NUC approves 29 new programmes for varsity in Lokoja

 

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved 29 new undergraduate programmes for the Federal University Lokoja, commencing from the 2019/2020 academic session.

Vice-Chancellor of the university, Professor  Angela Freeman Miri, who stated  this at a pre-convocation press briefing to mark the 3rd and 4th combined convocation ceremony of the institution, Monday said  the university was set to invite NUC for resource verification of the 29 new programmes approved by the commission.

Miri said all the programmes being run before the introduction of the 29 new programmes in the faculties of Arts, Social Sciences and Science received full accreditation from NUC.

She added that the institution was committed to the sustenance of the highest standards in all academic programmes that would guarantee full accreditation at all times.

The vice chancellor stated that the institution had commenced Master and PhD programmes under the School of Post-Graduate Studies and had advertised and admitted eligible candidates into the programmes for the 2019/2020 academic session.

Miri noted that the commencement of the Post-Graduate programmes was another important milestone that would afford the institution the opportunity to live up to its tripartite functions of teaching, research and community development.

He said under her leadership, 118 teaching and non-teaching staff of the institution were sponsored to local and international conferences and workshops under TETfund intervention.

She stated further that TETfund also sponsored Journal of Research and Development in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences as well as Confluence Journal of pure and applied Sciences under the faculty of sciences.

“We are striving to increase and improve on the existing facilities and to equally  lay emphasis on staff training and development so that the university will be able to cope with increasing number of students”, she said.

The VC said the university’s Health Services Medical Centre which was hitherto a 3-bedm clinic, had been expanded and remodelled to a 20-bed facility in order to meet up with the growing number of staff and students.