Obasanjo to pick new law school DG
By Gbolahan Gbadamosi,
Asst. Judicial Editor
THE nation will still have to wait for sometime before the sixth directors general of the 40-year old Nigerian Law School will be named.
The waiting game was a result of the decision of the Council of Legal Education yesterday in Abuja, which recommended all the three candidates namely, Dr. Kole Abayomi, Dr. Tahir Mamman and Mr. Ernest Ojukwu, an associate professor to President Olusegun Obasanjo for approval.
The three candidates are the current deputy directors general, in Lagos (Abayomi), Kano (Mamman) and Enugu Ojukwu .
The incumbent director-general, Chief John Kayode Jegede (SAN) who came on board in 1995 will retire in September.
The Guardian learnt that the meeting chaired by Justice Monronkeji Omotayo Onalaja decided to recommend the three of them to Obasanjo through the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Chief Akinlolu Olujimi (SAN).
Besides, the recommendation of a definite tenure for the new school's helsman of five years was rejected by the council.
The council's Appointment and Promotion Committee headed by the President, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Chief Wole OlanipekunSAN met and recommended the three candidates to the council.
Source close to the council also said that the names of the candidates were arranged in order of their performance before Olanipekun panel.
Abayomi, 63, has once acted as director-general between October 25 to December 10, 2001.
Mamman who clocked 50 on July 7 was the dean, Students Affairs Division, office of the vice-chancellor University of Maiduguri before his appointment in 2001 as deputy director general of the school while Ojukwu, 44, who was appointed associate professor of Law/reader, Abia State University on October 1, 1998 was also a dean, faculty of law at Abia State University.
In a related development, the ranks of the senior advocates of Nigeria will increase on Monday when Chief Justice Muhammadu Lawal Uwais' Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LPPC) meet in Abuja.
The new silks are usually sworn in at the commencement of the new legal year in September.
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