Senate approves six additional law schools

By Muhammad Umar Shehu

The Senate has on Tuesday passed a bill to establish six additional law schools across Nigeria.

Our Corresspondent gathered that the bill was passed after due consideration of a report presented by the Senate committee on judiciary, Human rights and Legal matters chaired by Senator Opeyemi Bamidele.

The existing law schools campuses are located in Lagos, Abuja, Yola, Kano, Enugu and port-hacourt.

The additional law campuses approved are, Kabba law school campus, Kogi, Maiduguri Law school campus, Borno, Argungu law school campus, Kebbi, Okeja law school campus, Anambra, Orogun law school campus, Delta, Ilawe law school campus, Ekiti, and Jos law school campus in Plateau state.

Bamidele in his presentation said the committee observed that in view of the increase in number of law graduates from Nigeria and foreign universities coupled with the backlog that existed over the years, this legislative intervention measure was not only apt and timely but paramount.

According to him, the universities are over-stretched with inadequate infrastructure to accommodate thousands of law students from the universities.

The Senate therefore urged the federal government to provide adequate resources for the funding of the infrastructural needs of the law school campuses.