These are heavy allegations and I hope management looks into it to avoid an individual besmirching the good name of our glorious alma mater

Allegations of high-handedness and abuse of office have been levelled against the Director of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) Enugu Study Centre, Prof. Charity Okonkwo. According to sources, the director has been accused of using her position to assert dominance and mistreat staff and students of the study centre.

The Director who was posted to Enugu in March this year from her previous station in Uyo study centre is allegedly fond of bullying, harassing, and unfairly treating staff, students, and graduates (stakeholders). A source who spoke to AnchorNews in Enugu reported that the director has created a toxic work environment and has been using her position to intimidate and victimize those who dare to speak out citing her strong connection from the Abuja headquarters of the university.

The source noted that "this goes against the director's statement on assumption of office where she asserted the importance of treating students well with the aim of making their academic journey a pleasurable experience".

Prof. Okonkwo in her assumption speech said, “My first advocacy is to serve and treat the students well, like the saying goes: the taste of the pudding is in the eating. These students, when satisfied, will in turn spread the gospel of Open and Distance Learning (ODL) to their colleagues, friends, among others, thereby increasing the students influx at the centre.”

Specific allegations against the Professor of Educational Measurement and Evaluation, include denying students the necessary resources and support to make their study in the university seamless despite the institution being an open and distant learning school. Jettisoning the university motto “Learn at any place at your pace”, Mrs. Okonkwo sets activities in the study centre according to her schedule and refuses to delegate some duties to staff who were actually employed for those specific duties, leaving the students stranded in their academic pursuits.

The most recent allegation of abuse of office against the director arose from the commencement of the issuance of certificates to the 2024 graduates who have been waiting for their certificates since the university convocation earlier in April. The exercise which was supposed to be held in the study centre from Monday 15th July to Friday 2nd August from 9am to 4pm each day, as directed by the university management, turned to a strenuous and frustrating experience for graduates as Prof. Charity Okonkwo (the director) insisted on issuing the certificates from her office which she scheduled for 12 noon to 2pm each day to attend to graduates in one batch and close for the day which violated the circulated university directive of the issuance timeframe of 9am to 4pm daily.

This process, was never communicated to the graduates prior to coming for their certificates as those that came after she has done the batch of 12pm had to go back home and return the next day no matter the distance they are coming from and plea from the graduates. This is in addition to charging the graduates to compulsorily pay the sum of N2,000 (Two thousand naira) for an alumni muffler, which wasn't issued at the point of certificate collection, and this payment was also found to be illegal as it didn't originate from the university management.

"The graduating students had already paid the alumni fee (N5,000) as approved by the university management during their final clearance prior to convocation," a source said.

According to reports, the NOUN Enugu study center director often uses intimidation tactics and verbal abuse to unsettle students during exams. Students have alleged that the Director often penalize them unfairly for minor infractions, such as arriving as little as two minutes late for an exam, by denying them access to the examination ultimately. This goes against the university's laid down examination guidelines which stipulates that students can have a maximum of 30 minutes to arrive for an exam, at which point they can no longer participate in the said exam. This mistreatment has led to undue stress and anxiety for many students, ultimately affecting their performance and overall well-being.

These allegations and others have sparked outrage and calls for an investigation into the matter by stakeholders in the study centre. The university's management has been urged to take swift action to address the situation and ensure that the study centre is run in a fair and transparent manner to avoid a situation where students desert the Enugu study centre as already evidenced by the dwindling number of students enrolling through the centre and those already applying for change of study center.

The National Open University of Nigeria is yet to comment on the allegations, as calls placed to their public phone number didn't connect and that of the director wasn't answered after several calls.

Source: https://www.anchornews.net/story?article=iULCnpksrlvjHWSQ3Ou1VTmw

Stats should sit up and tackle this hunger from the grassroot

An education champion and the former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Gregory Obi, has weighed in on the widely circulated claim by the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, that the Federal Government of Nigeria had disbursed 30 billion Naira to each of the 36 states of the federation and received by the Governors. Read the full statement by the Labour Party 2023 Presidential candidate issued via his Twitter handle below.

