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Inmate Bags Second Class Degree From National Open University
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, an inmate of the Nigerian Correctional Service in Kuje Custodial Centre, Mr Chinwendu Heart, has graduated with a Second Class Upper degree in Theological Studies from the National Open University of Nigeria. In a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer, Federal Capital Territory Command, Mr. Chukwuedo Humphrey, […]
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, an inmate of the Nigerian Correctional Service in Kuje Custodial Centre, Mr Chinwendu Heart, has graduated with a Second Class Upper degree in Theological Studies from the National Open University of Nigeria.
In a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer, Federal Capital Territory Command, Mr. Chukwuedo Humphrey, on Wednesday, in Abuja.
Humphrey quoted the Librarian, NOUN, Dr Angela Okpala, who presented the degree certificate on Tuesday as encouraging the graduate to be a good ambassador of the university as well as the correctional service.
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Speaking, Mr Ibrahim Shehu, the officer in charge of Kuje Custodial Centre said that the inmate had shown an exemplary character over time.
Shehu enjoined other inmates to cease the opportunity of the free education from NOUN degree and improve themselves, adding that education was the bedrock of human development.
The graduand, Heart, expressed happiness, saying that he had come into the Kuje Custodial centre without a secondary school certificate. He further encouraged other inmates to engage themselves in these regimes of reform in the custodial centre instead of being idle and giving in to social vices.
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