NOUN VC urges 17,804 matriculating students to be studious, courageous
By Emmanuel Afonne
Abuja, May 15, 2021 The Vice Chancellor, National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Prof. Olufemi Peters, has urged new students of the university to be studious, have thirst for knowledge and the limits of ideas during their academic journey with the institution.
Peters made the call during the 20th Matriculation Ceremony for the students which took place virtually on Saturday across the 103 study centres in the country.
A statement issued by Mr Ibrahim Sheme, Director, Media and Publicity, NOUN, quoted Peters as also urging the students to be expository and courageous.
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Sun May 16 2021
At the nation’s helm of affairs where he could easily be identified with his trademark Idoma red and black handwoven cap, the name, David Mark, rang a bell for two decades. But this towering political figure appears to be ‘missing in action’ since he ended histenure as Senate President in 2015, Daily Trust on Sunday reports.
Before his sojourn at the National Assembly where he held sway as senate president for two consecutive terms of eight years after being a ranking senator for another cumulative eight years and his remaining four exiting years, bringing the number of years he spent at the red chambers to 20, nothing much had been heard from Mark while on exile abroad.
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th Annual “Atoms Empowering Africa” Online Video Competition at the special online awards ceremony.
During the competition the participants were encouraged to post their videos on Facebook to explore nuclear technologies and how these technologies could be utilized to benefit their region. It could be a video about how nuclear technologies can assist in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Africa, how nuclear technologies can help developing countries industrialize, how non-power related nuclear science and technology can benefit the country or community or another related subject.
This year the winners of the competition (https://bit.ly/3ehcOj2) are: team of George Davis Bilali, student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and technology in Ghana from Tanzania, together with his counterparts Alyaa Mahmoud Ibrahim Awad from Egypt and Fati Aruna Akoriko from Ghana; Mostafa Omran, Master stud
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