The Vice-Chancellor, National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) Prof. Abdalla Adamu has doisclosed that the Nursing programme of the university has received full accreditation from the National Universities Commission (NUC) and Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria(NMCN).

He made this known during  the First Faculty of Health Sciences Public Lecture held at NOUN’s headquarters on Monday in Abuja.

He said that with BNSc. Nursing, B.Sc. Public Health and B.Sc. Environmental Health-fully accredited and B.Sc. Environmental Health resource verified and approved by NUC, the institution needed partnership the Federal Ministry of Health.

“NOUN B.Sc Nursing has been fully accredited by NUC and fully accredited Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria(NMCN).

“ We are very proud of this achievement and we congratulate the faculty of Health Sciences." 

“This event is important for because it provides a window of interactivity with the Federal Ministry of Health; we want to see more facilitators and supervisors from the ministry,’’ he said.