The National Universities Commission (NUC) has granted accreditation to 42 academic programmes run by the Federal University Lokoja (FUL) in Kogi State.
The Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Olayemi Akinwumi, who made this known in Lokoja today, June 28, said that the news of the programme accreditation was conveyed to the university via a letter signed by the acting Director of Accreditation, Engr. Abraham Chundusu on behalf of the Acting NUC Executive Secretary, Chris Maiyaki.
The Vice Chancellor said that accreditation was sequel to the October/November 2023 accreditation exercise which has now been released to the University.
He gave the list of the newly accredited programmes which cut across different Departments and Faculties to include: Administration, Accounting, Banking and Finance, Business Administration and Public Administration.
Others are Arts, Arabic, Archaeology, Christian Religious Studies, Islamic Religious Studies, Linguistics, Music, Philosophy, Theatre Arts, Communication and Media Studies.
Others are Mass Communications, Computing, Computer Science, Business Education, Education Biology, Education Chemistry, Education Computer, Education Economics, Education English Language, Education Geography and Education History.
He said that others are Education Mathematics, Education Physics. Education Political Science, Guidance and Counseling, Integrated Science, Library and Information Science. Social Studies, Science, Biochemistry, Biology and Biotechnology.
Others are Botany, Chemistry, Geology, Industrial Chemistry, Mathematics, Microbiology, Physics, Statistics, Zoology, Social Science and Sociology.
The Vice Chancellor thanked the NUC, a supervisory agency of the Federal Government, saddled with the statutory mandate of accrediting academic programmes in all Nigerian Universities, for the accreditation of the 42 programmes.
“We are glad that all the 42 programmes assessed by NUC (most for the first time) in the last year’s exercise have been accredited.
“This is because upon my assumption of office in 2021, I inherited most of these new programmes established by my predecessor which were not resource verified by NUC or recognized by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
“I then took it upon myself to ensure that these programmes undergo resource verification by the supervisory bodies as the first step and prerequisite before presenting them also for subsequent accreditation as government is a continuum.
“This was in spite of the daunting challenges of sourcing for the huge financial resources needed to ensure a smooth and successful resource verification of such a large number of new programmes inherited.
“Indeed, this is a milestone received with great joy by members of the University community, particularly the 400L students whose hope and chances of graduating this year and mobilized for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme were uncertain before now.”
He said that the university had earlier secured the re-accreditation of the existing programmes in the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, while the administration, in line with its five-year vision plan, went ahead to also establish new programmes including Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing Science, Medical Laboratory, Engineering, Law, Agriculture, Educational Management and Planning, among others.
Professor Akinwumi expressed profound appreciation to the NUC, members of Senate, Staff and Students of the University for their cooperation and tireless efforts that led to thw remarkable achievements.
