The Director-General of the Nigerian Law School, Dr Tahir Mamman, says Nigeria and some other African countries may not be able to achieve international best practices in legal education because of their limitations in resource sharing facilities.
Mamman told journalists in Abuja on Sunday that “Nigeria and other African countries are not involved in extensive collaborations, opportunities and resource-sharing among faculties of law across the world.’’
According to Mamman, this development makes it difficult for the universities to achieve international best practices in legal education.
Speaking on the “Call to the Bar” ceremony of the Nigerian Law School Abuja on Saturday, Mamman called for re-stocking of all the libraries of the Nigerian Law School.
He said the interactive and skills learning component of the school needed a lot of infrastructure support.
“Last year, N52 million (about $346,000) was spent on the libraries. This was used to develop a scheme for the use of ICT for learning and assessment purposes,’’ he said.
He said the six campuses of the Nigerian Law School would be linked through Wireless Local Area Network for resource-sharing, video conference and robust data base for access to legal resources by staffers and students.
On the new law faculties to be recognized, Mamman said the rules and criteria for request of new faculties were published recently by the Council on Legal Education (CLE) and the National Universities Commission (NUC).
Source African Press Agency
