Current legal students at Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, have said that they are unaffected by the recent one-year prohibition on admittance to KWASU’s law school.
This was revealed Thursday in Ilorin in a statement by Dr. Saeedat Aliyu, Acting Director, University Relations.
The prohibition was imposed, according to Dr. Aliyu, since the Council for Legal Education (CLE) decided to allow KWASU to start a law program in 2018 with just the National Universities Commission’s (NUC) consent.
According to her, KWASU just received complete accreditation from the CLE and the NUC to offer two undergraduate law programs: Common Law and Common and Islamic Law.
The management wants to clarify that students enrolled in programs at the University’s Faculty of Law are not impacted in any way by the one-year restriction.
KWASU will abide by the CLE consequences by refusing admission to the two law schools in the upcoming 2025–2026 admissions session since it holds all regulatory institutions in the highest regard.
Dr. Aliyu stated that since all of KWASU’s programs have the necessary accreditations, prospective students may apply to other equally outstanding programs the university offers.
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) informed KWASU and seven other universities on Wednesday that it would no longer be accepting applications for admission to the law program, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
For the 2025–2026 academic year, the CLE reportedly suspended the Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) program at the impacted colleges.
Consequently, JAMB said that it would not grant admission to any applicants wishing to enroll in the Law program at the aforementioned universities for the 2025–2026 academic year.
