A new set of 1,500 Nigerian students ousted by the Russian invasion in Ukraine is set to resume their studies at the Igbinedion University, Okada in Edo State by September 2022.
This came as a result of a partnership agreement signed by the Ivano Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas with the management of the Igbinedion University.
According to a statement by the representative of the Ukrainian University in Nigeria, Cliff Ogbede, the cooperation was made under the National Universities Commission trans-educational guidelines.
Providing further details, Ogbede noted that the students were about 1,500 and would resume by September.
The statement reads: “The students are about 1,500 and they will be back by September.
“In their quest to return students who were displaced by the war in Ukraine to class, another top-rated Ukrainian academic institution—Ivano Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas—has equally signed a cooperation agreement with the Igbinedion University, Okada.
“This cooperation will enable their students who were displaced by the war in Ukraine to resume classroom lectures at the Igbinedion University campus on a joint educational program, under the Nigerian National Universities Commission Transnational Educational Guidelines.
“The joint Transnational Educational program will enable the undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Ukrainian Ivano Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas to continue their academic program uninterrupted in addition to the existing distance learning mode, as a similar model is applied in particular for the organization of academic cooperation with universities in Turkey and some other countries.”
