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AdaobiJerry:
ANTHONYO my study center is in benin but am currently in Lagos, can I take my WAEC certificate to any NOUN study center in lagos?

Nope! ...U would av to go to ur Study centre...Buh try and confirm frm ur course mates before going back to Benin

NOUN NEW UPDATES- ATTENTION, ALL STUDENTS WHO GAINED ADMISSION BETWEEN MAY 2015-DEC 2016 ARE REQUIRED TO BRING THE ORIGINAL AND PHOTOCOPY OF THEIR WAEC/NECO CERTIFICATES TO THE REGISTRY IN ORDER TO VERIFY THEIR STUDENTSHIP ON OR BEFORE 27TH OF MARCH 2017. KINDLY NOTE THIS IS VERY URGENT. MANAGEMENT..

NYSC AND IT'S UNLAWFUL DISCRIMINATION AGAINST NOUN STUDENTS BY Elias Ozikpu

As Nigerians, one of the distasteful cultures that we grow up to inherit is the flagrant disobedience of established laws which is often executed with boundless impunity. One of the delusional convictions of those championing this cause is the belief that their actions cannot be challenged by anyone, however grave and unlawful such actions may be. This is largely so since the society, for quite a long time in the history of its existence, has consciously encouraged and even nurtured the culture of indiscipline, recklessness and total disregard for the laws of the land. The result of this unfortunate system is that it has successfully created a society with individualistic government, thereby invalidating the supreme laws of the land. This is a monumental tragedy and the reason for which our society has acquired a broken leg. More disheartening is the reality that the vices responsible for this deformity have grown so bold and ravenous!
To avoid misconceptions of all shapes and sizes, it is proper to emphatically state that this article is solely aimed at questioning the unlawful decision of the authorities of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to debar fellow students of the National Open University of Nigeria from participating in the one year service scheme like other universities across the nation. That no one has risen to properly challenge this deplorable decision strikes me with unusual puzzlement.

I must, unapologetically, affirm that there is no legal ground on which the authorities of NYSC should bar students of the National Open University of Nigeria or any accredited university in Nigeria from participating in the scheme. I will prove this by presenting clauses as contained in the NYSC Act. Whilst I present these clauses, certain words may be capitalised for emphasis. Such emphasis are entirely mine, employed to achieve certain effects:

Section 2(1) of the NYSC Act says:

‘Subject to the provision of this Decree, EVERY NIGERIAN shall

a. if, at the end of the academic year 1972-73 or, as the case may be, at the end of any subsequent academic year, he shall have graduated at ANY university in Nigeria.’

Quite obviously, the Act did not indicate the exclusion of graduates of National Open University of Nigeria or any other accredited university. It explicitly said ANY UNIVERSITY IN NIGERIA, and National Open University is clearly not a Congolese institution. I challenge the authorities of the NYSC to repudiate the existence of this clause. My deduction, therefore, is that the ongoing discrimination against fellow students of National Open University of Nigeria is the product of those running the agency, who have resorted to apply personal sentiments in a desperate attempt to squash ethical standards.

Although the Act did provide, in clearly written clauses, circumstances that may render certain graduates ineligible to participate in the Service Corps, these clauses pointed no finger at students of National Open University of Nigeria or any other accredited university in the country. I have presented the clauses below whilst putting the general public on the Judge’s seat:

Section 2 (2) says:

‘Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, with effect from 1st August, 1985, a person shall not be called upon to serve in the service corps; at the date of his graduation or obtaining his diploma or other professional qualification –

a. He is over the age of thirty

b. He has served in the armed forces of the Federation or the Nigeria Police Force for a period of more than nine months

c. He is a member of any of the following, that is:

i. The Nigerian Security Organisation

ii. The State Security Service

iii. The National Intelligence Agency

iv. The Defence Intelligence Service

d. He has been conferred with any National Honour.

