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NOUN PORTAL FINALLY LAUNCHED


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National Open University of Nigeria has finally launched her new portal, This was confirmed in a Telephone conversation at about 11:28am with the school media and publicity chairman Mr Ibrahim Sheme who disclosed it has been launched.

Impact-TrustINFO: Has the school finally launch the portal?

He said; Yes,as i speak to you am presently on the website,

Impact-TrustINFO;So student can now access their portal?

He affirmed: Yes, From today.

After conversation with the media and publicity chairman, Impact-TrustINFO got some feed backs from students who registered on the portal successfully but could not access some features like E-wallet, Course and Exam Registration and some student complained about getting feedback after registration that their (“name is not on the programme list”).

With this development, Impact-TrustINFO made a call through to the department in charge of the school portal National Open University Management of Information System”(NOUNMIS) as regards the challenges faced by the student on the new portal and it was disclosed the portal is still undergoing a test-run from next week student can check back to see development.

Impact-TrustINFO; Student are having some challenges with the portal like “Your name is not on the programme list please contact Admin officer” what do they about it?

The site is still undergoing a test run, some of the features like course and exam registration,remita, application are not available for now and student should check back next week.

Impact-TrustINFO would advise students to be very patient with the school management as the new portal is undergoing a test run. Get ready for the semester activities like getting course materials, enrolling for private classes and other related activities.

First you need to do a Portal Registration before log in.

Step 1: Visit the new link www.nouonline.com

Step 2: Click on Register

Step 3: Enter Details

Programme* i.e your department and degree e.g (Mass communication BSC)

Matric Number *
Surname *
Other Names *
Email *
Mobile Number*
Password *(Should not be less than 9 characters)
Verify Password *
Step 4: Click Submit
if it shows you Success! then you can log in. If not kindly check back next week.
NOTE: Most features aren’t working as its undergoing a test-run, just be patient and try back next week.

Entry Requirements

For candidates applying for the B.A. and BSc. programmes, a minimum of five credits which must include English language and Mathematics is required. Some specific programmes may also require compulsory credit grade in a third subject.

Candidates for admission into Post-Graduate Programmes must possess any one of the following; a second class lower degree, third-class degree from a related field or a pass degree from a related field with a minimum three years related experience. A minimum of second-class lower division may be accepted for candidates from a different field who may wish to apply. Applicants with the HND qualification should ensure that they possess the Upper Credit grade to qualify for admission into the Post - Graduate Diploma programme in the school.

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Stop Admitting Law Students, Lawyer Tells NOUN

A Port Harcourt-based lawyer and civil rights crusader, Barr. Chijioke Agi, has urged the  National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) to stop admitting students into its Faculty of Law until   the issue of admitting its law graduates into the Nigerian Law School is resolved.
He said until the issue is resolved, the  fate of its law graduates would hang  in the balance.
Barr. Agi, who made the remarks while speaking with The Tide in Port Harcourt last Monday explained that in the 1990s, the Council for Legal Education abolished part time programme in Law in  Nigerian universities in the bid to check half-baked lawyers and expressed regrets that the introduction of Law the in curriculum of NOUN, was a re-enactment of the old order.
He said the legal tussle between NOUN students and the Council of Legal Education in the Federal High Court was yet to be determined .
According to him, “until the legal battle between NOUN students and Council for Legal Education is determined, NOUN should not admit students to 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 gradicate yet, not a lawyer”, he stated
Barr. Agi remarked that though the NOUN’s 10 Faculties were accredited by the National Universities Commission (NUC), the other faculties are running without hitches except the law Faculty.
It would be recalled that the President Obasanjo’s administration established NOUN as a Federal Government’s Special Project in line with the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs).
But the recalcitrance of the council of Legal Education over the admission of NOUN law gradates to the Nigerian Law School has put paid to the university’s efforts at training law graduates.

Now, the questions begging for answers on account that justice is being denied these innocent students are: could it have been more ideal if these students had taken the law into their own hands with violence and, perhaps, a showdown that may warrant forceful closure of the Nigerian Law School campuses in the country? Is the court becoming a political party where political gimmicks are obtainable irrespective of the laid down rules? How long will the federal government watch a body under it subject its citizens to psychological trauma and deliberately frustrate with tactics and flimsy excuses innocent students who accepted its offers of admission and went through the same course-outlines as members of the agency?

Is it a normalcy for parties, after closing their arguments, to start the matter afresh after fixing judgment without appellate orders, perhaps, a party is not satisfied on the arguments presented by its counsel? Overall, can we continue with the slogan that ‘anything is possible in Nigeria’? Justice delayed is ultimately denied. Hence, if a court refuses to give a judgment on a matter it competently heard, it implies the country is rapidly drifting towards George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ where’ all animals are equal but some are more equal than others”.

