Senator Michael Opeyemi Bamidele, chairman of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights, and Legal Matters, has advocated that the Dr Nabo Graham Douglas Port Harcourt Campus of the Nigerian Law School should serve as the centre for the promotion of continuous legal education in the country.
Bamidele said the advocacy is part of the Senate committee’s advice to the Council of Legal Education and the Nigerian Law School because the Port Harcourt Law campus meets the global best standard required of such centre.
The senator disclosed this when members of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights, and Legal Matterspaid a visit to the Law School campus in Port Harcourt on Tuesday.
He said they are amazed at the quality of facilities that the Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike has provided for the training of law graduates.
“It’s a celebration of our democracy. It’s a celebration of leadership. It’s a celebration of an accomplishment. So, as part of our own advice, both to the Council of Legal Education and the Nigerian Law School is to even, based on the standard that has been set in the Port Harcourt Campus, ensure to reserve some of the rooms, dedicated to ensuring that our continuous legal education is taken very seriously using the Port Harcourt Campus as the base for this.”
Senate Minority Leader, Senator Philip Aduda, commended Wike for his laudable projects and stressed that this necessitated the clamour for him to move to the centre to replicate some of his extraordinary achievements.
The Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Ikuinyi-Owaji Ibani said Governor Wike’s decision to construct a new campus of the Nigerian Law School in Port Harcourt is a sheer demonstration of his patriotism and commitment to the nation.
On his part, former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Chief Onueze. C. J. Okocha, SAN, said the completion of the Port Harcourt campus of the Nigerian Law School is another promise fulfilled by the governor.
