By 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.