Nonetheless, the federal government and the judiciary should not forget that the victims are students who put in their best time and resources in pursuit of a desirable career. Regardless of whatever reasons, it is a politically-motivated attack on the legal system not to deliver a judgment after listening to parties. Sadly, the court is the last hope of the common man. To substantiate the assumptions, the AGF who is the fourth defendant representing the federal government submitted a secret written brief and successfully urged the court to accept it as oral arguments in an open court. What an aberration!

Finally, on the judgment date, only the counsels representing the plaintiffs and NOUN were sighted at the court premises which was indicative that others were probably put on notice not to waste their time as the judgment would never come. This is, indeed a ridiculous and dangerous omen of egotism, tyranny and persecution.

Umegboro writes from Abuja.

THE sudden transfer of Hon. Justice B.O. Quadri of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt to Abuja Judicial Division after fixing a date for judgment on the Nigerian Law School admission tussle between the students of National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) and the Council of Legal Education (CLE), leaves much to be desired. The preliminary objection alone lingered in the court for over a year but finally was ruled in favour of the students prior to commencement of the substantive matters.

NOUN, a FGN-special project in compliance with the UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on education was established by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration. To motivate Nigerians, Obasanjo enrolled in the university’s programme, graduated and is presently doing a doctorate degree in Theology; all for authentication purposes.

The university’s ten faculties including Law are accredited by the National Universities Commission (NUC) and it has notable Nigerians, including members of the National Assembly, offering one programme or the other without hitches except Law, which faces challenges with the CLE, a body vested with the responsibility of training of law graduates in the law school.

The students in a representative action through their counsel, Professor Amuda Kannike Abiodun (SAN), dragged the Council of Legal Education (CLE), the National Universities Commission (NUC), the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and the NOUN to court in Suit No: FHC/PH/CS/111/2015 to explain why gates of the Nigerian Law School were shut against them, contrary to provisions clearly spelt out in the Students Handbooks which guaranteed admission for vocational training upon award of a Bachelor of Laws degree (LL.B) by the university, and also prayed the court, among others, to order the CLE to admit them into law school immediately. The CLE’s summative arguments pointed at the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) mode of NOUN as against the conventional method hitherto dominant in the country. Already, the matter has lingered in the court for about three years, leaving the graduates idle and in a dilemma with series of a adjournments, preliminary objections, absences of judge and public holidays aborting the court sittings. Nevertheless, the graduates doggedly maintained decorum, believing that since the university’s law programme which is the subject matter is duly accredited by the statutory body and approved by the federal government, justice will ultimately prevail.

Incidentally, on the day of arguments on December 07, 2016, Hon. Justice Quadri after listening to all the parties fixed January 27, 2017 for judgment with the students in high spirits, hoping futilely that the end had finally come, until the judge’s absence with no communication made it obvious. Usually, transfer of judges is not strange in the country but where such happens, two options are inevitable in sync with continuity in public service. The transferred judge is at liberty to personally deliver judgments on concluded matters or transfer case files to his successor to read the judgment.

As the judgment was not delivered as scheduled, it implies that the students who submitted to the legal system may perpetually be kept in the court with different technicalities. To start with, is the Nigerian Law School a fiefdom of some citizens? What offences did the students commit to deserve such resolute hate and discriminatory tendencies against them? From the arguments, it was obvious that all enabling laws are in favour of NOUN as the opposing party only anchored on the proficiency of the noble profession which in law is merely persuasive.

The dangerous implication is that having waited patiently since 2015 in the court and finally got to judgment but was tactically quashed for whatever reasons, the new judge may restart the case afresh which may linger again as evident in our judicial system.

‘Varsities need to improve on devt and use of ICT’

UNIVERSITIES in Nigeria have been advised to scale up the development and use of Information and Communication Technology, not just at the infrastructure and human capacity levels, but also in content delivery.

The director, Distance Learning Centre (DLC), University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Professor Bayo Okunade, made the call on Thursday at the opening of a two-day ‘Advocacy and Training Workshop on ODL Skills’ held at the Professor Isaac Folorunso Adewole (PIFA) Hall of the Centre, Ajibode Extension, Ibadan.

He said that dual-mode universities (which all providers of Open Distance Learning in Nigeria currently are) particularly need to increase the use of ICT in teaching and learning in their regular (or conventional) content delivery.

