25/01/2017
The Registrar of the Joint
Admissions and Matriculation
Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq
Oloyede, has called on all
agencies of the Federal
Government, especially the Council for Legal Education
(CLE), and the National Youth
Service Corps (NYSC), to respect
the provisions of the law and
stop the discrimination against
graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). Oloyede said this yesterday at
the 6th Pre-Convocation Lecture
of the Open University held in
Abuja. It would be recalled that
for some years now, the Council
for Legal Education has denied law graduates of NOUN,
admission into law school,
arguing that the Open
University was a part time
programme. Opposing
arguments by the vice chancellor of NOUN, Professor
Abdalla Uba Adamu, that the
Open University was a full time
programme, as well as the
intervention by the National
Universities Commission (NUC), under immediate past executive
secretary, Professor Julius
Okojie, failed to get the CLE to
yield. Likewise, the NYSC has allegedly
refused to mobilise graduates of
the Open University for the one
year national service on same
argument. Professor Oloyede said
yesterday, that the agencies are
taking the law into their hands.
He enjoined them to take the
matter to the National
Assembly, rather than deny the graduates their rights either
into law school or into the NYSC
programme. According to him, those who are
castigating the Open University
are ignorant, and the NUC
should call them to order. m.guardian.ng/news/jamb-
registrar-tasks-cle-nysc-to-
respect-law-regarding-noun-
graduates
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