He revealed this at the presentation of the performance of the candidates at the October 2023 Call to Bar ceremony
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The development was confirmed in a statement by the Special Assistant on Media to Wike, Kelvin Ebri, on Tuesday.
An eye witness who narrated the story to our correspondent said the fire, suspected to have been caused by an electrical fault, started at 10 pm from the first floor of the 5-story building hostel housing about 1500 law graduates on the Lagos campus.
The newly approved law schools, in addition to the seven existing ones, bring the total number of law schools in the country to 13, excluding that of the Federal Capital Territory.
Wike stated this when members of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, led by its chairman, Senator Michael Opeyemi Bamidele, paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House in Port Harcourt.
The bill titled, ‘A bill for an Act to amend the Legal Education (Consolidation etc.) Act by establishing the campuses for the Nigerian Law School, and for other related matters’ was sponsored by Senator Smart Adeyemi.
The Director General of the Nigerian Law School, Prof. Isa Ciroma, disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja.
The director-general of the school, Professor Isa Ciroma, SAN, made this known on Tuesday in Abuja while presenting the new wigs to the Body of Benchers at the 2020 Call to the Bar ceremony.
A statement by the Executive Secretary of the board, Malam Hassan Rilwan, revealed this on Tuesday.
The council made this known in a statement signed by the Director-General of the School, Prof. Isa Chiroma, on Sunday in Abuja.
This was contained in the Auditor General report for 2015, which is in the possession of the Senate Panel on Public Account.
Former Director-General of the Nigeria Law School, Dr. Kole Abayomi, has died in the United Kingdom after contracting Coronavirus Disease.
The National Open University of Nigeria says It is still awaiting response from the Council of Legal Education as regards admitting NOUN graduates into the Nigerian Law School.
The Vice Chancellor of NOUN, Prof. Abdalla Adamu, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos
The Lagos State Government says it has placed the 63 people who had direct contact with the index Lassa fever case under surveillance.
The Director-General of the school, Prof. Isa Ciroma, in his address at the call to bar ceremony in Bwari, said that the figure comprised three candidates from the previous bar final examinations.
The Oyo State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, has approved the sum of N500,000 as bursary to each of the 120 Oyo State indigenes in the Nigerian Law School.
The Nigerian Law School on Tuesday in Abuja called to the Nigerian Bar a total of 866 graduates of the school.
Prof. Isa Ciroma, Director-General of the school, in his address at the ceremony, said that 850 of the candidates were successful after the April 2019 Bar Final Examinations while 16 candidates were from previous Bar Final Examinations.
The Council of Legal Education has said that 850 students of the Nigerian Law School passed the Bar Final Resit Examinations conducted in April.
In 2017, a Nigerian Law School graduate by the name Amasa Firdausi was refused her call to bar for failing to remove her hijab. Her action and the Law School’s response generated intense debate and controversy at the time, especially on the internet, so much so that she boasted that her defiance was to “challenge the status quo”.
Nigerian Law School hijab heroine, Firdaus Amasa, will join other prominent Muslim professional women to address the Muslim girls of the International School Ibadan on Sunday in the Oyo State capital.