This, he noted, would in turn enhance the capacity of facilitators on the ODL mode.

“The transition from the purely well entrenched part-time programme to ODL was cumbersome because we continue to operate at the very conventional level.

“It has been very easy for many universities in Europe, Asia and the United States of America to be dual-mode because they have largely subscribed to technology on the regular mode and with special reference to OER (Open Educational Resources),” he noted.

He noted particularly that skills and competencies of ODL are not peculiar to the mode, but are skills required for driving education in the 21st century.

The two-day workshop, he explained, was meant for not only the drivers of ODL but all involved in the business of providing education, especially at the tertiary level.

Also in his address, while declaring the workshop open, the vice chancellor, Professor Abel Idowu Olayinka, noted that the problem in the Nigerian university system is not just inadequate access but the inability to appropriate ODL tools into the conventional university resources.

He thanked the President/CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Professor Asha Singh Kanwar, for her presence at the workshop and for allowing the university to share from her wealth of knowledge.

Both the pioneer vice chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria, Emeritus Professor Olugbemiro Jegede, and Professor Kanwar presented papers at the opening day of the event.

Jegede’s keynote paper was entitled ‘The Inevitability of ODL & Its Tools’.

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The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has designated the Uyo Study Centre as its hub of operation in the South South. Vice chancellor of the school, Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu, who spoke at the inauguration of the new centre said, “The reason the university is particularly interested in the Uyo Study Centre is that management of the university has decided that the Uyo Study Centre should be the hub of operation of the university in the South South region.”

Represented by registrar of the institution, Mr. Felix Edoka, the vice chancellor commended the accomplishments of the state governor, Deacon Udom Emmanuel, in the area of education, describing him as a champion of education.

The ultra-modern centre located at Udo Udoma Avenue in the Uyo metropolis, was donated recently to the school by the state government, in order to boost its activities, especially in the area of enrolment of students’ enrollment.

Director of NOUN’s Learner Support Services (LSS), Professor Stanley Ngoa, described Governor Emmanuel as a large-hearted leader who is passionate about the education of his people.
He pledged that NOUN would do its best in educating the people of the state, adding that the facility would be utilised judiciously and optimally. Ngoa explained that the choice of Uyo as the operational hub of the university in the region was informed by the fact that the state has a great potential for growth and is relatively more peaceful than any other state in the region.

Acting director of the centre, Dr. Angela Abaa, thanked the government for resolving the endemic accommodation challenge that plagued the study centre for years. She called on the people of the state to take advantage of the excellent facility provided by the state government and enroll in the university.

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Good morning everyone, after a brief meeting with model study centre director and Vice Counsellor, today I came to realise that the school is working really hard for our favour, the school has also promised to add marks to our previous exams, he also warned against students making payments through the new portal and made it clear that there won't b any refunds if any issues comes up after payments he stressed that we should remain calm as things gradually gets back on track...Pls note that the new portal will officially commence 2week of February, for the main time let's relax and watch...

Director, National Open University of Nigeria, Owerri Study Center, Dr Mrs Theresa Ettu, has just confirmed that
www.nouonline.com is authentic and the correct portal reportedly launched recently by National Open University of Nigeria.
Now, the most important development is that the portal is confirmed to be authentic and owned by the school.
What then should be understood is that the development of the portal is still not complete. At the moment, though Remita could be generated and payments made,
- the funds are not being reflected on the e-wallet, and therefore, courses and exams cannot be registered
- Application forms for admission cannot be completed
- Balance carried forward on the e-wallet are not reflected
- We cannot view our past semester exam results
- History of our e-wallet transactions are also not available
All these lapses are just temporary. The school is working round the clock to rectify all these.
Students are advised to start making payments, second week of February, 2017.
Patience therefore remains the keyword here.

Akwa Ibom governor, champion of education -- NOUN

The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has commended the accomplishments of Akwa Ibom state governor, Deacon Udom Emmanuel, in the area of education, describing him as a champion of education.

The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu, stated this at the weekend during a brief ceremony for the relocation of the NOUN study centre to its permanent site in Uyo, the state capital.

The ultra-moden site was donated recently to NOUN by the state government in order to boost the activities of the institution in the state, especially in the area of enrolment of the citizens and other residents into the university.

The erstwhile Special Study Centre, located at No. 3, Mbaba Afia Street, has formally moved to the new facility at Udo Udoma Avenue in the metropolis.