After rendering the above clauses as contained in the NYSC Act, it remains to me an inscrutable mystery why authorities of NYSC should unlawfully debar Nigerian graduates from National Open University of Nigeria and with no one raising an eyebrow at the scale of such brazen injustice. I should like to learn, is this facile discrimination a way of questioning the intellectual competence of graduates of the institution? Or a way of expressing inordinate antipathy towards these graduates? Let me say, with boundless certitude that the feeling of antipathy and the obvious scepticism they nurse as regards our intellectual competence have nicely manifested into this fully-fledged discrimination.

The point of my observations should be quite clear by now, namely that the NYSC scheme is NOT the prerogative of any university in Nigeria as the authorities of the agency have made it to be! And that the authorities of NYSC are legally incapacitated to debar graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria or any other accredited university in Nigeria from participating in the scheme. That this simple truth is glossed over is largely due to the fact that (as I stated at the beginning of this article), our society has fostered a world where scorning or trampling on established laws attract a standing ovation. Preposterous!

I have previously read articles telling stories about how NYSC awards ‘Certificate of Exemption’ to graduates of National Open University of Nigeria. Doing so is to brutally insult the intellectual sensibilities of these students who are not less gifted than their counterparts in other universities. Can no one see the unreserved antipathy that this agency holds towards these students? Can no one feel the undercurrent hostility against a group of students who clearly have the backing of the law on the matter under reference? That the authorities of the National Open University of Nigeria have made no single reference to the NYSC Act, a document recognised in Section 315 (5) (a) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, leaves behind a trail of questions on the supposed spirited efforts by the University to ensure its students are mobilised for the Service Corps exercise. It is unthinkable that the world should continue to look on with such utter silence whilst some individuals run the terrible risk of creating factions in our academic community. In the midst of this ominous situation, what appears frightening to me is that no one seems to understand the insidious implications of allowing the survival of such factions.

Partnering in this despicable business of discrimination against graduates of National Open University of Nigeria is the Council of Legal Education (CLE) that has firmly sworn never to admit Law graduates from National Open University of Nigeria into the Nigerian Law School. Well, let me not dance with two deadly masquerades in the face of this terrible night. God willing, I will strongly address the Council of Legal Education on their discriminatory stance in another article.

For now, what I must say is that we cannot embark on this dangerous trip of celebrating prejudice without undermining our own progress and civilisation as a nation and as a people. To this, I must seek your permission to quote a very brilliant assertion by one of the world’s greatest thinkers and writers, Professor Chinua Achebe. Hear him:

‘America, which we copy when it suits us, should provide an excellent example to us in this connection: that although we may not be able to legislate prejudice and bigotry out of the hearts and minds of individual citizens, the state itself and all its institutions must not practice, endorse or condone such habits.’

Professor Chinua Achebe made this loud cry thirty-two years ago, some years before Providence ushered me into a world where justice is sadly the scarcest commodity. It is not surprising, therefore, that with the pace of civilisation in the 21st century, individuals
and even state-owned institutions in Nigeria are still being pictured casting narcissistic glances at the garments of discrimination in which they clad. With the weight of this guilt resting so precariously upon us, I am left with the heart-rending conclusion that we quite do not have the moral justification to question the consistent racial prejudice that our compatriots get subjected to in the West. Doing so would be quite hypocritical, to say the least. Indeed, the wanton and colossal destruction inflicted upon the Nigerian soul by these champions of discrimination is simply unforgivable!

There exist no tenable reasons for negotiating, pleading, or holding discussions of any kind with those heading the Service Corps in a bid to persuade them to ‘consider’ students of National Open University of Nigeria to participate in a scheme for which they already have the full endorsement of the law. But here lies the unprepossessing antithesis of life, particularly in a society like ours where injustice has been so extolled to a point where the victim, unfortunate as always, must be loud in heaping adulatory songs upon his fierce-looking oppressor.

Although the management of NYSC may not be armed with the natural decency to render any apology to students of National Open University of Nigeria for this long-standing injustice, they must, however, reverse their unlawful decision within the maximum period of one month from the date of this publication. In the event that they insist on treading on this anarchical path, authorities of the National Open University of Nigeria should, on the reliable strength of the quoted clauses contained in the NYSC Act, immediately take DECISIVE STEPS to ensure that it defends the interest of its victimised students, using the appropriate channels as prescribed by the law. If the University fails to intervene in spite of the revelation of the above clauses, such silence shall be construed as complicity.

