By Godfrey AKON
The National Universities Commission, NUC, has granted accreditation to all 26 academic programmes of the University of Abuja, UniAbuja, presented to it for approval.
The university, in a statement, said while 22 of the programmes obtained full accreditation, only 4 have interim accreditation status, adding the accreditation for a period of five years.
According to the university, Banking and Finance, as well as English and Computer Science which previously had interim accreditation now have full accreditation.
The list of the academic programmes provided full accreditation include: Banking and Finance, Agriculture, Christian Religious Knowledge, English, Linguistics, Islamic Studies, Philosophy, Computer Science, Agricultural Education, Education Biology, Education Chemistry, Education Economics, and Education Mathematics.
Others are Environmental Education, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Biology, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Geography, Political Science and International Relations.
Academic programmes with interim accreditation include Economics, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Integrated Science.
“It is pertinent to note that all accredited programmes have validity periods of five years. Therefore, all other programmes not listed here still enjoy their full accreditation status before the next exercise by NUC,” the institution said.
While disclosing this to the university community, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah said, “I want to seize on this happy, joyful and celebratory moment for our entire campus to yet again appeal to UniAbuja Branch of ASUU and all those academic staff who have abandoned their classes to please return to class now.
“This success was achieved together, with everybody working hard and putting up the best of the UofA spirit.
