By Ayodele Oni
For violating its admission Quota, the Nigerian Law School has imposed a five-year ban on the Faculty of Law at Baze University, Abuja.
Baze University is owned by the Labour Party’s Vice Presidential Candidate in the 2023 Presidential Election, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed.
The Council of Legal Education explained that the institution has been consistently exceeding its approved admission quota for years.
The decision was announced by Aderonke Osho, the Acting Secretary and Director of Administration of the Nigerian Law School, following the findings of the Council of Legal Education.
The Council’s quarterly meeting on November 23, 2023, chaired by Chief Emeka Ngige, SAN, OFR, considered a report from the Accreditation panel to Baze University’s Law Faculty.
The Panel, led by Prof Isa Hayatu Chiroma, SAN, Director-General of the Nigerian Law School, discovered that Baze University has repeatedly violated its approved admission quota of 50 students per session.
As a result, the Law Faculty currently faces a backlog of over 347 Law students awaiting admission to the Nigerian Law School.
Since 2017, Baze University has admitted more than 750 law students, a number that would typically span a 15-year period based on the approved quota.
The University also runs a three-year LL.B programme for some UTME candidates without the necessary approvals from the National Universities Commission (NUC), Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), and the Council of Legal Education.
The Council recommended an imposition of a moratorium on the admission of law students to the Faculty of Law, Baze University, Abuja, with immediate effect.
The moratorium will last for a period of five years initially, and may be renewed if satisfactory actions are not taken to address the situation.
The Council will utilize this five-year period to address the backlog of Law students admitted by Baze University in excess of its admission quota, while follow-up visits will be conducted to the University to assess the measures taken to rectify the observed anomalies during the accreditation visit.
The NUC, JAMB, parents, guardians, prospective applicants, and the public are advised to take note of the status of Baze University Abuja and its Faculty of Law.
A number of high profile accomplished Nigerians had in recent years passed out from the Law Faculty of Baze University. They include, among many others, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah and a former Minister for Aviation, Osita Chidoka.
