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By Madu Obi
Graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN, will soon start participating in the mandatory one- year National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, programme for Nigerian graduates.
The Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof Olufemi Peters disclosed this at a press conference ahead of the convocation of the institution scheduled for Saturday.
Peters explained that the university is currently engaging the management of NYSC to that effect, adding that NOUN graduates deemed to have qualified to serve, would soon be mobilized.
He also said that the institution would soon commence the Law degree programme which was suspended some years ago based on advice of the Council of Legal Education.
According to him, talks with the Council to that effect had reached advanced stage.
Prof. Peters said the building of the Faculty of Law will begin this year which he added, is part of the outcome from engagement with the Council on Legal Education.
The Vice Chancellor disclosed that for Saturday's 13th convocation ceremony, a total of 22,175 students would graduate.
He said that 22 of the 15,768 first degree graduating students had First Class, 1,886 had Second Class (Upper Division), 8,427 students are graduating with Second Class (Lower Division) while 3,782 others had Third Class.
Peters added that 6,407 were graduates from post-graduate studies comprising 2,362 postgraduate diplomas and 4,039 with Masters degrees, while there are 6 PhD graduates.
He announced that NOUN will confer honorary doctorate degrees on the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer(CEO)of Innoson Motors , Chief Innocent Chukwuma and Hajia Hafsatu Abdulwaheed, the first female novelist in northern Nigeria.
He also said that NOUN had increased its study centers from the initial 17 to 120 centers spread across the country and expressed happiness that the institution had surmounted most of the challenges it faced in the past.
The convocation lecture, which will take place on Friday, is to be delivered by the Vice Chancellor of Open University of Tanzania, Professor Elifas Bisanda.
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