Law school rejects graduates from Benin Republic university Law school rejects graduates from Benin Republic university
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The Council of Legal Education has maintained its ban on Law graduates from Houdegbe North American University, Cotonou, the Benin Republic from being admitted into the Nigerian Law School.
A statement by the council secretary, Elizabeth Max-Uba, made available to newsmen on Friday said, the council said after its meeting to consider the appeals of the affected graduates on November 25, 2020, it resolved to sustain the ban imposed in 2015.
According to the council, the university is domiciled in Civil Law jurisdiction yet its law faculty was offering Common Law courses only, and that the subjects of the programme were specifically designated Nigerian.
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CLE Secretary, Elizabeth Max-Uba, made this known in a statement on Friday.
Max-Uba noted that the university is domiciled in a Civil Law jurisdiction yet its law faculty was offering Common Law courses only.
The official said students were 100% Nigerians and the language of instruction was English, whereas French is the lingua franca of Benin Republic.
CLE added that lecturers were Nigerians drawn from faculties of law in the South-West region of Nigeria teaching there on a part-time basis.
It cited “Information” which indicated that “the university had no approval from the regulatory authority in that country to run a law programme until 2016, after the decision was taken by the Council to suspend admission of its graduates to the Nigerian Law School”.