The FG and the 36 State government in Nigeria have been advised to step up efforts at ensuring proper funding of legal education in Nigeria in order to address the issue of mass failure in the law school.
The Vice-chancellor of of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Prof. Saburi Adesanya and the Dean, faculty of law of the university, Olusesan Oliyide while speaking at the inauguration of the concerned Law League of the faculty said all hands must be on the deck to reposition the Nigeria Law school.
Speaking on the state of legal Education in Nigeria during the inauguration of the concerned Law League of the faculty of Law, Olabisi Onabanjo University, the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Saburi Adesanya stated that all hands must be on the deck to address the dwindling fortune of legal education in Nigeria.
He stated that the issue of mass failure in the Law School has it origin from the poor foundation at various faculties of law at most university in the country adding that, though various state governments are doing their best but such efforts was not enough.
Prof. Adesanya said as citadel of knowledge, universities should not be satisfy with what has attained or archived but must keep improving and do things in an unusual ways.
He challenged authorities of various faculties of Law in the Nigerian University not to rest on their oars but must strive to understand the dynamics of the illegal profession and pass across the same to the up coming legal practitioners saying by so doing competent hands would be transferred to the Nigeria Law school for final preparation.
He commended the Ogun state government for repositioning the state owned Olabisi Onabanjo University in the last three and half years stressing that more government presence and assistance is being needed, especially at the faculty of Law of the institution.
In his remark, the Dean faculty of Law of the University, Prof. Olusesan Oliyide equally stressed the need for the collaborative efforts towards enhancing the quality of legal education in Nigeria.
He appealed to the practitioners and other stakeholders to rise up to the challenges facing legal profession in Nigeria adding that, the appropriate area to tackle the challenges is by imbibing sound moral and doctrine of the profession in the upcoming lawyer, through sound education.
Other speakers at the event commended the authorities of the Olabisi Onabanjo University and the leadership of the faculty of law for keeping up the pace of legal education in the institution.
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