The Nigerian National Assembly is about to pass a law to allow graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN to participate in the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, and the Nigerian Law School.
The information was revealed by Abdallah Adamu, the vice chancellor of the institution in an interview with Premium Times.
Adamu explained, “We want to amend the
act. That is why we have been going to the National Assembly. We even
had a public hearing. Luckily, it’s not even us that is now initiating
it, it’s now the legislators themselves.
“They sponsor the bill themselves. It
passed the first reading, passed the second reading then we went for
public hearing and it passed public hearing and they brought it back to
us just on Monday for any amendment before it will go for final hearing
before it goes to the president for assent,” the professor said.
Adamu further said that he expects the
National Assembly to pass the appropriate bill to allow for law
graduates to go to law school.
“When the bill is passed into law, then
they have no right to block our students from participating. In fact, we
can even sue them for denying our graduates their rights because we are
no longer part time.”
According to the professor, “The fact is
that the National University Commission(NUC) law doesn’t allow those
who do part time studies to do NYSC and the original act that
established NOUN says we offer courses by correspondence and that is the
expression NYSC is using to say ‘if it’s a correspondence course then
it is part time, if its part time then the students are not eligible for
NYSC.’
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