Holding governments accountable for implementing anti-discrimination legislation, legal mandates for inclusion and policies to remove barriers have been identified as the means to advance inclusive education, the Vice-Chancellor, National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Prof. Olufemi Peters, has said.

Top personnel of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) currently on examination monitoring tour of study centres in the South-south geopolitical zone of the country have expressed satisfaction on the administration and conduct of the ongoing 2021_2 Pen-On-Paper (POP) examination as they observe it in the region.

The Vice-Chancellor, National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Prof. Olufemi Peters, has said the university is excited to have a facility as Africa Centre of Excellence on Technology Enhanced Learning (ACETEL) considering the remarkable achievements of the centre.

The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Prof. Uduma Oji Uduma, has described as satisfactorily the administration and conduct of the on-going 2021_2 Pen-On-Paper (POP) examination.

He disclosed this when he monitored the exercise, on Friday, 19 November 2021, at Enugu Study Centre.

While acknowledging the highly competent staff at the centre, he also commended them for their commitment, cooperation and their synergy, stressing that the staff know what to do at any given time.

Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Administration, Prof. Isaac Butswat, has disclosed that the university management will soon address issues of faulty elevators, non-functional generators and other infrastructural facilities, especially at the Lagos office and other study centres nationwide.

The Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic, National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Prof. Uduma Oji Uduma, has, on Tuesday, 16th November 2021, visited Abakaliki Study Centre, Ebonyi State, to monitor the on-going 2021_2 Pen-On-Paper (POP) examination.

He was taken round by the centre director, Dr. Udu Ama Aka and other senior staff for inspection of the facilities and the examination venue for proper supervision and assessment of the exercise.

The Faculty of Health Sciences of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has held a befitting send-off party for one of its pioneering professors, Prof. Mba Ogbureke Okoronkwo (OON), who retired from active service.

Two external examination monitoring officers, Prof. Gregory Okagbare and Dr. Kahar Wahab Sarumi, have separately visited the Jalingo, Wukari, Bauchi, Azare and Bogoro Study Centres, where they commended the process and the orderly conduct of the ongoing 2021_2 POP examination.

While at Jalingo Study Centre, Okagbare was given a tour of the centre by the director, Dr. Bala Waziri Kwata, which afforded the visitor the opportunity to inspect facilities at the study centre.