For now, this is what I have to say on the lingering issue of NYSC at the National Open University of Nigeria. And now that I have cleared the heavy cloud in my heart, sleep will pay me a visit tonight!

Elias Ozikpu studies at the National Open University of Nigeria. He is an activist, playwright, novelist, polemicist.

ATTENTION!!! ATTENTION!!!
Your IT starts anytime you are ready and have the requisite documents. If you are ready to get yours now, go to ur study centre and do the needful.

BENIN-STUDY CENTER : List of recently approved project topics now available on school's notice board

Vice-Chancellor, Prof Abdalla Uba Adamu, middle, hosting the management of The Authority Newspapers, led by its MD/Editor-in-Chief, Mr Modu Onuarah, in his office.

The entourage includes the newspaper's Executive Director, South East, Joe Nwankwo, Editor, Saturday, Malachy Uzendu, General Manager, (Administration), Nse Okunlola and Head, Advertising, Mercy Kataiko.

They are at the university's headquarters to pay a courtesy and congratulate him over his appointment.

chidexkelly113:
please can someone help me, i am trying to log in on tma portal but i get an error message and i cannot do my TMA,
is because of the upgrade of site, and if yes, how long will it take. i don tire for all this Change era. even NOUN portal have being affected by CHANGE and students are suffering.....
please help!!!

I also need a student group chat that can feed me information about the progress of school(NOUN)
my contact is:08095696822

. Try later!!!

Profandie:
I think Mushin is beta. Where is d exact location pls and tanks for d response

. Mushin Study Centre: Noun Study Centre, FataiAtere way, off Agege, motor road, Matori, Lagos.

ATTENTION NOUNITES!!!
You are advised not to register your courses and exams on phone because you may not be able to print it later...

Mortipher:
Guys please, can I go to the HQ at VI to see if my name is on the graduate list. And if I can which office should I head to. It's urgent please.

HQ is now @ Abuja not VI...If ur Study Centre is VI ur to go to the Admin office

engrj:
Pls is facilitation available for 400L student pol science Mushin study centre?

YES

INTERVIEW : Mass-communication, Accounting, Others, Were Not Suspended - - NOUN Media and Publicity Chairman

Ibrahim Sheme is the media and publicity chairman of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). In this exclusive phone interview with Trust IMPACTTRUSTPRINTSINFO. he speaks on students' challenges and NOUN Management's efforts towards resolving them.

ITF: Sir, formerly, in the old portal, there was a provision for students to drop wrongly registered courses, but in this new portal, www.nouonline.com, it's not so. Is the management making efforts towards resolving this issue?

SHEME : Yes! But currently, study centers do not have the access to do that. The developers of the new website are at the headquarters and are making provisions for it. So, based on what they told me, in subsequent batches, dropping of courses would be possible and the link available to study centers.

ITF : Two weeks ago, a news went viral that some courses like Mass-communication, business administration, Accounting, etc have been suspended. How true is this information?

SHEME : I am not aware of that. The only course that was suspended is law.

ITF : Does that mean there's no official suspension of any course aside law?

SHEME : Yes. There's no official embargo on any other course. It's only law that was suspended because of their issue with legal Council registration. So based on my knowledge, no other course as we speak, was suspended.

ITF : What of the examination date for PEN-ON-PAPER examination this semester. Is it still going to Commence on March 20th or WILL it be post-poned because of the transition still going on, on the new website?

SHEME : Actually, I don't have information on that. What I know is that the school management is making developments in this new portal, and it has delayed some students. So, they are putting that into consideration while deciding when to begin the exam.

ITF: You said the developers of the new website undertake in resolving the challenges of most students and that the developers reside in Abuja. Is there any channel to contact them?

SHEME : For now, there's no channel. Most times they ask students to come to Abuja. But I will find out more and get back to you if any such link is created.

NOUN STUDENTS AND LAW SCHOOL CONTROVERSY!!!

