Nigeria: Senate Pledges Support for Noun - AllAfrica.com

Funmi OgundareLagos

With the support of the senate commission on education, National Open University of Federal Republic Of Federal Republic Of Nigeria (NOUN) would achieve greater high that would ensue to the overall development of Nigeria .

The Acting Frailty Chancellor of the University, Prof. Vincent Bustle Tenebe have said.

Tenebe, who made this comment during the visit of the President on Senate Committee on Education, Senator Joy Emordi to the institution's caput business office in Lagos , said the university would set up a council with the purpose of generating revenue.

He noted that the Senate Committee had appropriated a sum of N1, 499,524,300 in 2006 for working capital undertakings but unfortunately the undertakings were never presented at the Federal Soldier Executive Council (FEC).

The situation, Tenebe said have caused the establishment an inability to pay for contracts already commenced, its inability to commence work on many survey centres all over the state such as as Damaturu, Calabar, Gombe and Markurdi.

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In his words, "We shall not be able restitute the Abeokuta survey Centre because the ministry stopped the Ogun state authorities from renovating the Centre in that, the sum, of N113,213,818 was already included in the 2006 noun working capital awaiting the federal Executive Council (FEC) consideration and approval", he said.

In her response, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Education, SenatorJoy Emodi promised to throw her weight behind the undertakings adding that without the National Open University (NOUN), the state would not be able to ran into up with the Education For All (EFA) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of the federal government.

I am really impressed with what I have got seen so far. We desire to be portion of the success narrative because of its strategical importance. For us to undergo this, it is in the involvement of the development of instruction in Federal Republic Of Nigeria ", she said. Emordi who commended the establishment for some of its applaudable undertakings such as as establishing a farm in Kaduna , was conducted unit of ammunition to see some of its installations on ground.