Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, on Saturday in Abuja bagged a Master’s Degree in Theology at
the fifth convocation of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).
The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof. Vincent Tenebe, said in his address at the ceremony
that Obasanjo was among other notable Nigerians in the list of the 10,653 graduands in which 15 of
them made first class honours.
Tenebe listed other outstanding graduands as the Emir of Hadejia, Jigawa State, Alhaji Adamu
Abubakar and the traditional ruler of Awgu, Enugu State, Igwe Felix Okechukwu.
Others were over 70 years Rear Admiral Orisha, (Rtd), who bagged fist class in Mathematics and a
78-year-old, Chief Femi Balogun, who bagged LL.B from the School of Law.
The vice-chancellor also listed a blind student, Mr Obinna Bede, who bagged a Bachelor of Arts
(English), degree and Udo Effiong, who had the highest cumulative point in first class grade of 4.71.
It is interesting to note that Obasanjo will be graduating with a Master’s Degree (MA-Christian
Theology) having met the requirements for the award during this convocation.
“Having been given the admission to study MA/PhD in Christian Theology, Obasanjo will continue
with his Ph.D fully.
“This is very unique considering his age and commitments; he also made a very good cumulative
grade point,’’ the VC said.
Tenebe said that NOUN had achieved its primary mandate of having study centres in all the state
capitals across the country.
According to him, the institution will commence the last aspect of its mandate, which is to establish
study centres in all the 774 local governments in the next 15 years.
He said that the total number of study centre across the country stood at 72 alongside four new
research centres.
Tenebe appealed to relevant authorities to admit graduates of NOUN into law school as was done in
other countries.
“We will not relent in our appeal to the Council for Legal Education to give NOUN Law graduates the
opportunity to attend the Law School and be called to the Bar.
“If other countries such as UK, India, South Africa, Tanzania, among others allow their Open
Universities’ Law graduates to attend Law School and are called to the Bar, Nigeria has no justifiable
reasons to hold her Open University graduates down.
“We must move forward in all these areas as a progressive country,’’ he said.
In his address, NOUN’s Chancellor, Igwe Lawrence Agubuzu, said that there were 59 open
universities in the World, adding that their graduates were treated differently from graduates of
conventional universities.
Agubuzu called on the National Youth Service Corps and the Nigerian Law School to allow NOUN
graduates to participate in their progammes.
NAN reports that Chief Obasanjo received the award by proxy as he was said to unavoidably absent.
NOUN’s 2016 convocation was held for the first time at University Village, Jabi, which was allocated
to the institution in 1983.
Link. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/noun-convocation-obasanjo-bags-masters-degree-15-get-1st-class-honours/

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