As the controversy between the students of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) and the Council of Legal Education (CLE) over the non admission of law graduates from the former into Nigerian Law School lingers, some Nigerians have expressed worry at the situation and hope for a peaceful resolution of the matter.
The NOUN is the only distance learning institution in Nigeria with all its courses duly accredited by the National Universities Commission (NUC) including its controversial law programme. At first, Nigerians distanced themselves from the programme believing that their courses wouldn’t be recognised. But that position was later debunked while confidence in the institution increased with more enrolments.
However, since the institution began to produce graduates, they are said to be discriminated by federal institutions such as National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), and their law graduates are rejected by the Nigerian Law School. This has led to the institution of a legal suit by the law students before a Federal High Court judge in Port Harcourt.
The stand of CLE is that NOUN is not accredited to run a law programme. Speaking in Abuja at a briefing to commence the 50 years anniversary of the Nigerian Law School, the Chairman of the Council, Mr. Onueze Okocha (SAN), said anyone who studied law at NOUN and hoping to secure admission to the Law School was merely wasting their time and resources.
He said: “It is foolhardy for someone to establish, put in his money and then choose to run an illegal faculty of law… I don’t want them to waste their monies and time. They should seek transfer to accredited universities. “
Similarly, the Director General of the Nigerian Law School, Dr.Tahir Mamman, said anyone who only wanted to have an acquaintance with the law could go to a non-accredited university to study law. “But if they want to become legal practitioners, they have to go to accredited universities”.
Speaking on the issue, a Port Harcourt-based legal practitioner, and civil rights crusader, Barrister Chijioke Agi, urged NOUN to stop admitting students into its Law Faculty until the issue it has with the Nigerian Law School over the non admission of its law graduates is resolved.
He explained that in the 1990s, the CLE abolished part time programme in law in Nigerian universities to check half-baked lawyers and regretted that the introduction of law in NOUN’s curriculum was a re-enactment of the old order. He said the legal tussle between NOUN students and CLE in the Federal High Court was yet to be determined.
Hear him: “Until the legal battle between NOUN students and Council for Legal Education is determined, NOUN should not admit students into that faculty. This is because to become a lawyer, the law graduate must pass through the law school.
“It makes no sense that one is a law graduate yet not a lawyer.” The legal practitioner remarked that though NOUN’s ten faculties were accredited by the NUC, the other faculties are running without hitches except the law faculty.
However, another legal practitioner based in Port Harcourt, Mr. Tambo Tambo, disagrees with the position of the Council of Legal Education. He says law is a liberal discipline which can be studied anywhere.
He condemned the deliberate discrimination and victimisation of the NOUN law graduates by the CLE coupled with the delay tactics the body has employed to slow down the matter in court. According to him, the tactics could bring the worst from the students.
“I have been following that issue because my immediate younger brother is affected. He is a law student of NOUN. The stand of the Council of Legal Education on the matter is not founded on any known fact. It rather portrays the Council as being in the dark about best practices in the 21st century.
“Even in the United Kingdom from where our current legal system is derived, distance legal education is authorised by the Law Society of England and Wales as a qualifying law degree and as one of the possible ways to become a barrister or solicitor. In several other countries influenced by the British legal tradition, legal education can be obtained through distance learning.
“For instance, in countries like India, Indonesia, Australia etc. law can be learnt by correspondence. In fact, many of our older lawyers and judges had their legal degrees by distance learning. It was at the point of attending the law schools their physical presence was required.
“Not recognising NOUN law graduates on the basis of non-existing barriers will affect our nation and rob it of the advantages such learning mode will confer on the country. I, therefore, call on the Justice Minister to intervene through the exercise of his powers to direct the CLE to recognise NOUN law graduates,” he stated.
A third year law student of NOUN, Port Harcourt centre, Mr. Zebulon Onomefor, wonders why the CLE would fail to recognise the law programme of the open university when NUC had already given it approval to operate.
He says the lack of accreditation of NOUN law programme is keeping them uncertain about whether to remain in the school or move to a conventional university to complete it. He appealed to the vice-chancellor of the institution to work hard and get the problem settled.
“This issue ought not arise in the first place, especially when NUC has recognised and approved the law programme. Why is the Council of Legal Education insisting on not recognising the course? I don’t agree that the programme is run on part time basis.
“See we have classes almost every day depending on the year of study. Do you call that part time? What is the mode of study in conventional universities after all? Let the vice-chancellor solve this problem for us as he has promised,” he said.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who saw to the final take-off of the open university, had during a visit to him by the national body of the Law Students Association (LAWSA), urged the students, particularly the law graduates of NOUN, to be patient with the authorities. He said he noticed some students complaining about law accreditation in NOUN and stated his belief that the law programme had come to stay.
In what appears like a sign of better days ahead, the Vice-Chancellor of NOUN, Prof. Abdalla Adamu, reassured the law students of the effort of the school’s management to ensure that they completed their legal education by attending the law school. He said the matter was receiving attention at the National Assembly.
But the question both the law students and graduates of the programme, who are awaiting law school admission have always asked is, when will that day come? Indeed will it ever come? Time shall tell.