At the ceremony to declare the centre open for occupation by NOUN staff and students, the Registrar of the institution, Mr. Felix Edoka, who represented the vice-chancellor, said, “The purpose of our visit today is to ask the director of the Uyo Study Centre, Dr. Angela Abaa, to move into this facility recently donated to the university by the government of Akwa Ibom state. I wish to seize this opportunity to express the gratitude of the university to the governor, His Excellency Deacon Udom Emmanuel, for this wonderful gesture."

He revealed that the university has decided to make Uyo the operational hub of the university in the South-south region.

“The reason the university is particularly interested in the Uyo Study Centre is that management of the university has decided that the Uyo Study Centre should be the hub of operation of the university in the South-South region,” he said.

Also speaking on the occasion, the Director of NOUN's Learner Support Services (LSS), Professor Stanley Ngoa, described Governor Emmanuel as a large-hearted leader who is passionate about the education of his people.

He pledged that NOUN would educate the Akwa Ibom people just the way the governor wants it.

He added that the facility would be utilised judiciously and optimally.

Ngoa explained that the choice of Uyo as the operational hub of the university in the South-South was informed by the fact that the state has a great potential for growth and is relatively more peaceful than any other state in the region.

Earlier, the acting director, Uyo Study Centre, Dr. Angela Abaa, expressed delight and gratitude to God and the state government for resolving the endemic accommodation challenge that had plagued the study centre for years.

She called on the people of the state to take advantage of the excellent facility provided by the state government and enroll in the university.
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Students who have met all necessary requirements for graduation but did not see their names on the graduation list are admonished to submit to school, the hard copies of their results from 100Level to the semester before last semester--

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The Director General of National Teachers’ Institute (NTI), Professor Garba Dahuwa Azare, has said that distance learning programme for primary and secondary school teachers will guarantee quality teaching in Nigeria.

Speaking at the institute’s headquarters in Kaduna, he said that lack of continuous training for primary and secondary school teachers has become a common challenge at the state level, saying no state can afford to release 1,000 teachers for a two year training at a go.

According to him, the only way out of the challenge is to constantly retrain teachers through distance learning, which they can undergo while they continue their work.

Professor Azare further disclosed that his institute will soon begin to award degrees in affiliation with the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).
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NOUN Students Finally Get Accepted By NYSC for Youth Service 2017
Breaking news reaching our news desk today, is that the management board of the National Open University of Nigeria (noun) fight for her students to join the National Youth Service Corps (nysc) programmes is now a success, as latest information reaching our portal has it, that the NYSC official portal has listed Noun Lagos centre among it’s participating institution.
How To Check NYSC Senate Approved List 2017
1. The Nysc batch b passing programme can be checked, using the detailed guidelines provided below.
First step is to visit the Nysc registration portal through the website below to check the NYSC senate approved list.
2. http://portal.nysc.org.ng/nysc1/verifysenatelists
3. Click on the dropdown box and you will see it there yourself, the “National Open University of Nigeria Lagos, listed among the NYSC senate approved list.
4. Then type in your Matriculation Number:
5. Proceed and type in your Surname:
6. Lastly, enter your correct Date of birth:
7. Then click on “Search” to check your details.
This is good news, please and please share this information and let the world, Nigerians know that the National Open University of Nigeria, which is listed among the top 25 best academic institutions in Nigeria, has reached another milestone, because starting from today, all Noun graduates will be going for the NYSC programme.
This means that all NOUN students can now participate in the NYSC programme, and the school board is trying their best to make noun among the best in Nigeria.
One thing is certain, Noun students are among the best in the World.

List Of Accredited Courses and Programmes in National Open University of Nigeria

Here is the lists of all courses which has been approved and accredited in the National Open University of Nigeria by the National University Commission (NUC) for the 2017/2018 academic session.

Through this platform, we wish to get this information out to the general public, most especially all aspirants, candidates and students of the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN, that the National Universities Commission (NUC) in Nigeria, has just approved and released the results of 2017 Accreditation Courses.

We’ve published below, All the courses and programmes in NOUN.

We’re extremely happy to notify all interested persons, that the National Universities Commission body has also granted the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) Nursing science program Interim accreditation!

This means that you can now study nursing in NOUN and get the same results/treatment as other nurses who graduated from other Universities in Nigeria.

