{"id":64443,"date":"2024-04-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricavoice.com\/?guid=46a1ad214b3acb61325701f6a4307de6"},"modified":"2024-04-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T00:00:00","slug":"23-inmates-bag-varsity-degrees-at-enugu-custodial-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricavoice.com\/23-inmates-bag-varsity-degrees-at-enugu-custodial-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"23 inmates bag varsity degrees at Enugu Custodial Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nTwenty-three inmates of the Enugu Custodial Centre bagged Masters, first degree and Post Graduate Diploma of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Five of them bagged the Master’s degree, 17 bagged their first degrees, while one got a Post-Graduate Diploma.<\/p>\n
The 23 are products of NOUN’s study centre at the custodial facility that completed their various courses within four or five years.<\/p>\n
State Coordinator of NOUN, Nigerian Correctional Service, Mrs Jennifer Nwonyi, presented the degrees and diploma to the graduates at a virtual convocation held at the Enugu Custodial Centre.<\/p>\n
She noted that the graduates had defied all odds to attain the great heights.<\/p>\n
‘I am overwhelmed with joy that God granted these students the grace to successfully complete their studies to become graduates of NOUN.<\/p>\n
‘Thank God that these graduates overcame the psychological challenge of attending to rigours of years study while being held at the custodial centre.<\/p>\n
‘I say congratulations to our graduates and wish
\nthem great advancements as we have prepared them to face and overcome future challenges when they leave the custodial centre,” Nwonyi said.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the ceremony, Mr Sunday Oyakhire, Deputy Controller of Corrections in charge of Enugu Maximum Custodial Centre, thanked NOUN for organising the courses and for providing facilitators.<\/p>\n
In his remarks, Mr Arinzechukwu Onovo, the correctional centre’s Desk Officer for NOUN programmes, encouraged the graduates to continue to search for knowledge, saying: ‘it is the key to unlock many potentials.”<\/p>\n
‘We had a greater number of graduates of NOUN courses this year than we had last year.<\/p>\n
‘We will continue to encourage more inmates to take advantage of free educational reformation available at the correctional facility in partnership with NOUN,” Onovo said.<\/p>\n
Source: News Agency of Nigeria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twenty-three inmates of the Enugu Custodial Centre bagged Masters, first degree and Post Graduate Diploma of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Five of them bagged the Master’s degree, 17 bagged their first degrees, while one…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n