YOU ARE INVITED FOR SIWES DEFENCE ON WEDNESDAY 8th MARCH BY 10.am, VENUE UPSTAIRS BUILDING, OWERRI STUDY CENTRE. PLEASE INFORM OTHERS

oyegbe:
Please I need help, what is the current amount for siwes registration and the procedure. I have been to My study center and no body could give tangible answer, all I got is i don't know go and ask your friend as if i know any one in 300 level who have register for siwes this semester before.

How To Commence Your IT Now That Portal Is Inaccessible 

By Idada Precious (Repota Atlarge) 

BENIN-STUDY CENTER : The management of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), has improvised a method which enables students due for Industrial Training (IT) commence the training pending on when the school's new website, www.nouonline.com is fully accessible.

Recall that in the previous semesters, for one to Commence his or her IT, first, the individual must register it on the portal, printout the course registration slip, generate a Remita number, pay N1,000 into the SIWES account for logbook , pay another N400 for IT letters then staple all the necessary payment receipts coupled with the address of where the student will do the IT. 

But now, due to the inaccessibility of the school website, the procedures improvised are : 

1. Go to the department in charge of IT in your study center (For Benin, it's the account or counselors office), pay N200 to generate Remita number. 

NOTE : Don't generate remita number BY yourself . 

2. Take the Remita Number, ask for SIWES account where money for Logbooks are paid in, (PS : Last semester, logbook was free) then pay the sum of N1,000 to the account. 

3. After payment, return to the the the IT department, show them the payment teller then request for your IT letter. It would be filled, stamped and given to you. 

You are expected to write the address of where you intend doing your IT in a piece of paper. That is what will be used to fill your letter. 

4. Go to the organization you intend doing the IT and submit the letter. 

However, when the portal is finally accessible, register the IT(Course and exam), if not, you won't be graded after the IT. 

Note : THIS IS THE PROCEDURE IN BENIN-STUDY CENTER. IT MAY NOT BE APPLICABLE TO OTHER CENTERS, BUT IF IT IS NOT, ENCOURAGE THE APPROPRIATE AUTHORITIES TO ADOPT THE METHOD.

fatai4change:
I paid d compulsory fee and registered my courses bt cudnt register 4 exams b4 d portal was closed last semester.

Pls i want to knw if my registration remains valid and i wil just pay to regista 4 exams ds semester?

I am in d last semester of my MSC

Pls acknwlge

Check ur Study Centre cus this is a new platform

Emanus:
Please some of my results were not showing. Please what do I do. I am tired
08108809626

. Be Patient!!! I bet u what ur expecting is what u will see...Just be patient they are solving every errors

YOU ARE INVITED FOR SIWES DEFENCE ON WEDNESDAY 8th MARCH BY 10.am, VENUE UPSTAIRS BUILDING, OWERRI STUDY CENTRE. PLEASE INFORM OTHERS

To check your result, add the number on your matriculation number to the link below and click.

xres.nouonline.com/nouresult/pages/sess.php?Returnurl=Nou

Note : The portal is slow, so keep retrying until you see your result.

