Dr. Mrs. Funmilayo Jumoke Morebise graduated with a Bachelor degree in Pharmacy (B. Pharm,) with distinction from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife in 1998 and later obtained a Master and PhD in Public Health, 2008 and 2018 respectively, from the University of Ilorin.

She joined the services of the National Universities Commission in January 2010 on transfer of Service from the Health and Human Services Secretariat, Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) as Principal Academic Standards Officer, in the then Department of Academic Standards (DAS) now Directorate of Academic Planning (DAP). While in the Academic Standards Department, she gained vast experience, traversing the various academic activities of the department and units.

While in the then Academic Standards Department her responsibilities included the design and planning of undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum of Nigerian Universities, resource verification and accreditation activities.

To her credit, she was responsible for ensuring the arrangement of all undergraduate and postgraduate programmes of all the disciplines in the Nigerian University System (NUS) and also used her experience to redesign and develop the new B.Pharm programme, currently in use in Nigerian universities.

Dr. Morebise was promoted to Assistant Chief Academic Standards Officer in January 2013 from where she also rose steadily to become a Deputy Director in January 2020. She was then posted to the Directorate of Research, Innovations and Information Technology (DRIIT) as Head of Research Planning and Administration.

In the course of her duties in DRIIT, she was in charge of the coordination and administration of research activities in the Department as well as liaising with the universities on their research programmes.

Following her dedication and loyalty to the course of various assignments and the experience she garnered, She was at some point deployed to the Directorate of Executive Secretary’s Office (DESO), where she was assigned as Deputy Director in charge of the administration of the Office of the Deputy Executive Secretary (DES) Administration between (Jan and July, 2021) and was later posted back to DRIIT in July 2021 where she continued to serve as Head of Research Planning and Administration.

Following a commission-wide posting of Deputy Directors in 2023, she was moved again to the Directorate of Academic Planning (DAP) as Head of Resource and Strategic Planning Division , a duty she discharged quite creditably.

While in the Directorate of Academic Planning, Dr. Morebise also served as a representative of NUC at the National Council on Education, the highest decision making body on education in Nigeria at the reference, plenary, technical and ministerial meetings.

She also held many ad-hoc positions in the course of her public service career, including Secretary, Federal Government’s Visitation Panel to French Language Village, Badagry, in 2021.

Her last position was as Deputy Director, Resource and Strategic Planning Division of the Directorate of Academic Planning, which she has occupied since 2023, until her elevation as Acting Director, Directorate of Open, Distance and e-Learning (DODeL)on the 2nd of May, 2024, position she held in Acting Capacity until she became the substantive Director on the 31st of December, 2025.

The Director Open, Distance and e-Learning, Dr. Moberise, who hails from Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State, is also a consultant Pharmacist and Fellow of the West Africa Post-graduate College of Pharmacists (WAPCP) where she obtained her fellowship in social and administrative pharmacy with special award, She is currently a fellow of Africa Institute of Public Health Professionals (FAIPH).

She is a very energetic and team player, problem solver and resource mobiliser as well as lover of youths, women and children. She has presented papers and attended conferences, both internationally and locally.

Her ability to multi-task, work with different people and drive result was recognised by the Osun State, where she was recognised amongst her fellow central facilitators in 2014. She is married with children.
She joined NUC as a principal Academic Standards Officer in January 2010.

She worked in various divisions of the Directorate which include, Undergraduate Planning, Undergraduate and Postgraduate Curriculum Development and Planning; and Qualification Framework and Verification Divisions till 2020 when she became a Deputy Director. She served as Deputy Director Research Planning &Administration under DRIIT and DD, DES- Admin in DESO through year 2020 to July 2023 when she was posted to back to Directorate of Academic Planning as DD, Resource and Strategic Planning until as elevation to Ag. Director, Directorate of Open Distance and E-learning (DODeL). She formally assumed the substantive position of Director in January 2026.

Dr Morebise also has a vast experience in the public health sector. She worked extensively with major health and educational Organisations and ministries in Nigeria. She started her career as a Hospital Pharmacist Health and Human Services Secretariat of FCTA, Abuja. She also served at the National Programme on Immunization (NPI) as an independent monitor, national supervisor and central facilitator during the National Immunization Days (NIDs), sub-National Immunization Days (sNIDs) and measles campaigns in Katsina, Kano, Niger and Osun States respectively in collaboration with World Health Organization (WHO)/UNICEF and other partners. She was recognised as a distinguished central facilitator in Osun State in year 2006.

