The immediate past Director General of the Council for Legal Education, Dr. Tahir Mamman, has urged Nigerian University Law Colleges/Faculties angling for accreditation of their Law Programme to first visit the Law College of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), as a pre-condition for getting a date for Accreditation visit by the Council.
Already heeding the Council’s counsel are the Law Faculties of Adeleke University, Ede, Osun State and Benson Idahosa University, Benin, which recently visited ABUAD with both referring to the directive by the Council for Legal Education as the reason for their visit.
Indeed, ABUAD can be described as a giant at four.
Domiciled in an intimidating and magnificent edifice within a serene environment, ABUAD’s Law College has such facilities as three air-conditioned lecture theatres, 10 different classrooms for automated research and interactive teaching and learning, teaching laboratories, one Moot Court, two Law Clinics, state-of-the-art E-Libraries and physical libraries, a staff/students ratio of 1/16, E-software, Lexis Nexis and Compu Law among others which can conveniently cater for more than 1,500 students.
Apart from the above multi-billion Naira investment in the College, the Faculty is composed of leading academics with astute and international professional and intellectual influence rare to find in many universities in this clime.
The directive by the Council for Legal Education is a further affirmation of an earlier observation by the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Prof. Julius Okojie, who described ABUAD’s Law College in the following words: “The University Law College is certainly the best in West Africa”.
Today, ABUAD’s College of Law has deliberately set high standards of learning and research, equity of opportunity and monumental achievements that promise to help the recognition by the erudite academic and former Director General of the Council for Legal Education become a reality.
In tandem with today’s reality in higher education which emphasizes both inputs and outcomes, ABUAD, a four-year old private university, has made giant strides, won several awards and acknowledgments and received many accolades much faster than any Nigerian University to remain at the top of the ladder in the provision of quality, functional and reformatory education in Nigeria today.
Another key achievement of note by the university is that it is championing international educational excellence for all its students through on-going collaborations with national and foreign universities, educational systems and supra-national organizations like UNESCO and the World Bank.