See the full Accredited courses in NOUN

PROGRAMMES
A. SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

i. Undergraduate Degree Programmes Programme Code
a) B.Sc. Criminology and Security Studies 2201

b) B.Sc. Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution 2202

c) B.Sc. Mass Communication 2204

d) B.A. English 2205

e) B.A French and International Relations 2206

f) B.A Christian Theology 2207

g) B.A Islamic Studies 2208

h) B.Sc. Political Science 2211

i) B.Sc. Economics 2212

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA PROGRAMMES
a) Criminology and Security Studies 2301

b) Journalism and Mass Communication 2302

c) Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution 2303

d) Christian Theology 2305

MASTERS DEGREE PROGRAMMES
a) Sc. Mass Communication 2401
a) Sc. Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution 2402

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA PROGRAMMES
a) Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) 4301

b) Postgraduate Diploma in Distance Education (PGDDE)

MASTERS OF EDUCATION (M.Ed.) PROGRAMMES
a) Educational Administration and Planning 4401

b) Educational Administration and Planning Science Education 4402

c) Educational Technology 4403

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (Ph.D) PROGRAMMES (By Research)
English (Language/ Literature) 2505

SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES
a) B. Agric. Agricultural Economics and Agro Business 4203

b) B. Agric. Agricultural Extension and Rural Development 4204

c) B. Agric. Animal Science 4205

d) B. Agric. Aquaculture and Fisheries Management 4206

e) B. Agric. Soil and Land Resources Management 7205

h) B. Agric. Crop Production and protection Sciences 7206

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA(PGD) Programme
PGD Agricultural Extension and Management 5301/7301

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Science Education
a) B.Sc. (Ed.) Agricultural Science 4201

b) B.Sc. (Ed.) Biology 4202

c) B.Sc. (Ed.) Chemistry 4203

d) B.Sc. (Ed.) Integrated Science 4204

e) B.Sc. (Ed.) Computer Science 4205

f) B.Sc. (Ed.) Mathematics 4206

g) B.Sc. (Ed.) Physics 4207

h) B.Sc. (Ed.) Business Education 4212

MASTER OF SCIENCE BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
a) Master of Science Business Administration 3416

ARTS & HUMANITIES EDUCATION
a) B.A (Ed.) Early Childhood Education 4208

b) B.A (Ed.) English 4209

c) B.A (Ed.) French 4210

d) B.A (Ed.) Primary Education 2411

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (Ph.D) PROGRAMME (By Course Work and Research)
a) Educational Administration 4501

b) Educational Planning 4502

c) Educational Technology 4503

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
B.Sc. Computer Science 5202
B.Sc. Communication Technology 5203
B.Sc. Data Management 5204
B.Sc. Environmental Science & Resource Management 5205
B.Sc. Mathematics 5208
B.Sc. Mathematics/Computer 5209
B.Sc. Chemistry 5212
B.Sc. Biology 5213
B.Sc. Physics 5214
B.Sc. Financial Mathematics 5215

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA PROGRAMMES
a) Digital Communications 5302

b) Mobile Communications Technology (Wireless) 5304

c) Information Technology 5305

MASTERS DEGREE PROGRAMME
a) Information Technology (with Internet Options) 5401

SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES
a) B.Sc. Community Health 5211/8201

b) B.Sc. Dental Technology 8202

c) B.Sc. Environmental Health 8203

d) Mathematics Education 4504

e) Science Education 4505

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA PROGRAMME
a) PGD HIV/AIDS Education and Management 5303/8301

NOUN SCHOOL OF LAW
i) Undergraduate programme Programme Code
a) LLB (Law) Degree programme 6201


NOUN POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA PROGRAMME
a) Legislative Drafting 6301

SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
b) B.Sc. Cooperatives Management 3201
c) B.Sc. Entrepreneurship 3204
d) B.Sc. Accounting (in Collaboration with ICAN) 3205
e) B.Sc. Hospitality Management 3206

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA PROGRAMMES
a) Financial Management 3309
b) Public Administration 3311
c) Business Administration 3313

NOUN MANAGEMENT SCIENCE MASTERS DEGREE PROGRAMMES
a) Master of Public Administration (MPA) 3411

b) Master of Business Administration (MBA) 3413

c) Master of Science Public Sector Management 3414

d) Master of Science Public Administration 3415

CENTRE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING (CLL)

Certificate Programmes

i. Proficiency Certificate Programmes
Programme Code
a) Call Centre Skills 0004
b) Mobile Phone Repair 0005

UNIVERSITY (Academic) CERTIFICATE PROGRAMMES
a) Computer Literacy 1004

b) Dental Office Practice 1017

c) Arabic and Islamic Studies 1022

d) Christian Theology 1023

e) French 1024

f) Hotel and Catering Management 1025

DIPLOMA PROGRAMMES
a) Business Communication 1201
b) Entrepreneurship 1205
c) Financial Management 1206
d) Marketing 1207
e) Medical Office Practice 1208
f) Arabic and Islamic Studies 1218

Thanks these are list of courses offered by the National Open University of Nigeria

However, we’ll still advice you to check the National Open University Of Nigeria Study Centres for courses available and each programmes requirement.