She is very energetic and a team player. She is a problem solver and resource mobiliser. Her ability to multitask, work with different people and drive result was recognised by the Osun State, where she was recognised amongst her fellow central facilitators in 2014.  She is a lover of youths, women and children. She has presented papers and attended conferences both internationally and locally. She is married with children.

In pursuance of the vision and mission of the Directorate of Open Distance and e-Learning, the broad mandates of the Directorate includes to:

• Promote and coordinate the development of quality Open Distance & e-Learning (ODeL), Open Educational Resources (OER) and Trans-National Education (TNE) in order to increase access and ensure equity in the provision of university education in Nigeria;
• Establish and review periodically the regulatory frameworks for Open Distance and e-Learning (ODeL) )practice and Open Educational Resources (OER) use as well as provision of Trans-National Education (TNE) in the Nigerian University System;
• Advise the Federal Government of Nigeria on the desirability and conditions for the establishment of Open Distance and e-Learning and Open Educational Resources (OER) and provision of Trans-National Education (TNE) in Nigeria within the framework of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to which Nigeria is a signatory;
• Facilitate and strengthen the development of institutional and professional capacity for sustainable Open Distance and e-Learning mode, Open Educational Resources (OER) adoption and optimization of Trans-National Educational opportunities in Nigerian University System;
• Mainstream and coordinate the orderly delivery of degree programmes via the Open Distance and e-Learning mode in the NUS; and
• Forge and sustain partnership and collaborations with appropriate institutions in the public and private sectors within and outside Nigeria to enable Nigeria derive maximum benefit from the Open Distance and e-Learning, Open Educational Resources (OER) and Trans-National Education model.
• Liaise and collaborate with appropriate quality assurance agencies in exporting countries to ensure parity of standard, reciprocity and mutual recognition of qualification between Nigeria and home countries of foreign educational providers;
• Liaise and collaborate with the quality assurance agencies of other countries to develop a database of recognized universities and their accredited qualifications to obviate the threat posed by degree and accreditation mills;
• Forge and sustain partnerships and collaborations with appropriate institutions in the public and private sectors within and outside Nigeria, to enable Nigeria derive maximum benefit from Transnational Education   as an additional means of enhancing access;
• Forge and sustain partnerships and collaborations with appropriate institutions in the public and private sectors within and outside Nigeria, to Promote the internationalization of university education;
• Be a focal point on behalf of the Commission for engendering the achievement of harmonization, mutual recognition of degrees, diplomas and other qualifications among countries on the African continent, towards a viable African credit transfer system to facilitate student and staff mobility across borders on the continent; and
• Undertake any other activities that will facilitate the optimization of Transnational educational opportunities in fulfilling the objectives of enhancing access to quality university education in Nigeria.
• Promote, popularize and coordinate, the deployment of E-learning tools in the delivery of university education in Nigeria;
• Set and regulate the standard of e-learning practice in the Nigerian university system (NUS);
• Facilitate and strengthen the development of institutional and professional capacity in the NUS for sustainable optimization and deployment of E-teaching opportunities in Nigerian universities;
• Forge and sustain partnerships and collaborations with appropriate institutions in the public and private sectors within and outside Nigeria, to enable Nigeria derive maximum benefit from E-learning in the provision of quality university education in the NUS

Division is headed by Dr. Bisong Nte Joseph (Deputy Director)

Units

1. Open Universities Unit
2. Dual Mode Universities Unit

Division is headed by Mr. Kolade Ayeni (Deputy Director)

Units

1. Cross Border Collaboration Unit
2. Transnational Qualification, Evaluation & Recognition Unit

Division is headed by Dr. Gabriel Hadu Ligari (Deputy Director)

Units

1. Content Development Unit
2. Learning Infrastructure Unit

Division is headed by Mrs. Funke Sule (Deputy Director)

Units

1. OER Repositories Section; and
2. Resource Attribution Section.

GUIDELINES FOR OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES

GUIDELINES FOR TRANSNATIONAL EDUCATION IN NIGERIA