The National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN, is set to conduct online matriculation ceremony for its new students on Saturday, June 18.
This was contained in a statement issued and signed by the NOUN director of media and publicity, Ibrahim Sheme, on Saturday.
The release stated that the development was due to the ongoing lockdown of the Nigerian education system caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Solacebase reports that this coming for the first time in the history of the Nigerian university system.
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The statement explained that during the event, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abdalla Uba-Adamu, would deliver his address, followed by administering of the oath of the 19th matriculation on the students by the Registrar, Felix Idoka, both from remote locations without the students being physically present.
According to the statement, the virtual event would be beamed live through the Zoom application.
The statement, therefore, advised the students to download the Zoom application to enable themselves to participate from home or any other location, adding that the application password would be communicated to them soon.
Also, the university has withdrawn its earlier announcement that students could collect academic gowns from their various study centres for the matriculation ceremony, saying it was issued in error.
A release from the registrar’s office said that it would be quite impossible to conduct an exercise of that nature physically due to the lockdown.
The statement added that the centre directors have been told not to open any study centre or allow a gathering of students “until the ban on all tertiary institutions is lifted” by the federal government.
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