NOUN GRADUATES Obansanjo with a Masters degree.

The Vice-Chancellor of the University,
Prof. Vincent Tenebe, said in his address
at the ceremony that Obasanjo was
among other notable Nigerians in the list
of the 10,653 graduands in which 15 of
them made first class honours.
Tenebe listed other outstanding
graduands as the Emir of Hadejia,
Jigawa State, Alhaji Adamu Abubakar
and the traditional ruler of Awgu, Enugu
State, Igwe Felix Okechukwu.
Others were over 70 years Rear Admiral
Orisha, (Rtd), who bagged fist class in
Mathematics and a 78-year-old, Chief
Femi Balogun, who bagged LL.B from the
School of Law.
The vice-chancellor also listed a blind
student, Mr Obinna Bede, who bagged a
Bachelor of Arts (English), degree and
Udo Effiong, who had the highest
cumulative point in first class grade of
4.71.
“It is interesting to note that Obasanjo
will be graduating with a Master’s
Degree (MA-Christian Theology) having
met the requirements for the award
during this convocation.
“Having been given the admission to
study MA/PhD in Christian Theology,
Obasanjo will continue with his Ph.D
fully.
“This is very unique considering his age
and commitments; he also made a very
good cumulative grade point,’’ the VC
said.
Tenebe said that NOUN had achieved its
primary mandate of having study centres
in all the state capitals across the
country.
According to him, the institution will
commence the last aspect of its mandate,
which is to establish study centres in all
the 774 local governments in the next 15
years.
He said that the total number of study
centre across the country stood at 72
alongside four new research centres.
“We will not relent in our appeal to the
Council for Legal Education to give
NOUN Law graduates the opportunity to
attend the Law School and be called to
the Bar.
“If other countries such as UK, India,
South Africa, Tanzania, among others
allow their Open Universities’ Law
graduates to attend Law School and are
called to the Bar, Nigeria has no
justifiable reasons to hold her Open
University graduates down.
“We must move forward in all these
areas as a progressive country,’’ he said.
In his address, NOUN’s Chancellor, Igwe
Lawrence Agubuzu, said that there were
59 open universities in the World,
adding that their graduates were treated
differently from graduates of
conventional universities.
Agubuzu called on the National Youth
Service Corps and the Nigerian Law
School to allow NOUN graduates to
participate in their progammes.
NAN reports that Chief Obasanjo
received the award by proxy as he was
said to unavoidably absent.
NOUN’s 2016 convocation was held for
the first time at University Village, Jabi,
which was allocated to the institution in
1983.

Sourced from Guardian

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