NUC Suspended Admission Into NOUN Law Programme

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has suspended admissions into the law degree programme of the National
Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).

According to the Executive Secretary
of the NUC, Prof. Julius Okojie, the
moratorium would be in place pending the resolution of issues with
the Council on Legal Education (CLE).

It would be recalled that the CLE has
persistently disallowed NOUN’s law
graduates from being admitted into
the Nigerian Law School.

“When CLE came up with the idea of
no part time law, NOUN did not
consider law a part time programme
by their mode; so they did not stop
the programme.’’

According to him, NOUN’s law
programme is not conceived as part
time as there is no need studying if
one will not attend law school.

He urged CLE to admit NOUN’s law
graduates and give the institution its
quota in terms of how many students they could admit.