Peter Gregory Obi


Recently, the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio announced that a staggering financial support of N1.1 trillion, amounting to a sum of N30 billion each was doled out to the State Governors to help ameliorate the present hardship in the country.

While the Federal Government is to be commended for offering such a huge support, considering the difficult times people are going through, it is pertinent, for the interest of good governance and transparency, that the details of the disbursement of such support be explained further, so that the public, the masses for whom the support is meant, can follow through and ensure that it is utilized appropriately to the benefit of the people.

While waiting for such details, I appeal that concerted efforts should be made to ensure that the resources are genuinely and transparently invested in productive ventures to alleviate present hardship and help the future growth of the country.

We must stop this unproductive habit of throwing scarce and borrowed money at immediate problems, and consumption, but rather through an articulated plan, invest aggressively in production, in a clear, visible, and transparent manner, in which people can see the future benefits.

Source; https://unn-edu.info/2024/02/akpabio-peter-obi-30-billion-state-governors.html

The commission have already trained and profiled all other positions for the census.

Best wishes

*Response from NPC I.C.T Personnel*

1: The upcoming training is for Supervisors and Enumerators only. All Applicants with pending issues are to report to the training venue when the date is announced as a separate list will be provided for the pending applicants for their approval.

2: NPC only want to work with applicants that will be physically present at the training.

3: I.C.T stopped approving because they are waiting for the training to commence so they know the number of people that will show up for training.

4: Applicants with pending statuses that showed up for training will be approved during the training. Also gate crashers with valid NPC IDs will be approved at the training centres also

5: You can attend the training at any location closest to you. Await further information form NPC concerning training.

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ANS: (a) If the same quantity of electricity is passed through different voltameters/electrolytes connected in series the masses of the substances liberated/deposited during electrolysis is (directly) proportional to their chemical equivalents.
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The immigration recruitment list of candidates for physical screening has been released. The Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has shortlisted 6,105 candidates out of the 45,323 who applied to be enlisted in its 2019/2020 recruitment.

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With this, the university has jettisoned the writing of the Post-UTME screening exam for this year's admission. Cc: Lalasticlala, Olawalebabs

This is to inform the entire University community and the General Public that the PostUTME and other relevant Screening Examinations for the 2020/2021 admission exercise have been replaced with the O'level and UTME results grading system.

This is also in consideration of the very large number of applications and the need to comply with COVID-19 preventive guidelines of the Federal Government of Nigeria. In place of Post UTME Scores and other relevant Screening Examination Scores, the University Management has adopted an automated O’level subject grading system for the exercise.

In order to ensure transparency in the admission exercise, the following calculation formula will be used for the exercise.

Candidates will be screened based on their  JAMB scores and  O’level result for the four subjects taken in JAMB. The following considerations will apply:

A. RATIO  - The ratio will be  70:30.  i.e 70% JAMB  score and  30% O’level  subject score
70/100 = 0.7; 30/100 = 0.3

B. RANKING OF O’LEVEL SUBJECTS SCORE – O’level results will be ranked  as given below:
A1= 90
B2= 80
B3= 70
C4= 60
C5= 55
C6= 50
D7= 40
E8 to F9=0
Awaiting Result (AR) =0

For each candidate, the  O’level subjects used will be the subjects the candidate sat for in JAMB. E.g for a candidate who sat for  English, Mathematics, Chemistry, and  Physics in JAMB, the grades obtained in candidate O’level results in these subjects will be used to calculate the O’level points obtained.

C. BONUS – A candidate who credited his four subjects in a single sitting will get a bonus of 20 points (i.e Bonus =20).   A candidate who credited his four subjects in two sitting will get no bonus (i.e Bonus = 0).

D. CALCULATIONS –
Final score = [(JAMB SCORE`* 0.7) + [(O’level score + Bonus)*0.3]

Source: https://unn-edu.info/2021/03/unizik-grading-system-for-2020-21-session-admissions-new.html

Those that got mails to update and upload their documents should note that the process ends today 28th February. Endeavour to do yours before midnight.
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