Dr. Oba Adeleke Adenuga (SCD Abeokuta),representing the VC
The National Open University of Nigeria(NOUN), has admitted fourteen inmates at the Ogun State Medium Security Correctional Centre .
This was announced at the Matriculation Ceremony held on Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at the facilities of Oba Custodial Centre and Borstal Institute, Adigbe in the state.
During the ceremony, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olufemi Peters in his address, charged the inmates to optimize the opportunity Nigeria Correctional Service and NOUN have brought to them to enable them gain knowledge that will make them contribute meaningfully in the development of the country.
The VC added that the students should dedicate themselves to timely and appropriate use of learning materials and teaching aids which are available at the study centres of their choices.
Peters, who was represented by the Director, Abeokuta Study Center, Dr. Segun Adenuga, congratulated the inmates for being successful in their online admission and registration process.
Controller of Corrections, Ogun State Command Abdurashed Alimi, representing the Controller General of Corrections, Haliru Nababa
He advised them to be well-behaved and demonstrate at all times that “NOUN offers quality education.”
The VC expressed gratitude of NOUN to NCoS for its support and specially appreciated the Controller of Correctional Service, Ogun State Command, Abdurasheed Alimi for his open door policy.
Earlier in his welcome address, the Controller General of Corrections, Haliru Nababa, represented by the Controller of Corrections, Ogun State Command Abdurashed Alimi, implored the matriculating students and other inmates to embrace opportunity offered to them by NOUN to acquire life-changing knowledge.
Nababa reiterated that the occasion underscored the core mandate of the Nigerian Correctional Service “which is to reform and rehabilitate those in its care and subsequently reintegrate them back to the society.”
He added that programmes like this will improve and increase employment opportunities for those who take the programmes seriously.
Group photograph after the Matriculation with the SCD
Nababa further added that over 3,200 inmates are currently undergoing various profound and life-changing programmes with the NOUN and other higher institutions that are in partnership with the service.
He expressed his appreciation to President Muhammadu Buhari for the rare commitment to life-changing programmes for offenders in custody.
While appreciating the effort of development partners in this worthy course, the CG used the opportunity to call on members of the public to see the new Correctional Service as a training institute empowered to rebuild mind and character.
The Correctional Service boss assured of “his irrevocable commitment to the safety and reformation of the inmates in the custody of the service at all times.”
This was the fifth matriculation ceremony at the Custodial Centre, under the auspices of NOUN.
The Officer in charge of Old Abeokuta Custodial Centre, Ibara, Abeokuta, Deputy Controller of Corrections, Bamidele Oshin equally commended NOUN for its partnership with the centre on academic programmes.