{"id":153240,"date":"2019-09-18T10:46:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T09:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=153240"},"modified":"2019-09-18T10:48:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T09:48:26","slug":"abu-accreditation-impasse-nursing-council-registrar-gives-new-details-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=153240","title":{"rendered":"ABU accreditation Impasse: Nursing Council Registrar gives new details, updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ABU-accreditation-Impasse-Nursing-Council-Registrar-Faruk-Umar-gives-new-details-updates.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Secretary-General\/Registrar of Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, NMCN, Faruk Umar Abubakar, has said that the Council was ready to restore the accreditation of Ahmadu Bello University\u2019s School of Nursing Sciences which was withdrawn in May this year.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with DAILY POST in Abuja on Tuesday, he said the development followed the intervention of the House of Representatives and compliance by the school authority.<\/p>\n<p>He said, NMCN is a regulatory body which ensures standard of Nursing Sciences education in the nation\u2019s tertiary institutions, hence, when the Ahmadu Bello University failed to comply with the Council\u2019s laws, despite warning by the Council, its accreditation was withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>He explained\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole thing is centred on Ahmadu Bello University\u2019s laws which made them to appoint a non-registered member of Nigeria\u2019s Nursing and Midwifery Council in the last eight years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe appointment of Hayat Gommaa, an Egyptian who is not a registered member of the Council by ABU in the last eight years made us to withdraw accreditation after series of letters to the School authority on the implications of their action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Council wrote ABU to direct this woman to forward her credentials for us to ensure that her certificates and proficiency is in line with our expectations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, the National Assembly has intervened and the ABU on their part has appointed a qualified person who is a registered member of NMCN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn our own part, we are going to restore their accreditation so that normal academic activities can continue. This is after we have gotten a letter from ABU informing us officially that another qualified person has been appointed, we will restore their accreditation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have already pronounced that they have appointed a registered nurse who is also a Nigerian. We don\u2019t have problems with that, but one must be qualified and a registered member of the Council.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary-General\/Registrar further stressed that graduates of Ahmadu Bello University with Bachelors of Nursing Sciences (BNSc) in the last eight years when the crisis lingered have been inducted into the council.<\/p>\n<p>He said, it wasn\u2019t their fault and the NMCN wouldn\u2019t allow them to suffer, hence, they were inducted, revealing that the last batch of Nursing graduates would be inducted in November preparatory for their internship.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary-General\/Registrar of Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, NMCN, Faruk Umar Abubakar, has said that the Council was ready to restore the accreditation of Ahmadu Bello University\u2019s School of Nursing Sciences which was withdrawn in May this year. In an exclusive interview with DAILY POST in Abuja on Tuesday, he said the development followed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2828,3],"tags":[11161,2054,13261,13262],"class_list":["post-153240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-abu-zaria","tag-education","tag-faruk-umar","tag-nursing-and-midwifery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}