in Ife.

Ife in their usual behavior ignored him.

How them wan take write exam now.

After how many years of compulsory floating, please do not push in more quacks into the system bikonu

Nice development !?

It's a nice development

Of what use will it be now,after someone has spent five years out of university. Nigeria na wha

What of Accounting dept

Uniabuja na secondary school walahi

wow

Am very happy for them . thank God i wrote new jamb and finish service this from unibuja. then when you get to 400l you just have to go home hoping they will allow you write mb exams

Hmmm, so much rot in Nigeria university. wasting students life, Anyone interested in studying any medical course in Nigeria should just apply to fist generational universities like ui,oau,Abu,unilag. don't bother going to new schools that just started offering medic courses like university of medical sciences,ondo , the new private university.the individual will just get frustrated in life when your mates are graduating the individual will still be stagnant

Wow, good news, victory at last, i can remember vividly the story when some of the students came to air their plight in a phone in program in Abuja, lean on me, now they are now smiling.

deepwater:
Kai

I know of a friend affected by this nonsense.
He practically left UNiAbuja a medical student pleading to be admitted into department of microbiology in Ife.

Ife in their usual behavior ignored him.

How them wan take write exam now.

After how many years of compulsory floating, please do not push in more quacks into the system bikonu

durin d extra yrs, dy r stil attendin classes, series of tests n exams plus clinical postings. So dy r nt floatin..i spent a lil ova 8yrs too in ma sch, due to dix same acreditatn ish.

designVATExcel:
This institution doesn't merit this approval.
If I were the Minister of Education many programs will scrapped from universities.
University of Abuja has NO BUSINESS offering medicine.

They should just graduate or transfer the current enrollees and end the program.

This country is just messed up. Institutions offering programs they lack the technical capacity for. Why wouldn't we have uneducated graduates

[quote author=designVATExcel post=62207327]This institution doesn't merit this approval.
If I were the Minister of Education many programs will scrapped from universities.
University of Abuja has NO BUSINESS offering medicine.

They should just graduate or transfer the current enrollees and end the program.

This country is just messed up. Institutions offering programs they lack the technical capacity for. Why wouldn't we have uneducated graduates
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What r u saying. Am sure u have never been to unibuja b4 sef. If u know nothing about medicine and surgery in university of Abuja keep shut. It's better for you

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Can you please tell us more about uniabuja medicine