Buhari Approves Bill That Allows NOUN Graduates Participate In NYSC, Law School

Buhari Approves Bill That Allows NOUN Graduates Participate In NYSC, Law School

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) Amendment Act, to allow the institution to operate as all other universities in the country.

The assent literally means graduates of the NOUN can now participate in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and the Nigerian Law School.

The Presidential Assistant on National Assembly (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, announced the assent of the President while addressing State House reporters on Friday in Abuja.

He said: “President Buhari has also assented to National Open University Amendment Act, which allows the National Open University to operate as all other universities, having the same power and functions and the same administrative structures eliminating possible discrimination as some use to want to have on its products and programmes.

”It has also allowed the establishment of some centers to be called study centers and given conditions for the establishment of such study centers.”

The National Assembly had passed a bill for An Act to Amend the National Open University Act Cap N6 LFN 1983 (Amendment) Bill 2017’.

The same day he assented to this bill, the president declined assent to the 2018 Electoral Act Amendment bill and returned it to the National Assembly.