Prof. Olufemi Peters is the new Vice-Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). In this interview, he spoke on his plans to move the university forward by building on his predecessor’s legacies.
As you take over as new VC, what are your plans for the institution?
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The Centre Director, Africa Centre of Excellence on Technology Enhanced Learning (ACETEL), Prof. Grace E. Jokthan has said the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) was privileged to have a renowned scientist and an inventor as its new Vice-Chancellor.
Jokthan stated this on Tuesday while briefing newsmen on the activities geared towards ACETEL’s first orientation ceremony, billed to hold virtually next week.
As part of its effort to enhance free-flow of traffic along Idu-Airport road axis of Abuja, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has requested for a space at the premises of NOUN headquarters where it will establish a mini office facility for its officers.
The International Chartered Worlds Learned Society has inducted Prof. Nebath Tanglang into the body and awarded him with its highest award of fellowship over his contribution to sports management in the country.
The Coordinator of the Kaduna Conference Marking Centre, Professor Juliet Inegbedion, on Thursday said the centre has successfully concluded its exercise.
The centre, comprising of twenty (20) study centres, had received fifty-four thousand (54,000) scripts from all the centres under it, she said in an interview with the NOUN News correspondent.
The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has cancelled the recently approved restructuring of examinations by semester.
Announcing the cancellation order, the Registrar of the university, Mr. Felix I. Edoka, informed all staff and students of the university in a memo that the decision was arrived at during the 87th meeting of the University Management Committee held in Abuja on Wednesday, 17th February, 2021.
1. https://www.nannews.ng/peters-assumes-office-as-new-noun-vc/
2. https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/02/nouns-fifth-vc-olufemi-peters-assumes-office/
3. https://prnigeria.com/2021/02/11/peters-assumes-nouns-chancellor/
