Jubilation As President Buhari Okays NOUN Amended Act

…NOUN law graduates can now go to law school

President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to the National Open University Amendment Act, which allows the National Open University to operate as all other universities in the country.

Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly (senate), Ita Enang disclosed this while briefing state House Correspondents on Friday after the National Executive Council meeting presided over by President Buhari.

Enang said: “President Buhari has also assented to National Open University Amendment Act, which allows the National Open University to operate as all other universities, having the same power and functions and the same administrative structures eliminating possible discrimination as some use to want to have on its products and programmes.

He said, “It has also allowed the establishment of some centers to be called study centers and given conditions for the establishment of such study centers.”

BigPen Online reports that the signing of the amended Act into law has triggered jubilation among students of the institution across the country as they can now go for the compulsory National Youth Service Corps, NYSC as well as law school which they were hitherto denied admission by the Council of Law Education.