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Former Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC) and Head of Universities Education Curriculum Review Committee, Prof Peter Okebukola, has refuted a message being shared on some social media platforms claiming that there is an ongoing plan by the curriculum review committee to scrap some undergraduate programmes in Nigerian universities.
He said the report is totally a falsehood as his led-committee had no such plan either now or later and therefore asked people in the academic circle and members of the public to disregard the news which he described as fake.
In the said WhatsApp message purportedly addressed to members of the Nigerian Academy of Education, it was alleged that the education review committee headed by Professor Okebukola was planning to scrap some undergraduate programmes that included Educational Administration & Planning (or Educational Management); Guidance and Counselling; and Early Childhood Education/Primary Education, and that m
Obasanjo, education minister, others extol Professor Okebukola’s virtues as he retires Obasanjo, education minister, others extol Professor Okebukola’s virtues as he retires
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo; Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu and the Executive Secretary of National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Abubakar Rasheed, have all commended former Executive Secretary of NUC, Professor Peter Okebukola, for what they called his strong contributions to the development of African education and humanity.
Professor Okebukola is currently Chairman of Governing Council of National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), as well as the Director of Africa Centre of Excellence for Innovative and Transformative STEM Education at Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo.