About 17, 804 fresh students are set to matriculate at the 20th Ceremony of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) slated to hold on Saturday, 15th May, 2021.

The Matriculation Ceremony will be holding simultaneously at the 103 study centres of the university across the federation virtually.

The Open and Distance Learning (ODL) mode of education deliver has come with the answer to the access challenge in the tertiary education in Nigeria, an education expert, Prof. Oyesoji Aremu, has said.

Two former Vice-Chancellors of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Prof. Vincent Ado Tenebe and Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu have on Tuesday appeared before the Presidential Visitation panel for presentation and assessment of their various roles while steering the university’s leadership in the past.

This is in line with the 7-man panel’s terms of reference that include examining the quality of the leadership of the university in terms of the roles of the Governing Board, the Vice-Chancellor and other Principle Officers, among others.

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olufemi Peters, has assured the National Universities Commission (NUC) accreditation teams that NOUN will make amends, improve on its services and implement their observations in line with global academic standard.

This was sequel to the various teams’ preliminary reports tendered to the university at the end of their assignments.

Chairman of the Presidential Visitation Panel to the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Alhaji Isa Bello Sali, has said that part of his committee's assignment was to inquire into the level of implementation of the White Paper on the last visitation report as well as examine the quality of the leadership in the university.

Sali, a former Head of Civil Service of the Federation, stated this during the panel’s first interactive meeting with stakeholders of the university, held at the headquarters of the university on Tuesday in Abuja.

The Vice-Chancellor of National Open University (NOUN), Prof. Olufemi Peters, has visited Enugu Study Centre, Enugu State, where he assured that the management was working hard to improve the infrastructures of study centres.

The Vice-Chancellor, National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Prof. Olufemi Peters has has been elected as the first vice president of the African Council for Distance Education (ACDE).

ACDE, a continental educational organisation, has its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.

A former ACDE executive secretary and now the NOUN centre director, McCarthy Study Centre, Lagos, Prof. Rotimi Ogidan, stated in a post that the NOUN VC was unanimously elected into the position.

The Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai (IBBUL) has expressed its desire to delve into partnership with the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), in the areas of e-learning and capacity building.