Best of Luck

On E-EXAM (100 level -200 level) including diploma and certificate will use computer for their E-EXAM... The Nature of the questions will be in CBT form, Some questions can be 1-150 or 1-120 (Intranet) which may include filling the gaps with short comprehension in form of obj..Do not be afraid, it is just for u to read ur course material and also work on ur TMA....From 300 -400 upward is pen on paper exam...Inform of Essay which will contain 5 standard theory questions in which you may be asked to answer 3 or 4 depending on ur department and it may contain compulsory questions unlike conventional University in which u may be given ur area of concentration, u just have to pray and read the course material from page 1 to the end....

Question 2. Eng 101 contain 4 module and pages are not number but it contain appr. 230 pages, u can easily read it, u don't need any tape recorder.

3.Question 3. Compression of Semester. Yes it very possible to determine the N0 of semester to use. For example PGD in Education according to NOUN will take u 2 to 3 semester but for a serious minded person like u, u can register for all the courses provided...If u have the money and sit for the exam. once you pass all the compulsory courses what else.

Question 4. Payment deadline for registration. Yes there is deadline for registration as u know NOUN is very flexible the registration used to be extended toward the registration of exam and once registration of exam begins u cannot do course registration even if u are the first son of VC. 
For more info abt Noun u can call or WhatsApp 08185025045

Lectures are on going now at various study centres
# The picture shown is MUSHIN STUDY CENTRE!!

Please be inform that, facilitations or tutorial classes have been provided by the school authority and you are advised to report at the Study Centre every Saturdays to witness this development. Many thanks in anticipation.
Lectures are ongoing now!!! It's free

Join Attend Vantage Study Centre (AVSC) Today For The Best Noun Tutorials @ No.45 Akobi Crescent,off Caxton Street, Ojuelegba, Surulere, Lagos or call 08185025045,08119855931 For More Information...

New Website: NOUN Students Continue To Experience Challenges

It all started with an abrupt shutting down of TMA on the old portal. Rumour quickly went round that a new portal is in the offing. The VC announced that the new website will be a complaint website, where

students can complain and report dissatisfying activities in their study centre and that the new portal will save cost. Students anticipated a ‘great website’.

The new website arrived and was greeted with happiness. The ‘saviour website’ has come. The problem started when students couldn’t log in. The website doesn’t recognize the real NOUNites, you have to register afresh. The VC said the old contractors are yet to release their data and the horrible experience continues, students were asked to go the study centre for manual registration. Some students were lucky to get registered while others have been technically kept out of their portal till date.

Apart from login problems, generating RRR is another challenge. Some students have tried umpteen times and no success. Some complained that the portal has not reflected their payment, the problem was ascribed to payment in Zenith bank. Though some student-invented solutions worked in some cases but never did in some other cases.

When result landed, the story continues. Students who failed were disappointed; they banked on the 25marks promised by unconfirmed sources. Missing result was reported, students did not have a whole semester’s result computed. We can’t decipher the cases of 0points.

In the middle of all these crises, TMA portal has opened and POP is on its way. The whole scenario is confusing and unpredictable. The VC said students should be patient that the old portal took 3 years to gain stability. I think by then most of us would have graduated anyway.
In truth, some students had it all smooth. Re-registration, payment, RRR, Results was all smooth for them. The always-in-maintenance mode portal has given every student unique experience.

Ernie23:
I was denied admission for M.sc Mass Communication, can i apply for another course using the same RRR?

Your to generate another RRR if ur applying for another course

The Council of Legal Education (CLE) was established by the Federal Government as a body to administer vocational training to all law graduates from universities accredited by the National Universities

Commission (NUC),aspiring to practice as advocates and solicitors of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. The Nigerian Law School (NLS) wholly owned by the Federal Government is earmarked for that purpose under the management of CLE.

