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Professor Tony Ogiamien is the president/founder of an online university, the American Heritage University of Southern California, Ontario, the United States of America. Against the backdrop of the dreaded COVID-19 global pandemic and the surge in online education, Ogiamien, a former dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Benin (UNIBEN) spoke to Hendrix Oliomogbe on the challenges of e-learning in Nigeria, with recommendations for Nigerian universities on what should be done to address the issue.
How would you assess the state of online education in Nigeria?
It’s regrettable that we are discussing this issue when stakeholders in the sector should have had the foresight when the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) was established as a correspondence institution. When the online learning started in the United States, we should have sent people to study it but we didn’t. The National Universities Commission (NUC) put it on its website when it had next to nothi
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NOUN cancels examination by semester
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By Joseph Erunke
THE National Open University of Nigeria,NOUN, has cancelled the recently approved restructuring of examinations by semester.
Announcing the cancellation order, Registrar of NOUN, Mr. Felix Edoka, informed all staff and students of the university in a memo that the decision was arrived at during the 87th meeting of the University Management Committee held in Abuja on Wednesday, 17th February 2021.
The meeting, which was chaired by the new Vice-Chancellor, Professor Femi Peters, discussed a number of issues, including the conduct of university examinations.
According to Mr. Edoka, the new policy on the conduct of the university examinations which restricted its process to semester by semester has been cancelled with immediate effect.
Announcing the cancellation order, Registrar of NOUN, Mr. Felix Edoka, informed all staff and students of the university in a memo that the decision was arrived at during the 87th meeting of the University Management Committee held in Abuja on Wednesday, 17th February 2021.
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Thu Feb 11 2021
When Professor Abdalla Uba Adamu reported for work as Vice-Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) in February, 2016, he came cracking several jokes. One of them was that he intended to take the university “from noun to verb”.
Five years down the lane, that pun has assumed a palpable reality. The university, founded by the Shagari administration in 1983, suspended a year later by the military regime of General Buhari and re-invented by the Obasanjo administration in 2002, was impacted in many ways by Adamu.
Appointed from his base at Bayero University, Kano, he retired as NOUN VC on February 10, 2021 after completing his statutory five-year single term.