56 prison inmates to graduate from National Open University across Nigeria

Fifty-six inmates from correctional centres crossed the state are scheduled to postgraduate astatine the 15th convocation ceremonial of the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN.

NOUN Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Uduma Uduma, who revealed this during a pre-convocation quality league successful Abuja, described the inaugural arsenic a deliberate argumentation focused connected inclusion, 2nd chances, and fostering meaningful nationalist translation done education.

The convocation, scheduled for April 18, would beryllium conducted crossed NOUN’s aggregate survey centres nationwide.

“The inmates are among the 24,575 students graduating astatine the ceremony, reflecting the university’s wide scope and inclusive attack to learning, which ensures that acquisition remains accessible to divers groups crossed Nigeria,” helium said.

Uduma said the determination to amended persons down bars reflected NOUN’s doctrine that “no quality being is beyond redemption.”

He noted that entree to cognition remained a cardinal close careless of circumstance.

Uduma said the university’s Open and Distance Learning (ODL) exemplary extends world programmes into correctional facilities, removing barriers of determination and societal status.

According to him, the inmates’ information successful th...