Olusegun Obasanjo, the former president of Nigeria has once again appealed the government to resolve the issue of National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) graduates being barred from attending the Nigerian law school.
Obasanjo also called on the Federal Government to increase funding of NOUN for it to meet its objectives citing tight economic conditions on the part of the students and a vista of opportunities accessible to keen minds in search of knowledge.
“Whereas we have made the university popular, we still have a sort of what I call either ignorance or resistance. I try to explain, and I think we need to do this, people don’t know how the Open University works. And we need to make them know it.”
It is noteworthy to mention that the former president is an alumnus of NOUN. In a courtesy visit from Abdalla Uba Adamu, the vice chancellor of the institution, Obasanjo pointed out that the gravity of the matter requiring timely attention.
Following the Council for Legal Education’s (CLE) assertion that the part-time law programmes were inept at producing well rounded lawyers, the school suspended admission into its LLB programme.
NOUN on its part contends that its law is not a part-time affair. This contention fell on ears forcing the National Universities Commission (NUC) to place a moratorium on the programme.
