{"id":2075,"date":"2023-09-16T07:35:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T07:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2023-09-16T07:35:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T07:35:25","slug":"uniabuja-others-running-unaccredited-engineering-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/09\/16\/uniabuja-others-running-unaccredited-engineering-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"UniAbuja, Others Running Unaccredited Engineering Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) has brought to light a concerning issue regarding the accreditation status of engineering programs in certain universities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During a news conference held in Abuja on Friday, Prof. Sadiq Abubakar, President of COREN, revealed that the University of Abuja, Modibo Adama University in Yola, Adamawa, and Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo, have been listed as institutions operating engineering programs with expired accreditation status.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Abubakar stated that the solutions were agreed at the 179th Ordinary Council Meeting on September 7.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), COREN is a statutory authority of the Federal Government tasked with regulating and controlling engineering education, training, and practise in all of its dimensions and ramifications.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to Abubakar, the public has to know that the universities are operating with expired accreditation and be guided when making choices, as well as notify the institutions to do the needful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) has brought to light a concerning issue regarding the accreditation status of engineering programs in certain universities. &nbsp; During a news conference held in Abuja on Friday, Prof. Sadiq Abubakar, President of COREN, revealed that the University of Abuja, Modibo Adama University in Yola, Adamawa, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[251],"class_list":["post-2075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-uniabuja"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}