Multiple graduates of the school lamented how they spent monies running into hundreds of thousands of naira in the school but failed to have a certificate to show for the years spent studying years later.
The National Open University of Nigeria has been accused of failing to award certificates to graduates of the school many months after graduation.
Multiple graduates of the school lamented how they spent monies running into hundreds of thousands of naira in the school but failed to have a certificate to show for the years spent studying years later.
A complainant who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of vicitimisation noted that she spent five years in the environmental management and toxicology department, only for her and other course mates to be told that the course was cancelled during the first semester of the final year.
All course members were then asked to join the ‘environmental science and resource management’ department in 2021.
The source noted that the school failed to graduate anyone of them who were transferred from environmental toxicology to environmental science when the class of students whom they joined were graduating in 2022.
According to the affected graduates, this is despite spending five years in the school as the course they joined (environmental science and resource management is a four-year course) whereas their initial course is a five-year course.
It was gathered that only one of the students had his name released among the convoking students last year, out of the 20 students who were transferred in 2021 from the environmental toxicology; the lone student only attended convocation but never got any certification.
So, all the students of the environmental management and toxicology department who got admitted in 2017 have yet to be graduated as of 2024, about seven years after their admission.
Another victim, who finished from the criminology department noted that despite spending about a million naira to undertake a degree programme in the school, he was yet to receive a certificate since his graduation in July 2023.
Other students who spoke to SaharaReporters lamented their inability to get evidence of going to a university due to lack of a certificate award from the national open university.
Despite many complaints, the students have yet to be issued their certificates.
SaharaReporters reached out to the school’s director of media and publicity, Ibrahim Sheme, but he had failed to comment on the issue as of the time of this report.
This is despite acknowledging the messages sent to him on WhatsApp.