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LAW SCHOOL DG APPOINTMENT Obasanjo gets list of nominees By Kemi Ogedengbe The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Akinlolu Olujimi (SAN), yesterday said that the list of candidates selected for the post of director general of the Nigerian Law School (NLS), has been forwarded to President Olusegun Obasanjo. In an interview with newsmen yesterday at the Supreme Court, the minister said that he has received the file from the appointment, promotions and disciplinary committee and passed same to the president for the final decision. He said, “I am not the person to make the appointment. The committee was set up to do that and I have forwarded its report to the president who will make the appointment out of the candidates selected by the committee.” Asked on allegation that a particular candidate would be favoured, the minister said he submitted the list to the president as recommended by the committee. He added that the appointment will be announced as soon as the president was through with the file. Also, the new Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), chairman, Chief Bayo Ojo, said that he could not say anything about who becomes the next director general of NLS, saying that he was yet to take over from his predecessor, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), who is not in the country now. On July 21, 2004, the cou-ncil’s appointment, prom-otion and disciplinary committee chaired by the imme-diate past president of the NBA, Chief Wole Olanipekun, conducted an interview for eight candidates namely the deputy directors general of the Nigerian Law School and heads of the Lagos, Kano and Enugu schools, Dr Kole Abayomi, Dr Tahir Mamman and Enest Ojukwu. Others are Professor Micheal Adediran of the Faculty of Law, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Mrs Oluwatoyin Doherty and the secretary to the Council of Legal Education, Mr Olarewaju Onadeko. Unconfirmed report said that the panel, for the first time considered a Northerner among the top three; and recommended Mamman, Abayomi and Ojukwu in that order to full council chaired by Justice Moronikeji Omotayo Onalaju, who in turn submitted the list to the Attorney-General of the Federation.     TO NEXT NEWS PAGE...

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