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A total of 12, 125 graduates received various certificates during the 6th convocation ceremony of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) yesterday out of which 31 made first class in various disciplines.

The vice chancellor of the university, Professor Abdalla Uba Adamu disclosed this during the convocation ceremony in Abuja.

He said out of the number, the Faculty of Science had 2,087 graduates, Education, 2,038 and Health Sciences, 1956.

In a message to the celebrants, President Muhammadu Buhari said any university council or management found wanting in financial mismanagement or gross moral and ethical violations would be made to face the full wrath of the law.

The president, who was represented by the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Adamu Abubakar Rasheed said he had directed the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu to demand quarterly reports from universities detailing their major financial and administrative activities.

Buhari warns varsities against unethical practices


President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday warned that any university management involved in unethical practices would face the full wrath of the law.

Buhari, who was the Visitor at the sixth convocation of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) in Abuja, said universities would henceforth prepare quarterly financial reports.

Represented by Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Buhari said his administration was anchored on ensuring security of lives and property, fighting corruption and improving the economy.


“As we move to address the existing needs of our universities, we demand that the leadership of these institutions reciprocate government’s gesture by untilising their funds with utmost integrity and probity.
“Any university council or management found wanting in relation to financial mismanagement or gross moral and ethical violations will be made to face the full wrath of law.

“I have directed the Minister of Education to demand quarterly reports from all universities, detailing their major financial and administrative activities.

“A template for such report will soon be circulated to the universities by the Federal Ministry of Education through the NUC,’’ he said.

Buhari asked NOUN to continue to lead and chart new directions in distance learning education through maximum use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

According to him, NOUN should through effective use of ICT, research, instructional materials and other training aids, produce globally competitive graduates.

He congratulated NOUN’s governing council, management, staff and students on the institution’s sixth convocation.

In his address, Prof. Abdalla Adamu, NOUN’s Vice-Chancellor, said that 12,125 graduating students, across all disciplines, would be conferred with honours.

He said that out of the number, 31 bagged first class degrees.

According to him, NOUN is keying into the global trend in digital learning.

“To improve our web rankings and raise the profile of our academic staff, NOUN has created a ‘NOUN Academics Online’ module where each of our academic staff is showcased to attract national and international collaborations in teaching and research.

“Noting the trend in technology usage among our students and predilection towards smart phone and tablet devices, NOUN has started negotiations with key technology partners to migrate our study materials into ePub electronic format.

“That will make our materials easier, friendlier and more interactively accessible on smartphone and tablet,’’ he said.

He regretted that the Council for Legal Education (CLE) had consistently denied NOUN’s law graduates admission into law school due to wrong perception.

Adamu, however, said that the Senate Committee on Tertiary Education and TETFund recently held a public hearing on NOUN Amendment Bill, which when passed into law, would address all outstanding issues.

The vice-chancellor said that NOUN had outpaced other Open and Distance Learning (ODL) institutions in Africa in the Open Education Resources initiative.

In his remarks, NOUN’s Chancellor, Lawrence Agubuzu, said that the yearly convocation was a testimony that NOUN was pursuing its mandate vigorously.

He urged the new graduates to exhibit worthy qualities wherever they find themselves in the service of their fatherland.

Nigeria Is Living In Denial Over It’s Challenges – Pat Utomi



Prof Pat Utomi has said that the country is experiencing a huge challenge of living in denial about its problems.

‎He said there is a certain conceit by Nigerians regarding the Nigerian condition and the place of ‎ Nigeria in the world and they think‎ that Nigeria is too big to fail.

Utomi, the two times Nigeria Presidential aspirant, who was the Guest Speaker at the 6th Pre-Convocation Lecture of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), in Abuja, disclosed this during his lecture titled, “Political economy of education: “Issues and challenges of opening and distance learning in Nigeria.”



According to him ” if we were not living in denial, one of the things we would have realised is that our country is in a rolling civil war.‎”

He said many people are dying as a result of violent death than any other country in war situation.

“We are struggling with Boko Haram, crisis in the north Central and in the South South, we are dealing with all kinds of issues llike militancy and so forth.

“More people die in Nigeria, a violent death than many of the countries in war.‎ What we have in Nigeria is an evrgreen civil war.

” How are we going to make progress when there’s so much violence everywhere?

“We have a zero-sub mindset. People are struggling over things that they shouldn’t be struggling over.”

