The imposition of the moratorium followed the findings of the Council of Legal Education which showed that the university’s Law Faculty had a backlog of over 347 law students waiting to be admitted into the Nigerian Law School.
Some recent graduates of law and students of Baze University, Abuja have expressed their regrets and worries over the five-year ban imposed on the university by the Nigerian Law School.
Baze University was founded by Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, the vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election.
SaharaReporters had reported how the Nigerian Law School banned Baze University from admitting students into its law faculty for consistently violating its admission quota of 50 students per session as approved by the Council of Legal Education (CLE) in November.
The imposition of the moratorium followed the findings of the Council of Legal Education which showed that the university’s Law Faculty had a backlog of over 347 law students waiting to be admitted into the Nigerian Law School.
Speaking to the News Agency Of Nigeria on Monday, the affected students said their ambitions towards becoming practising lawyers in Nigeria were at risk of uncertainty and unnecessary delay due to the actions of their school management.
One of them, Vanessa Adeh, who graduated from the law faculty in 2022 said it’s a big regret for her to be facing what she thought she had escaped by avoiding public universities.
“I graduated in 2022 and have been waiting to attend law school. The school said they are working to resolve the situation, but it’s taking longer. I am already having regrets but I hope they will resolve the issues fast,” Ms Adeh was quoted as saying by NAN.
She continued: “It really saddens my heart that I went to a private university to avoid stories like this, but unfortunately, what I hoped not to encounter is now what I am facing.”
She added that a lot of her classmates were disturbed by the situation and questioned why the administration of the school would allow the problem to degenerate to the point of being banned.
Hadiza Umar, a law student at the university, said she was worried because there was a high tendency for the situation to affect her mental health. She, therefore, urged the school management to resolve the issues urgently for the sake of the affected students.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, another student expressed her main worry as being that the university administration had not provided its perspective or its plans for addressing the problem.
She asked the institution to release information that would ease the fears of many alumni and students worried about the impact of the ban.
Usman Aliyu, a law faculty graduate of the school, urged BAZE officials to release details about the specific steps they were taking to address the issue.
All efforts made by SaharaReporters to get the reaction of the school on the issues were not successful.
Two of the three contact phone numbers obtained from the school’s official website were not reachable. The only one available was answered by an official of the university who said he was not in the best position to speak on the matter.
He, however, refused to provide SaharaReporters with the phone number of the person in the best position to comment on the issue.