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Nigerian Open University Gets Prof Joy As First Female Deputy Vice-Chancellor

The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has got Professor Joy Eyisi as its first female Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academics),

Professor Joy, who defeated others in an election conducted by the university Senate yesterday, Wednesday, after the seat became vacant at the expiration of the tenure of Professor Patrick Eya, is expected to resume duty in December as the director of the university’s Regional Training for Open and Distance Learning.

The new Deputy Vice Chancellor, who is a professor of English language, was the immediate past director of NOUN’s special study centre located at the National Assembly. She hails from Adazi-Ani, Ani-Ocha local government area of Anambra state.

Her tenure is for two years.

At the brief handover ceremony held NOUN’s headquarters in Abuja, the new DVC thanked her predecessor for his fatherly advice and the university management for the confidence it reposed in her.

The event was witnessed  by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Abdalla Uba Adamu, who felicitated with both Eya and Eyisi – one for successfully completing his tenure and the other for her victory.

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Adamu reiterated his oft-repeated confidence in NOUN’s women community, saying the women in the university are some of the best in Nigerian academia.

He said that Professor Joy’s election has reaffirmed the balancing act in the university whereby every geopolitical zone in the country is represented in NOUN’s management structure. [myad]