Meanwhile, Utomi, who’s also the co-founder, Lagos Business School, has called on the federal government to prioritise education and health for its citizenry.

‎He said education would help to ameliorate the poverty of Nigerians.

In his speech, the Vice Chancellor, NOUN,Prof Abdallah Adamu, warned that the National Universities Commission (NUC) will shutdown any university that rejects degrees from students of the institution.

He said this while responding to a question raised by a student about non admission of NOUN nursing graduates by some unnamed university in Nigeria at the 6th pre-convocation lecture.

Adamu said NOUN degree had become acceptable globally.

He said the NUC for a long time had hindered the growth of tertiary education in Nigeria through its regulations.

According to him, it took the commission some time before it embraced private universities.

The commission, he added, had refused to adapt to the rapid change of education globally.

“This is a conversation into which the NUC has to be drawn. As guardians of the idea of a university in Nigeria the NUC has been traditionally slow to change. For the NUC a university was 100 hectares of condominium with many faculties and traditional teaching methods.

“To be sure, it is changing but the pace has been slow. It took it long to accept the idea of private universities and even such methods of pedagogy as the case study method. But we must not blame the leadership of the NUC alone,” he said.

Earlier in his response, the chairman of the lecture and registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, called on all institutions of the federal government to respect the law.

“The Council of Legal Education is a creation of the law. The National Youth Service Corps is a creation of the law and therefore NOUN is created by the law. If we decide to be lawless there will be anarchy.

“If anybody disagrees with a law the best place to go is the National Assembly not to take the law into his own hands. I therefore call on agencies of government to be law makers rather than law breakers,” he said.

The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has called on all agencies of the Federal Government, especially the Council for Legal Education (CLE), and the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), to respect the provisions of the law and stop the discrimination against graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).

Oloyede said this yesterday at the 6th Pre-Convocation Lecture of the Open University held in Abuja. It would be recalled that for some years now, the Council for Legal Education has denied law graduates of NOUN, admission into law school, arguing that the Open University was a part time programme. Opposing arguments by the vice chancellor of NOUN, Professor Abdalla Uba Adamu, that the Open University was a full time programme, as well as the intervention by the National Universities Commission (NUC), under immediate past executive secretary, Professor Julius Okojie, failed to get the CLE to yield.

Likewise, the NYSC has allegedly refused to mobilise graduates of the Open University for the one year national service on same argument.

Professor Oloyede said yesterday, that the agencies are taking the law into their hands. He enjoined them to take the matter to the National Assembly, rather than deny the graduates their rights either into law school or into the NYSC programme.

According to him, those who are castigating the Open University are ignorant, and the NUC should call them to order.

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Two Nigerian prisoners will on Saturday, January 21, be awarded bachelor degrees from the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN)

- The prisoners have spent the last four years of their prison term studying for a degree under NOUN

- According to the Vice Chancellor of NOUN, Prisoners who want to study under NOUN would not be charged tuition fee

For the first time ever, two Nigerian prisoners have bagged bachelor degree awards from National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). The prisoners will be awarded their degrees alongside 5,975 other students at NOUN 6th convocation ceremony to be held on Saturday, January 21.

The VC of NOUN, Prof Abdallah Adamu, said that prisoners who want to study at the university would not be charged any tuition fee.

According to a report by PUNCH, Adamu, who spoke at a briefing ahead of the institution’s convocation ceremony scheduled for Saturday, January 21, added that the institution would graduate 12 first class students and two prisoners.


He said: “If a prisoner wants to study in NOUN, it is free of charge. We feel that while they are there, they should not be denied education. But, once he or she is out of prison they will pay.”

Adamu also said the law establishing the university would be amended by the National Assembly to expunge the phrase that says the university will provide knowledge through ‘correspondence’ and replace it with ‘Open Distance Learning.’

He said: “I can conveniently tell everybody that is worried about our students not being admitted into the Nigerian Law School. The Senate is holding public hearing on it.”

Meanwhile, Osun state governor, Rauf Aregbesola who gave a speech during the 6th convocation ceremony of Fountain University, Osogbo, has advised university graduates to dump their certificates and go back to farm,urging them to see agriculture as viable alternative to white collar job.

The governor said the call was necessary due to the menace of unemployment among Nigerian youths.

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6TH CONVOCATION CEREMONY
Sequel to the 6th Convocation Ceremony scheduled for 20th and 21st January 2017, the graduands concerned are required to sign and receive their Academic Gowns/Hoods from 12th to 20th January, 2017.

