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By Omeiza Ajayi
ABUJA: President Bola Tinubu has flagged disconnected the operation of a 600-bed hostel astatine the Bwari Campus of the Nigerian Law School successful Abuja, portion besides approving the gathering of an further auditorium to accommodate the rising fig of students.
The project, which volition spot the operation of 300-bed hostels each for antheral and pistillate students, was described is seen arsenic large involution successful addressing the acute shortage of accommodation astatine the Law School.
Speaking astatine the authoritative flag-off connected Monday, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory FCT, Nyesom Wike, said the inaugural was a fulfillment of a committedness made by the President successful December 2024 during the flag-off of unit quarters for the school.
“Today, we are present to fulfill the committedness Mr President made. This shows that erstwhile you person bully leadership, determination is thing hard successful achieving results. Mr. President has shown leadership,” Wike said.
The FCT Minister noted that since the inception of the Abuja field successful 1997, nary medication had intervened successful the Law School’s infrastructure arsenic importantly arsenic President Tinubu’s government. He recalled a caller treatment helium had with 1 of his sons, who was precocious called to Bar, regarding the constricted capableness of the existing auditorium.
“Last night, I tabled this earlier Mr President and helium instantly approved the operation of different auditorium. This demonstrates that erstwhile issues are channeled properly, responsive enactment ever provides solutions,” Wike added.
The Minister besides commended the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, who represented President Bola Tinubu, for his committedness to advancing the justness sector, citing his relation successful initiating the digitization of the FCT High Courts and mobilizing enactment for the Law School.
Wike assured that the hostels would beryllium completed wrong 12 months, stressing that contractors had been warned against delays oregon variations.
Earlier successful his remarks, the Director General of the Nigerian Law School, Prof. Isa Hayatu Chiroma, SAN, lauded President Tinubu for approving the project, describing it arsenic a landmark publication to ineligible acquisition successful Nigeria.
“The operation of these hostels volition spell a agelong mode successful assisting the Nigerian Law School to fulfill its mandate. We are not taking this motion for granted,” Chiroma said.
He besides praised Wike for his accordant interventions successful ineligible education, recalling his contributions to the Graham Douglas field of the Law School successful Port Harcourt, the Yenagoa campus, and the proviso of unit quarters and inferior vehicles.
“Posterity volition beryllium benignant to you erstwhile the past of ineligible acquisition and the justness assemblage is written successful Nigeria,” the DG told the FCT minister.
The lawsuit was attended by apical officials of the FCT Administration, the Federal Ministry of Justice and members of the Council of Legal Education.
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