Nigeria: Obasanjo – Open Varsity Graduates Should Attend Law School

África/Nigeria/18 Septiembre 2016/Fuente: /Autor:Misbahu Bashir

Resumen: El ex presidente Olusegun Obasanjo ha pedido al gobierno federal revisar la decisión del Consejo de Educación Legal (CLE) de detener los licenciados en derecho de la Universidad Nacional Abierta de Nigeria para  ser admitido en la Escuela de Derecho de Nigeria.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on the federal government to review the decision of the Council of Legal Education (CLE) stopping law graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) from being admitted into the Nigerian Law School.

Obasanjo made the remarks when the Vice-Chancellor of NOUN, Professor Abdalla Uba Adamu, visit him in his house in Abeokuta, Ogun State, the varsity’s spokesman, Ibrahim Sheme said in a statement yesterday.

The former president, who last year graduated with a degree in Theology from NOUN, said there was every reason to believe that graduates from the institution should attend the law school.

«When they told me about law people, I said who are the early lawyers? They sat at home and read and they ate their dinner… And then they qualified. We know, we were there with most of them in the 1950s,» he said.

He described the recent appointment of Prof Adamu’s as VC as putting a «square peg in a square hole.»

He thanked the NOUN management for naming the university’s newly established Good Governance and Development Research Centre after him.

He also accepted NOUN’s invitation to present a lecture on the topic, «Leadership and Challenges of Development in Nigeria: the Way Forward» as part of the activities to mark his birthday in March.

In his remarks, the vice-chancellor said some of the steps he took in developing the university system included the renaming of schools into faculties and introducing the election of deans and heads of department, as innovative.

Fuente de la noticia: http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/obasanjo-open-varsity-graduates-should-attend-law-school/162704.html

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