Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has been appointed as a part-time academic coordinator at the National Open University of Nigeria, Abeokuta Study C
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has been appointed as a part-time academic coordinator at the National Open University of Nigeria, Abeokuta Study Centre, Ogun State. Obasanjo, who received a Doctor of Philosophy in Christian Theology at the NOUN in January 2018 and was the first PhD holder from the institution, was conducted round his office on Tuesday by the director of the Abeokuta centre, Prof. Ibrahim Salawu. According to a release on Tuesday by the NOUN Director of Media and Publicity, Ibrahim Sheme, the former President was appointed as a facilitator at the institution by the NOUN Vice-Chancellor, Prof Abdalla Adamu.
Sheme said Obasanjo had expressed satisfaction at the office space allotted him and promised to work for the progress of the university. The release said, “Former President of Nigeria, Dr. Olusegun Obasanjo, is now a bona fide worker of NOUN, as he inspected his office space at the institution’s Abeokuta Study Centre in Ogun State on Tuesday, in his capacity as a facilitator. The VC, Prof Adamu, had soon after the former President’s graduation in January appointed him as a facilitator. A facilitator is part-time academic coordinators for students in the Open and Distance Learning system which open universities operate.”