The new appointees are: Mr. Oladipo Adetayo Ajayi as Registrar, Mr. Nasir Gusau Marafa as Bursar and Dr. Angela Ebele Okpala as University Librarian.
NOUN Appoints New Registrar, Bursar and Librarian
NOUN headquarters most beautiful campus in Nigeria – Arc Alfa
The Director, Directorate of Physical Development Works and Services (DPDWS), National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Architect Abubakar Y. Alfa, has said that the relocation of the institution to Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja has helped in confronting some infrastructural challenges bedeviling the university.
Abubakar said this in an interview with the NOUN News recently, where he also narrated the achievements and breakthroughs the university has recorded ever since its relocation.
Alfa said, “It was only three blocks of building that were in Abuja headquarters as at the time of relocation; now we have about ten buildings and many buildings going on in study centers across the country.”
He listed the buildings that are ongoing at the headquarters and study centers are as Faculty Building, Virtual Facilitation Centre, Postgraduate School, bridge, new ultra-modern study centre at Dawakin Kudu in Kano state, Directorate of Learning Contents and Management System (LCMS), among others.
According to the Director;
“This campus is one of the most beautiful campus in the country. We have good road and good networks, most importantly, faculty building (Abdalla Uba Adamu building), Vincent Ado Tenebe building and Afolabi Ojo building, among others.”
Emphasizing on the level of development, Alfa explained that the university will be well developed in five years, as students will easily access the internet facilities.
“They don’t need to come to the headquarters before solving their problems.”
He implored all staff to handle the university properties with caution, adding that fund is the major challenge confronting the directorate.
Check out: NOUN GST302 SENSITIZATION UPDATE FOR 2021_2 SEMESTER
National Open University Of Nigeria – Press Release
NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA
Press Release Updated———
President M.Buhari: Why I signed NOUN amended law;
As over 32,000 graduates are in combined virtual convocation, President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that his prompt signature on the amended law of the National Open University of Nigeria’s (NOUN) has resolved the long-term non-recognition of its graduates in the country.
He stated this on Saturday during the university’s combined 9th and 10th Convocation Ceremony, which was held virtually.
The president, represented via a virtual connection by the National Universities Commission (NUC) Deputy Executive Secretary, Ramon Yusuf, stated: “NOUN is delivering on its mandate by taking education to the doorstep of Nigerians.”
Buhari, who is the university visitor, added that his administration has placed a great premium to education, especially in ensuring a lifelong learning via the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) mode. While saluting the efforts of the university’s management in continuing to expand access to higher education, the president acknowledged that NOUN has remained the only single-mode ODL institution in Nigeria.
On his part, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Abdalla Uba Adamu, said the combined ceremony has seen the graduation of a total of 32,725 students from various courses of study in undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Adamu, who is rounding off his five-year tenure on February 10, 2021, disclosed that a total of 24,300 graduands were drawn from the year 2020, the convocation ceremony of which was shelved due to the enforced lockdown necessitated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
He said the year 2021 has a total of 8,425 graduands, making it a cumulative 80,418 students who graduated within his five-year stint at the university.
The Vice-Chancellor added, “It became necessary to hold a combined convocation due to inability to hold the 9th convocation in March 2020 due to Covid-19 pandemic. “The virtual convocation is not the first in the country due to Covid-19 restriction, but it is the most significant in leading way to the largest single event mass graduation of students in the history of higher education in the country.”
Adamu, who took time off to explain his achievements, said the recorded strides were a culmination of “dedication and singular focus in moving the university from a static provider of ODL to dynamic process of transformation of higher education delivery models in Africa.”
The Chancellor of the university, His Royal Highness, Amb. (Dr.) Lawrence O.C. Agubuzu, thanked the federal government for its support to the university.
On his part, the chairman, Governing Council, Professor Peter Okebukola, said the combined convocation conducted virtually was unique in many ways, as it will set standard for other universities in Nigeria.
He said, “This is the last convocation under the leadership of Professor Abdalla Uba Adamu, whose five years go down as the best in the annals of the university.”
Goodwill messages were received from other universities as thousands of students, families and friends hooked on via the various streaming platforms.
—
Signed:
IBRAHIM SHEMEDirector, Media and Publicity, NOUN
