UniAbuja listed among varsities running engineering courses on expired accreditation

The Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) has listed the University of Abuja (UniAbuja) among institutions running engineering courses on an expired accreditation status.

NAN reports that COREN also listed Modibo Adama University in Adamawa and Ambrose Alli University in Edo.

COREN is the statutory body of the federal government that regulates and controls the education, training, and practice of engineering in Nigeria.

Sadiq Abubakar, the agency’s president, spoke in Abuja on Friday at a news conference.

The conference was to inform the public of the resolution COREN reached at its 179th ordinary council meeting held on September 7.

Abubakar said it is in the interest of the public to know that some universities are operating with expired accreditation.

“In Modibo Adama University, Adamawa state, Agricultural Engineering failed accreditation. Civil Engineering accreditation expired on Oct. 11, 2020, and Electrical Electronics Engineering expired on March 10, 2021,” he said.

“Chemical Engineering expired on March 10, 2021, and Mechanical Engineering expired on March 10, 2021.

“For the University of Abuja, Chemical Engineering and Civil Engineering accreditation expired on March 26, 2020, while Electronics Engineering and Mechanical Engineering expired on April 20, 2022.

“In Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma, Edo, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Electronics Engineering accreditation expired Nov.12, 2020.”

The COREN president further said that the University of Calabar in Cross Rivers and Technical University Ibadan in Oyo state are also running engineering programmes without approval.

Abubakar noted that the University of Calabar is currently running engineering programmes up to 300 Level without resource verification or pre-accreditation by COREN.

He added that the Technical University Ibadan was also running programmes up to 500 Level without resource verification or pre-accreditation by COREN.

He said that COREN had written officially to the universities to ensure the accreditation of the programmes, but that there was no positive response from them.

“Engineering accreditation committee shall impose either a withdrawal of accreditation or non-recognition of graduates of such programmes for registration as engineering practitioners,” Abubakar said.

“COREN is hereby, notifying the affected universities to rectify the abnormalities and get the programmes accredited before the commencement of the next academic session.

“Failure to rectify this, their non-accreditation status will result in blacklisting them as non-accredited institutions whose graduates of engineering programmes will not be recognised for registration as engineering practitioners.”

Abubakar reminded engineering practitioners to obtain their practice licence for 2023 to comply with the law regulating engineering practice in Nigeria.