LIFE JAIL INMATE TO OBTAIN PHD SOON AT NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
Hear him, “presently, we have more than 400 prisoners who are studying under NOUN. There is also a particular prisoner who was sentenced to life imprisonment, but he is undergoing his PhD studies. Very soon we will engage him as our facilitator.”
Penpushing further reports that, the Vice Chancellor also disclosed that, the university will on Saturday at its eighth annual convocation ceremony turn out 20,799 graduates, with 103 of them to be awarded First Class Certificates.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University, pointed out that, as a weapon of mass instruction, people are now accepting Open Distance Learning (ODL) as a way and system of self-training, recalling that the follow President Muhammadu Buhari’s assent December 7, 2018 to the National Open University Amendment Act, which approved that graduates of the university will henceforth participate in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
Penpushing further reports that, Adamu explained that the Act allows the National Open University to operate as other universities in Nigeria, adding that, the same power and functions and the same administrative structures as other universities, has eliminated discrimination against its products
“Negotiations have started between NOUN and agencies responsible for NYSC and Law School. We are also willing to accept whatever conditions are given to accept our students in Law School and NYSC”, stating that law graduates of the institution can also go to the Nigerian Law School
Penpushing also reports that, the Vice-Chancellor emphasized that the Open University now gives hope to the hopeless in Nigeria in the pursuit of university education, adding, “It is only NOUN that gives opportunity to prisoners to study, while at the same time serving their jail terms’.
The Vice Chancellor also disclosed that, former Nigerian president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo,a Phd graduate of the institution receives N40,000 annually as an allowance for being a facilitator of the university.
His words, “Mr Obasanjo’s allowance is N40, 000 a year and he is happy being our facilitator. He has an office in our Abeokuta Study Centre, where we attached to him two students of Christian Theology.”
