The idea behind the existence of National Open University of Nigeria is to provide a flexible educational system for Nigerian students.

While efforts is been put in place to ensure this big goal is been achieved and more future role models spring up, more efforts need to be channeled into ensuring that this remains the focus.

A lot have gone wrong and NOUN has a lot of work to do to improve its system. It's a flexible program as you could study from anywhere, but it could be a waste of time, energy and resources if the following issues are not addressed swiftly.

1. Frequent cases of missing results (Results of students transferred from other study centres have been missing e.g results for 2018 first semester examination that ended July 2018, have not been released and till date nothing has been done about it by any staff, up to the Director of Study, Emevor Study Centre.

2. System error in result compilation. You write an exam with so much hope after adequate preparation, only to see Fs as your graded result. After much complaints staff claimed it was a NOUN system error nationwide and it would be corrected. We had to rewrite again as nothing was done to resolve this. Emevor study centre is a case study.

3. No staff shows concern to your complaints. They dont even have an answer to your questions, giving me a perception they were not trained. Nobody to hold responsible for their errors. Too bad!

70% of NOUN students are workers, studying and struggling to meet the requirements to earn a reasonable degree in school, after much stress at work, you get a little rest and you are left with few hours to study at the middle of the night, with nothing to show for it.

Students are frustrated, demotivated and highly disappointed due to these anomalies that have now become a consistent practice with NOUN system. Students are left to solve problems created by staff. I have friends and colleagues who opted out of the program as they believed they were been exorted and scammed by the school authority/unresolved errors.

With this level of FAILURE in NOUN, how do we raise role model.

Sincerely, I can not recommend NOUN to any Nigeria intending student, unless marked improvements on their systems are effected.

We need to voice out students! It's time to wake up. We can't be victims of the economy crisis and yet, our little stipend and effort turns out to be a waste due to National Open University of Nigeria Management errors.

I implore NOUN management to do something about this.

You'd be right by saying this.