Onwuzulike was issued the Certificates of Post Graduate Diploma and Masters of Science degrees in Information Technology.
NOUN Registrar, Mr Felix Edoka, while presenting the certificates at the Awka Correctional Centre, said the programme was targeted at impacting lives, including providing education to the inmates.
The Registrar, represented by the Deputy Registrar, Academics, Mr Oladipo Ajayi, commended the inmate for achieving the feat despite his peculiar environment.
He urged other inmates to take advantage of the programme to become educated.
Also speaking, Director, NOUN, Awka Centre, Professor Scholastica Ezeribe, said the programme was a clear demonstration of the importance the institution attaches to the education of inmates.
She said the inmate defended the certificates online under strict supervision, which shows that distance and space are not barrier to interested students of the institution.
She explained that they would have given him the certificates with his colleagues during the convocation in Abuja, but could not because of his peculiar situation, so they had to bring the two-in-one certificate to him.
In his remarks, the Controller, Awka Correctional Centre, Mr Patrick Chukwuemeka, said that the scheme was initiated for the educational development and Skill empowerment of inmates.
He thanked the programme facilitators for their assistance to the graduate, appealing to other inmates to emulate Onwuzulike to upgrade themselves.
According to him, the Correctional Centre is not only for confinement, but opportunities for the inmates to upgrade themselves academically as well as learn skills that will make them better persons after their jail term.
Responding, the graduate, Onwuzulike, thanked the centre and NOUN for the opportunity given to him to upgrade himself academically.
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