Section 1: Incorporation and objects of the National Open University As Amended by Section 2 of the National Open University (Amendment) Statute, 2018

(1)
There is hereby established a university of Nigeria to be known as the National Open University of Nigeria, which shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal.
(2) The University may sue or be sued in its corporate name.
(3)
The objects of the University shall be to-
(a)
provide persons, without distinction of race, creed, gender, age or political conviction, the opportunity for liberalised access to higher education and lifelong learning;
(b)
promote educational opportunity, social justice and propagate the ideals of quality education that is open and available to persons at a conducive environment and at their pace of learning, using new and improved communication technologies, methods and ideas aimed at providing learning opportunuties that meet the lifelong needs of individuals;
(c)
encourage the preservation of learning throughout Nigeria and beyond by means of instructions delivered through a muliti-model system comprising of a variety of relevant and cost effective media and technologies including facilitation print, audio, video, television, computer-mediated learning, VCD, DVD, CD-ROM, Blue Ray and the Internet wb-based instruction, taking cognisance of the local environment;
(d)
provide full-time studying and teaching, delivered through the open and distance learning system, taking into cognisance the peculiarities of an open and distance learning university;
(e)
provide full-time online courses leading to undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications within the existing framework of university regulatory provisions;
(f) complement and supplement the delivery of instructions, with supported open and distance learning through the provision of seminars, special clinics, professional internship and facilitation of robust counselling services organised through an integrated network of study centres;
(g) provide programmes and courses of instruction through instructional materials design principles and other facilities that meet international standards that can be benchmarked through necessary processes of quality assurance and accreditation;
(h) ensure that facilities provided for the University are made available on proper terms and conditions to persons that are equipped to benefit from such facilities, especially persons who may not by nature of their special circumstances, be in a position to enroll for residential or conventional face to face university education;
(i) enhance the activities of the university through the use of study centres facilities and encourage communal participation and ownership of eduacation by promoting the acquisition of technological literacy nationwide;
(j) promote scholarship and encourage the carrying out of research activities in all fields of learning and related activities, giving priority to open and distance learning activities;
(k) relate its activities to the social, cultural and economic needs of the people of Nigeria; and
(l) undertake such other activities that can be associated with a university of the highest standard and repute.