From AMEDU JOSEPH, Lokoja
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has granted approval to Salem University, Lokoja to run PhD and other post graduate programmes.
The university’s Vice Chancellor (VC), Prof. Alewo Johnson-Akubo, made the disclosure while speaking with journalists in Lokoja at the weekend.
Johnson-Akubo said that the approval was communicated to the management of the university via a letter, which he described as “an answered prayer.”
He said that approval was issued to the university to run PhD and other post graduate programmes in Law, Accounting, Criminology and Security Studies, Business Administration, Public Administration, Microbiology and Computer Science.
“This approval is to us a huge blessing added to our accredited undergraduate courses, ” Johnson-Akubo said.
According to him, the university has begun to admit prospective candidates for the various approved post graduate programmes.
“With this feat achieved by Salem University, interested candidates are free to apply to undertake any of the programmes from this moment.
“This is because Salem University, Lokoja has tremendously grown and enlarged its academic standard, which has placed it among the best universities in the country.
“Our mission and vision, as a citadel of learning, is to train and raise change agents who are “mentally alert, spiritually alive and intellectually developed to change their world.” the VC said.
