The alumni of the Lead City University Faculty of Law have described as misleading a report credited to the Council of Legal Education suspending the university’s Law Faculty and eight others.
A statement, signed by the concerned alumni, indicated that the university’s Faculty of Law had since been fully accreditated by the National Universities Commission (NUC) to run all its academic programmes notably the LLB, LLM and Ph.D Laws.
It stated that the Council for Legal Education had approved and accredited its Law programme in a joint visitation with NUC, saying that the team of scholars and professionals that appraised the facilities and human resources of the Faculty from the Council of Legal Education was led by Professor Isah Hayatou Ciroma, SAN, thereby qualifying its graduates to proceed to the Law School.
It added that the faculty presented a purpose built 2-floor Faculty Building, a 735 seaters Lecture Hub and large classrooms of various sizes comprising of the following: Well-equipped Law Library with both physical and on-line resources; Moot Court well furnished with padded seats for 250 participants, Judges Chamber (En- suite); Faculty Board Room with capacity for 100 people; Well Furnished and fully air-conditioned offices for Lecturers, Administrators and Law Student Association (LSA), office and Common room, Law Clinic and Multi Door Court; Staffing is adequate across all cadres with retiring eminent Jurists in the Faculty.”
The statement acknowledged that the Nigerian Law School admits graduates far above the so-called admission quota for good reasons which often include delays in reviewing applications for increase in quota coming from the numerous institutions offering the Law programme.
“There is some respite simply because It is not every Law graduate that aspires for immediate transition to the Law School. While awaiting the promised review of its initial quota of 50 the Faculty has , with the gracious acquiescence of the Director General of the Law school Professor Isah Hayatou Ciroma enabled the admission of additional numbers into the Law School as students should not suffer unduly while the usually long review processes and protocols are ongoing.
“Indeed, in the list for 2023 admissions, 30 of the candidates were added to the Dean’s list from the Faculty by the DG himself. This has been the trend over the years. We must commend the assistance of the DG in helping the University to accommodate demands of those willing to fulfill their dreams to study Law.”
The alumni also expressed understanding on the recent visitation to the Faculty by the CLE team led by the Prof Ciroma wherein the team pronounced positively on the state of the facilities met at the Faculty.
“But a clearly wrong report was placed before the meeting of the Council. It was a cut and paste resolution which did not reflect the true state of affairs in our First Class institution.
“Furthermore, the report suppressed the highly relevant intervention of the Presidency on the matter- a flagrant disrespect to the High office of the Honourable Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation,” it stated.
The statement added, “Accordingly, we urge the authorities of Lead City University to diligently appeal the announced decision while we urge the esteemed CLE to immediately grant this and other institutions their right to fair hearing before making public pronouncements that may unduly be damaging to the integrity of some of these great institutions and their alumni.”
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