By statute, powers of the Council are delineated to training of law graduates while NUC Act exclusively vests powers of regulations and accreditation of universities programmes in NUC.
Categorically, all universities are licensed by the Federal Government; academic programmes are accredited by NUC, while professional bodies carry out supervisory roles. Nevertheless, all work harmoniously towards efficient service delivery.

Section 4 of Legal Education (Consolidations etc.) Act, says subject to this Act, the Attorney-General of the Federation may give the Council directions of a general character with regard to the exercise by the Council of its functions and it shall be the duty of the Council to comply with such directions”.
Thus, the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, representing the Federal Government oversees operations of the Council. Regrettably, the AGF had in futility issued directives to the Council to grant admission quota to National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).
In a similar vein, all professional bodies overseeing respective university programmes statutorily queue under the NUC and thus report to the regulatory body. Where non compliance vis-à-vis ethics of any of the professions is detected, the respective professional body could give directions to the university.
Where deviance is intense, a petition to the NUC and or recommendation for sanctions may follow suit.

By this arrangement, professional bodies including the CLE unequivocally lack powers to sanction or reject accreditation status on universities by the regulatory body. Unfortunately, NOUN’s accreditation by the NUC was arbitrarily snubbed by the Council despite clearly demarcated functions.
Splendid, the Federal Government, pursuant to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on education through Open and Distance Learning (ODL), established NOUN, and today, the institution which kicked off with ten schools including the Faculty of Law has become the largest in the country.

Unfortunately, the CLE glowered on ODL, disregarding the fact that the world is now in a digital age. Noteworthy is the unrestricted admission. Policy of NOUN, unlike the conventional universities where admissions are based on nepotism and monetized; and in most cases purchased in huge sums thereby depriving the underprivileged the right to get admissions in disciplines of choice.
Apart from that, ODL offers unique opportunities different from the conventional techniques chiefly on flexibility thereby enables citizens get quality education amidst obvious conundrums.
NOUN’s first set graduated with high hopes since 2012 but while awaiting admission quota to the Law School, met a shocker from CLE that discredited their certificates and arbitrarily denied them entry into the facility wholly owned by the Federal Government. Meanwhile, CLE is made up of practicing lawyers similar to lecturers in NOUN’s. Faculty of law.
Basically, the position of CLE cannot be justified on account that practicing lawyers from conventional universities lecture and examine NOUN law students with the same books and course outlines.

Without doubt, the key factor presented by the Council which centred on standardisation of the noble profession is long overdue. Unfortunately, it was narrowed to ODL which is akin to ‘divide and rule’ approach whereby the deteriorating values in the profession so far are from products of the conventional universities.
In other words, CLE ought to look lengthily on how to improve the standard of legal profession instead of parochially tagging a particular university’s modes. The world is changing swiftly and Nigeria cannot be socially quarantined.

Interestingly, most graduates from distance learning are distinguished in the profession while on the other hand, several law graduates from the conventional universities are still unable to get rid of the law school studies; hence, it goes beyond designation of universities but a cogent need for broad reforms. Even if degree in law is to be pursued as secondary degree, it should be conceptualized on general applications.

By the Council’s delay in admitting NOUN law graduates, innocent citizens who spent time and resources to complete course modules comparable to their fellows in the conventional universities have been spitefully hindered from undergoing training for practice and enrolment to the bar, knowing that in Nigeria, advocate and solicitor are fused, hence without enrolment to the bar, the basic tool for practice is denied. This is the height of injustice, despotism and perniciousness.
NOUN graduates should as of right be granted admission into the law school while the CLE and other stakeholders work concertedly towards improving on the system.
edies shouldn’t be at the detriment of innocent third-parties.

My Result’ is not available on your portal for now because IT guys are working on.

It was deactivated so that the results will be fixed, corrected and updated. Lot of students complained of errors and incomplete results when the result was initially released.

We hope complaints will be at minimum when the results are reloaded.

What a time in the life of NOUN.

BE INFORMED : Collection of course materials has commenced ur various study centre

BE INFORMED

For those who can't find their results any longer on the portal, please note that NOUN has withdrawn them. It's believed they are working on the results.

So, be optimistic.