{"id":1834,"date":"2022-05-10T10:21:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T10:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2022-05-10T10:21:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T10:21:50","slug":"nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"NUC Withdraws Accreditation for ABSU School of Medicine."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-vivid-purple-background-color has-background\">The Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) has withdrawn the accreditation given to Abia State University school of medical sciences for the study of medicine and surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NUC withdrew the approval due to a track record of inadequacies at the\u00a0Abia State University Teaching Hospital, Aba (ABSUTH).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a statement by the Chairman of Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Abia State chapter, Dr. Chimezie Okwuonu, the\u00a0School can no longer admit new students into its school of Medicine and Surgery as a result of this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, Mr. Okwuonu\u00a0described the withdrawal of the accerditation by NUC as disturbing, and blamed it on the state government\u00a0saying that ABSUTH has been plagued by interrupted operations due to industrial actions by the workers over inconsistent payment of salaries. He reiterated that as of\u00a0the end of April 2022, the staff of ABSUTH are been owed 25 months of salary arrears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) has withdrawn the accreditation given to Abia State University school of medical sciences for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NUC Withdraws Accreditation for ABSU School of Medicine. - PressPayNg Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NUC Withdraws Accreditation for ABSU School of Medicine. - PressPayNg Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) has withdrawn the accreditation given to Abia State University school of medical sciences for the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"PressPayNg Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-10T10:21:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-05-10T10:21:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ABSU-logo.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"360\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"140\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"press_admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"press_admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"press_admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/d190f9f0919168cffa93a7e976d3057e\"},\"headline\":\"NUC Withdraws Accreditation for ABSU School of Medicine.\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-10T10:21:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-10T10:21:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":152,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/03\\\/ABSU-logo.png\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\\\/\",\"name\":\"NUC Withdraws Accreditation for ABSU School of Medicine. - PressPayNg Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/03\\\/ABSU-logo.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-10T10:21:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-10T10:21:50+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/03\\\/ABSU-logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/03\\\/ABSU-logo.png\",\"width\":360,\"height\":140},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"NUC Withdraws Accreditation for ABSU School of Medicine.\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"PressPayNg Blog\",\"description\":\"News and Updates From PressPayNg\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"PressPayNg Blog\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/cropped-logo-dark.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/cropped-logo-dark.png\",\"width\":468,\"height\":117,\"caption\":\"PressPayNg Blog\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/d190f9f0919168cffa93a7e976d3057e\",\"name\":\"press_admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/07\\\/PressPayNg-pic-150x150.jpeg\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/07\\\/PressPayNg-pic-150x150.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/07\\\/PressPayNg-pic-150x150.jpeg\",\"caption\":\"press_admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/blog-api\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/presspay.ng\\\/news\\\/author\\\/press_admin\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"NUC Withdraws Accreditation for ABSU School of Medicine. - PressPayNg Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"NUC Withdraws Accreditation for ABSU School of Medicine. - PressPayNg Blog","og_description":"The Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) has withdrawn the accreditation given to Abia State University school of medical sciences for the","og_url":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\/","og_site_name":"PressPayNg Blog","article_published_time":"2022-05-10T10:21:47+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-05-10T10:21:50+00:00","og_image":[{"width":360,"height":140,"url":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ABSU-logo.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"press_admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"press_admin","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\/"},"author":{"name":"press_admin","@id":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d190f9f0919168cffa93a7e976d3057e"},"headline":"NUC Withdraws Accreditation for ABSU School of Medicine.","datePublished":"2022-05-10T10:21:47+00:00","dateModified":"2022-05-10T10:21:50+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\/"},"wordCount":152,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ABSU-logo.png","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\/","url":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\/","name":"NUC Withdraws Accreditation for ABSU School of Medicine. - PressPayNg Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ABSU-logo.png","datePublished":"2022-05-10T10:21:47+00:00","dateModified":"2022-05-10T10:21:50+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ABSU-logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ABSU-logo.png","width":360,"height":140},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/nuc-withdraws-accreditation-for-absu-school-of-medicine\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"NUC Withdraws Accreditation for ABSU School of Medicine."}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/","name":"PressPayNg Blog","description":"News and Updates From PressPayNg","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/#organization","name":"PressPayNg Blog","url":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cropped-logo-dark.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cropped-logo-dark.png","width":468,"height":117,"caption":"PressPayNg Blog"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d190f9f0919168cffa93a7e976d3057e","name":"press_admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/PressPayNg-pic-150x150.jpeg","url":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/PressPayNg-pic-150x150.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/PressPayNg-pic-150x150.jpeg","caption":"press_admin"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/presspay.ng\/blog-api"],"url":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/author\/press_admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1836,"href":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions\/1836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}