The National Universities Commission (NUC) may have given its full nod to the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) for the six academic courses examined by the NUC team in March/April, this year.
In a statement jointly issued by Special Adviser on Media Matters to FUOYE Vice Chancellor, Prof. Abayomi Sunday Fasina, Mr. Wole Balogun and the Chief Information Officer to the VC, Mr. Foluso Ogunmodede, they said that the full accreditation given to the six academic programmes status is valid for a period of five years.
The statement read, “The Management of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) wishes to announce to our partners in the Media that the accreditation exercise conducted by the National Universities Commission (NUC) in March/April, 2021 has produced full accreditation of all the six academic programmes that were examined by the NUC team in our great Ivory Tower.
“The six programmes that received full accreditation were Agriculture and Hospitality/Tourism Management in the Faculty of Agriculture, English/Literary Studies and Theatre/Media Arts Studies in the Faculty of Arts, as well as Demography/Social Statistics and Sociology in the Faculty of Social Sciences.
“The good news was conveyed to the Management by the NUC in a letter addressed to the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abayomi Sunday Fasina, dated August 2, 2021, and signed by the Director of Accreditation, NUC, Dr. Mariam Sali, on behalf of the Executive Secretary of the NUC.
“The NUC also gave further clarification on the development in its letter which was entitled: ‘Results of the October/November 2020 Accreditation of Academic Programmes of Nigerian Universities’, and reads in part: ‘The National Universities Commission (NUC) has the statutory mandate to accredit academic programmes in all Nigerian Universities. Pursuant to this mandate and in consonance with the provisions of the current Government approved guidelines, initial accreditation of a new programme is held after the programme has run for two academic sessions following approval for the establishment of the programme.
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“ ‘Thereafter, the Commission accredits the approved programmes as and when due.
Consequently, the NUC organized the accreditation of academic programmes at the Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State, in March\April, 2021, because it was unable to visit the University due to COVID-19 pandemic AND ASUU strike…’
“The NUC added that the full accreditation given to the six aforementioned academic programmes status is valid for a period of five years.
“The Accreditation Committee headed by Prof. J. Shola Omotola, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration) wishes to thank the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Sunday Abayomi Fasina for providing the required resources within a month of his assumption of office as the 4th substantive Vice-Chancellor of FUOYE for the success of the exercise,” the statement said.
