Authorities of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) plan to
honour the late Dr Stella Adadevoh as part of activities to mark the
institution’s 4th convocation ceremony.
Addressing newsmen at its Victoria Island, Lagos Headquarters
yesterday, the vice chancellor, Professor Ado Tenebe, said the
institution will bestow a posthumous honorary award of Doctor of Science
on Late Dr Ameyo Stella Adadevoh.
Dr Adadevoh was the medical doctor at First Consultant Hospital,
Lagos, who prevented what would have been a national catastrophe in the
spread of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Nigeria. She died on Tuesday,
August 19, 2014 after contracting EVD from the index case, the late
American-Liberian, Patrick Sawyer who flew in to Nigeria.
He also announced that among the graduating students at the 4th
convocation that will hold later this month are two inmates from the
Kirikiri Maximum and Enugu prisons who will also receive certificates
having been found worthy in learning and character.
The VC explained that the prison is to serve as a correction centre
for people tried and found guilty by a court of law, saying that the
effort of the institution in taking education to the prisons is
basically to make the inmates better persons when their prison terms are
completed.
He further announced that the immediate past inspector-general of
police, Mr Muhammad Abubakar will also be honoured with Honoris Causa
Degree of Doctor of Letters of the university for his contributions to
security issues in the country.
The VC, who added that over 7,000 graduates of the university will be
conferred with degrees, certificates and diplomas at the convocation
ceremony, added that a paper titled, “Open and Distance Learning and
Democratic Transformation in Nigeria” will be the subject of the
convocation lecture to be addressed by the Special Adviser to the
President on Political Matters, Professor Godswill Obioma earlier today.
Speaking on the content of the Open Distance Learning (ODL),
Professor Tenebe said the impression of ODL as part-time programme
created in the minds of Nigerians in some quarters’ is wrong, say that
the institution is a full fledged university owned by the Federal
Government of Nigeria.
He stated that the institution remains the only university that has
given and taken education to the various sections of the country, adding
that it had successfully produced quality graduates with about 75 per
cent hands-on-skill training for the country. “We are also using this
opportunity to tell the world that the National Open University of
Nigeria is one institution that will be able to solve the problem of the
country because we are not just an ordinary university.
“We are a university that ensures that skills are adequately
transferred to our citizens especially and that is why in our centre for
life-long learning we give emphasis on skill acquisition programme. “We
want to assure the government and in fact Nigerians that if proper
attention is given to NOUN this is the institution that will provide
solution to problems of unemployment, idleness and even insecurity that
is one major problem all over the world today. We are not just a
university that will propound theory without backing it up. We have the
wherewithal to demonstrate to this country and indeed the whole of West
Africa that if distance learning is properly embrace all the problems I
have enumerated will be solved,” he added
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