Please note that graduands of undergraduate programmes are to receive their gowns from their respective Study Centers while hoods would be issued at NOUN Model Study Centre Dutse Alhaji, Junction on Kubwa Express Way, Abuja.

 However, graduands of Postgraduate programmes are required to collect academic gowns and hoods from the NOUN Model Study Centre Dutse Alhaji, Junction, Kubwa Express Way.

All graduands are expected to present the under listed documents at the point of collection of both items.

Evidence of payment of a fee of N15,000.00 for the use of Academic gown payable through: remita.net  (remita print-out inclusive)
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The programme of activities are as follows:

Pre-Convocation Lecture

Date:              Friday, 20th January, 2017                                                                                                         

Venue:  Aja Nwachukwu Auditorium

National Universities Commission,

Aguyi Ironsi Way, Maitama, FCT-Abuja.

Time:              10.00am

 

Award of Certificates

Date:              Saturday, 21st January, 2017                                                                                                   

Venue:     Convocation Arena,

NOUN university village, Plot 91 Cadastral zone,

Nnamdi Azikwe Expressway, Jabi, Abuja.

Time:              10.00am

 

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The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, has called for the inclusion of Information Communication Technology (ICT) among courses offered by the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).
Saraki said that if included, it would advance learning in the institution across the Nigeria.
He made the call on Monday at the opening of a public hearing on “The National Open University Act amendment Bill 2016’’ organised by the Senate Committee on Tertiary Education and TetFund, in Abuja.
The President of the Senate, who was represented by the Chief Whip, Sen. Olushola Adeyeye, said that the amendment of the Act would strengthen the capacity of the university to deliver on its goal.
He said that the pivotal role of higher education as an underlined principle of moral education could not be over-emphasised, adding that the major thrust of the amendment bill was to improve on the existing legislation.
According to Saraki, studies have shown that increase in students’ exposure to ICT through curriculum integration has significant and positive impact on their achievements, especially in knowledge and comprehension of skills.
“It is on this basis that the establishment of the National Open University in July, 1983 as a springboard for open and distance learning in Nigeria was conceived.’’
He said that the university as it was currently ran depended on virtual learning and students individual research hence the need for improvement and introduction of helpful learning tools as presented by ICT.
Senator Saraki
He stated that so far, the success of the university was the most encouraging, adding that Nigerians must not lose sight of the fact that the global organisation of education was constantly evolving.
Saraki explained that NOUN provided access and flexibility to those, who ordinarily would not have had the opportunity to get formal education.
He therefore called for support from the legislators for the amendment of the bill.
He also called for updating of laws and policies to give valuable support to Nigeria’s quest for improved quality learning.
Earlier, Chairman of the Committee on Tertiary Education and TetFund, Sen. Jibrin Barau, said that the deployment of and penetration of ICT had eased the way of doing business and had modified the traditional means of communication.
Barau explained that the introduction of a platform to provide online tuition as a method of instruction would bring efficiency and convenience in the Open University system.
“As a foremost university that has brought education to the doorsteps of many individuals and has made learning easier for all, this amendment is apt, timely and in tune with the global best practices,” he said.
He said that amendment of the bill would also help to reposition the institution for better services, and help in producing quality graduates for Nigeria.
In his submission, Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Abdallah Adamu, said that the university was established to be technologically-driven.
He said that though ICT had been incorporated in the new amendment, the biggest area of concern to the institution was the inclusion of “Correspondent’’ on the bill in reference to students of the school.
“This gives the impression that we are not a full-time university, making us to be seen as part time.
“They give us the impression of temporariness rather than permanence,” Adamu said.
He disclosed that the institution had 78 study centres with a total of 254, 000 students’ enrolment across the country.
“This is the only university that provides thousands of people opportunity to acquire university education without having to leave their work.”
Adamu said that the new amendment should also include Open and Distance Learning (ODL) to clear the impression that the institution was not carrying out full-time programmes.
Similarly, Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Adamu Rasheed, said that the challenges of access to conventional Nigerian universities were not new to Nigerians.
Rasheed, who was represented by Dr Olamide Adesuwa, Director, Open and Distant Education of NUC, said that the low percentage of admissions into universities in the country necessitated the establishment of the NOUN.
According to him, global best practices in distance education have shown that it had moved from correspondence to leveraging on ICT.
He explained that distant education was “mediated learning’’, and that it was powered by ICT.
“Open and Distant Learning is not part-time; it is flexible mode of learning.
“It has to be seen as such in order not to misconstrue the efforts of the students who rather than waste time after work, now invest all of the time in learning.”
The executive secretary said that the commission was in support of amendment of the proposed amendment.