NOUN Governing Council assures fairness in vice-chancellor selection

By Joseph Erunke, Abuja

The Governing Council of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has dismissed societal media reports alleging that a imaginable campaigner for the bureau of Vice-Chancellor was excluded from consideration.

In a connection issued connected Thursday successful Abuja, the Director of Media and Publicity, Ibrahim Sheme, clarified that the database being circulated arsenic a “congregation list” is neither last nor a determinant of those qualified for the position.

“The names of members connected the alleged congregation database are not last and successful nary mode correspond the database of members qualified to beryllium Vice-Chancellor. Indeed, the said sanction has been included successful the congregation list,” the connection read.

Sheme further explained that the exertion process for the station of Vice-Chancellor, which was advertised successful 3 nationalist newspapers, is inactive ongoing and volition stay unfastened until the stipulated deadline.

“The hunt for the adjacent Vice-Chancellor is not foreclosed. It is simply a enactment successful advancement which continues until the advertised deadline is reached,” helium added.

The governing assembly assured the assemblage assemblage that the enactment workout would beryllium transparent, fair, and conscionable to each aspirants. It besides urged the nationalist to disregard reports aimed astatine misinforming the nationalist and creating unnecessary contention astir the process.

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