NOUN
National Open University of
NOUN
National Open University of Nigeria
NOUN Gets More Professors for Open
University
The Governing Council of the National Open University of Nigeria
has expressed optimism that the recent assent of President
Muhammadu Buhari to the NOUN Amendment Bill 2018 would give greater
legitimacy to the university as a full-time open and distance
learning (ODL) institution.
The chairman of the council, Professor Peter Okebukola, while
addressing the media in Lagos on Monday, said the NOUN Act, for
which the university eagerly awaits its gazetting, would provide
for graduates of the university to be eligible for enrolment in the
NYSC Scheme.
Okebukola enthused that these provisions and others would set
NOUN on a trajectory for improved delivery of quality university
education, parity of esteem of products with the conventional
universities and a catalyst for the university’s match to be the
best open university in Africa by 2030.
He further explained that the university was strategising to
double its student enrolment from the current 500,000 to 1,000,000
within the next five years, adding that the council is supporting
the Senate of NOUN, under the leadership of Professor Abdalla Uba
Adamu, the Vice-Chancellor, to improve the quality of the delivery
process.
Okebukola also hinted that NOUN was in the closing stage of
hosting the African Centre of Excellence on Technology Enhanced
Learning, to be funded by the World Bank through the National
Universities Commission (NUC) with between US$4-6 million in a
five-year cycle.
The council also noted with pleasure the impressive performance
of the vice-chancellor in taking NOUN to greater heights since his
assumption of office, citing the efforts of his management team for
securing the Centre of Excellence, worthy of praise.
Meanwhile, the Governing Council has announced the promotion of
some staff to professorial cadre.
Those promoted are Prof. Onyeka Iwuchukwu – Comparative
Literature, Prof. Samaila Mande – Marketing and Communication;
Prof. Saheed Ajibola – Mathematics; Dr Aliede Jonathan – Associate
Professor of Mass Communication; Dr Rosemary Obodo – Associate
Professor of Guidance and Counseling; and Dr Kareem Aminu –
Associate Professor of Educational Psychology.
Others are Dr. Alero Akujobi – Associate Professor of Law, and
Dr Samson Osoba – Associate Professor of Transport Management.
Signed:
Ibrahim Sheme
Director, Media and Publicity
NOUN