National Open University of Nigeria

The National Attainable University of Nigeria is a Federal Attainable and Ambit Acquirements (ODL) institution, the aboriginal of its affectionate in the West African sub-region. It is Nigeria's better tertiary academy in agreement of apprentice numbers and is bargain referred to as 'NOUN'.The National Attainable University was initially accustomed on 22 July 1983 as springboard for attainable and ambit acquirements in Nigeria. It was abeyant by the government on 25 April 1984. However, its resuscitation was amorphous on the 12th of April 2001 by the above President of Nigeria, Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo. At yield off of the university, avant-garde apprentice acceptance stood at 32,400 In 2011, NOUN had about 57,759 students.The National Attainable University of Nigeria operates from its Administrative Headquarters in University Village, Plot 91, Cadastral Zone, Nnamdi Azikwe Express Way Jabi-Abuja, with 63 Abstraction Centres throughout the country. It offers over 50 programmes and 750 courses

NOUN does not accommodate lectures to acceptance in accustomed classrooms except some assertive abstraction centres, primarily due to constraints accepted to the University abandoned and the challenges usually faced by a developing tertiary institution. The abstraction centres provides facilitators to its undergraduates and food all-important advance abstracts to all acceptance afterwards the transaction of charge fees. All courses offered accept been accepted by the National Universities Commission (NUC).The Agent serves as the Secretary to Council and Senate bodies. The Registry Department’s primary albatross is to accommodate abutment casework in the General Administration of the University with accent on Council affairs, Senate matters, application of Staff, Students’ admission/welfare, Agents abundance and added accompanying activities. The agent is in being Mr Felix EdokaA assorted ambit of acceptance from all walks of activity are admiring to the National Attainable University of Nigeria just like added arresting Attainable Universities such as the Attainable University of United Kingdom (OU); for a lot of courses there are no acrimonious access requirements added than the adeptness to abstraction at an adapted akin such as the West African Examination, and added National Diplomas to authorize for a Direct access admission. Though a lot of postgraduate courses crave affirmation of antecedent abstraction and/or agnate activity experience. This axiological attainable admissions action makes undergraduate university abstraction attainable to allAnother acumen is the Act of Parliament which accustomed the University prohibiting any anatomy of abutment either aural agents or students. This has fabricated the NOUN to be artless by strikes such as the ASUU strikes (which lasted for eight months) in Nigeria which ultimately extends acceptance advance continuance in academy unnecessarily. NOUN acceptance accept consistently and will abide to be allowed to any anatomy of strike