The Abuja-based Baze University said to be owned by the running mate of Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Yusuf Baba-Ahmed, has been barred by the Council of Legal Education (CLE) from further admitting students into its Law Faculty for the next five years.
The decision by the CLE, it was learnt, was informed by the university’s alleged consistent abuse of its admission quota for Law students.
The Acting Secretary and Director of Administration of the Nigerian Law School, Aderonke Osho said, in a statement, that Baze University was banned for consistently violating its admission quota of 50 students per session as approved by the CLE.
The Chairman of the CLE, Chief Emeka Ngige (SAN) also confirmed the development when contacted on Saturday by The Nation.
Osho, in the statement, added that the ban resulted from the findings of the CLE, to the effect that the university’s Law Faculty currently has a backlog of over 347 law students waiting to be admitted into the Nigerian Law School.
She said the university runs a three (3)-year LL.B programme for some UTME candidates without the approval of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and CLE.
