The graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN, will soon be able to participate in the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, and the Nigerian Law School, Abdallah Adamu, the vice chancellor of the institution has said.

Mr. Adamu made this known in an interview with PREMIUM TIMES.

“The fact is that the National University Commission(NUC) law doesn’t allow those who do part time studies to do NYSC and the original act that established NOUN says we offer courses by correspondence and that is the expression NYSC is using to say ‘if it’s a correspondence course then it is part time, if its part time then the students are not eligible for NYSC.’

“That’s why our students can’t go for NYSC. So, we have to remove that clause on our act that indicates we are part time.

“We want to amend the act. That is why we have been going to the National Assembly. We even had a public hearing. Luckily, it’s not even us that is now initiating it, it’s now the legislators themselves. They sponsor the bill themselves. It passed the first reading, passed the second reading then we went for public hearing and it passed public hearing and they brought it back to us just on Monday for any amendment before it will go for final hearing before it goes to the president for assent,” the professor said.

Mr. Adamu also said NOUN admission strength is on the rise. He said in 2001, about 32,400 students gained admission into the institution. The intake rose in 2011 to 57,759. Currently about 400,000 students are registered.

With 75 study centres across the country, NOUN offers over 50 programmes and 750 courses

The institution suspended its law programme on the advice of the NUC pending the resolution of the inability of its graduates to go to law school, the don said.

Mr. Adamu, however, said he expects the National Assembly to pass the appropriate bill to allow for law graduates to go to law school.

“When the bill is passed into law, then they have no right to block our students from participating. In fact, we can even sue them for denying our graduates their rights because we are no longer part time.”

When queried on what would be the fate of previously graduated students of NOUN, the professor brought a file that contains a list of all NOUN graduates and said, “this is the list of NOUN students who have graduated but could not go for NYSC, they are given exemption certificates and we are taking care of that. The only problem are those who are not up to 30 years who couldn’t collect exemption letters. Maybe by the time the process of amending the act must have been over they will be up to 30 and then we give them exemption letters.”

The National Open University of Nigeria is a federal Open and Distance Learning(ODL) institution, the first of its kind in the West African sub-region. It is Nigeria’s largest tertiary institution in terms of student numbers and is popularly referred to as ‘NOUN’.

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Lalasticlala Mynd44 seun Dominique

I pray it works

Taa gbafuo..

Another lie Mohammed?

We dey look nah

Coool

They better scrap that advanced secondary school

They said this since 2013 when I joined before I left dre and am sure it even before then they have been saying it believe this at ur own peril vision 2020

Soon and very soon.. We are going to see the Lord

As if the number of so called graduates who can't string a line of simple English is enough, let's bring in the glorified secondary schools. Let them come and be 'corpse' too.

okkk

FUTURE IMPOSSIBLE TENSE!!!!

smithsydny:
Another lie Mohammed?
We dey look nah

lol.... Funny you Bro Thomas

Nigeria matter tire me

Believe this news at your own peril.It is easier said than done.






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We have been hearing that for a long time

Bisjosh:
They better scrap that advanced secondary school

sis noun tough ooo
Very difficult and stressful

Forget that thing try and ask their student they will tell

this is good!

So even graduates from lesson don dey wan serve?


Cos the NOUN for my state belike lesson ooo

hopefully

Femich18:

lol.... Funny you Bro Thomas

baba how u take see am Nah.. Talk true

When we clamouring to scrap the shit nysc, NOUN are still keeping tab on it.... SMHW

Ok good one work on it

Since I was three years old I have heard that word "soon". It's yet to happen.

Bisjosh:
They better scrap that advanced secondary school

NOUN na advanced secondary school? most of your lecturers in your more advanced secondary school are receiving lecture in NOUN . Dont make a mistake, ok?

Nysc,- ok; law school - absolutely a joke Nysc,- ok; law school - absolutely a joke

joeace2020:
As if the number of so called graduates who can't string a line of simple English is enough, let's bring in the glorified secondary schools. Let them come and be 'corpse' too.

you too are not better than them, despite that you attended more glorified secondary school. your english shows it all.

mosesbola:
FUTURE IMPOSSIBLE TENSE!!!!

MuMu

mosesbola:
FUTURE IMPOSSIBLE TENSE!!!!

MuMu

We don't want them....they are substandard