By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved five new additional academic programmes for the Precious Cornerstone University (PCU), Ibadan, the Oyo state capital
According to NUC in a letter signed by its Director of Planning,Dr Noel Saliu, on behalf of the Executive Secretary, Professor Abubakar Rasheed,dated 8th November, 2021, the approval of the five new courses for the university, came on the heels of the Resource Assessment visit carried out in August, this year.
NUC in the letter with reference number: NUC/AP/P72/Vol1/05 and addressed to the Vice Chancellor, PCU, Professor Kola Oloke, “the new courses approved to be at degree level and full time, include Cyber Security, Software Engineering, Procurement Management, Mass Communication and International Relations.”
Others are Accounting, Actuarial Science, Business Administration, Banking and Finance, Marketing and Economics.
The Commission in the letter stressed that the approved courses which shall commence in the university at the current academic session, shall be run on full-time basis, urging the PCU Management to “provide adequate human and material resources for the development and growth of the approved programmes”
 NUC maintained that the approved courses which shall commence in the university at the current academic session, shall be run on full-time basis, urging the PCU Management to “provide adequate human and material resources for the development and growth of the approved programmes”
Reacting to the approval, the University’s Vice Chancellor Professor Kola Oloke described the news as cheering, and that efforts would always be geared towards making the institution a world class university.
It will be recalled that the University has already been granted full operational licence by the Federal Government through the NUC, is a faith-based institution owned by The Sword of the Spirit Ministries under the leadership of Bishop Francis Wale Oke.
The University currently runs twelve courses under the Faculties of Pure and Applied Sciences as well as Social and Management Sciences which include Microbiology, Biochemistry, Industrial Chemistry, Industrial Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics with Electronics.
