It said the crisis had hindered the law graduates of the university from admission into the Nigerian Law School for over five years.
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This was disclosed in a statement by the institution’s Director, Media and Publicity, Ibrahim Sheme.
The ceremony will be holding simultaneously at the 78 study centres of the university across the country.
They said NANS had patiently watched how after five years of graduation, the NOUN law graduates had been denied admission into the Nigerian Law School as provided in the NOUN students handbook, which is a legally binding contract.
Ibrahim Sheme, NOUN’s Director, Media and Publicity, in statement on Wednesday in Abuja said the questionnaire did not emanate from the institution and urged the public to disregard it.
Buhari, who was the visitor at 7th Convocation of NOUN on Saturday in Abuja, described Obasanjo as the “Father of Open and Distance Education in Nigeria’’.
The Vice-chancellor spoke at the 4th Quarter 2016 NUC Parastatal Servicom Committee meeting, which held at the university’s headquarters in Abuja
Sheme explained that following reports from some concerned Nigerians, NOUN had to constitute a committee to monitor the activities of its study centres nationwide, in the interest of the general public
According to him, the largest area of support that UNESCO gives to NOUN is the Open Education Resource.
He said: “The OER is an online repository of a huge number of resources in education and the beauty of it is that they are free and anybody can access them
Adamu also premised the decision on the advice by the National Universities Commission that students should be stopped from undertaking the course pending the resolution of the impasse generated by the refusal of the Law School to allow NOUN graduates to attend its programme
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Ajobor was honoured at a ceremony at the Kirikiri Maximum Prisons by the NOUN authorities alongside another inmate, Moshood Folarinmilekan, who was presented with a certificate of exemption from the National Youth Service Corps
“If supported by the Federal Government through adequate funding, this policy would make the university a very strong instrument of actualizing the educational programmes of this country.”
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
“We shall be conferring degrees on some inmates who have successfully completed their courses and have satisfied all requirements
The theme of the lecture, to be delivered by Prof. Nuhu Yaqub, the Vice-Chancellor of Sokoto State University, is: “Open and Distance Education and Socioeconomic Development.”
According to him, while OERs are educational materials made available freely for reuse, revision, remixing and redistribution, MOOCs are short courses aimed at unlimited participation and open access through the web
A statement issued by the Centre’s Regional President, Dr. Abayomi Ogundele, said the centre condemned such calls and added that the students were ignorant of the towering image of the University both at home and abroad in providing quantitative and qualitative education to all seekers of education with ease and flexibility.
“It became very clear to all that, the management knows that the existence of Student Association will paralyze myriad of irregularities from which the management presently benefits, hence, the efforts to deny students, their rights. While they had consistently failed to get our law graduates to be mobilized for law school since 2013, failed to get our graduates mobilized for NYSC despite receiving fees in this regard, they are vehemently making efforts to cripple justice in their favor
A statement signed by the Congress of NOUN Students accused the management of not responding to their claim that the institution has become a “den of endemic corruption”. Maybe one will also offer no response upon the realisation that the entity being described has no relationship with where one presides over
Adenyi, an awaiting trial inmate and pioneer student of NOUN at its Enugu Prison study centre, was on Tuesday presented the certificate by the Controller-General of the Nigerian Prisons Service, Dr Peter Ekpendu, at the first convocation of the centre