KWASU responds to JAMB’s suspension of its law programme
The administration of Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, has expressed its willingness to adhere to the one-year suspension of its law programme imposed by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
On Wednesday, JAMB issued a statement declaring that it would not facilitate admissions into the law programme of eight designated universities, including KWASU, due to the suspension of the Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) programme by the Council of Legal Education (CLE) for the 2025/2026 academic session.
Responding to this, the institution’s management clarified in a statement by the Acting Director of University Relations, Dr. Saeedat Aliyu, in Ilorin on Wednesday that: “JAMB’s announcement of a 1-year ban on admission into KWASU’s law programme is as a result of the decision of the Council for Legal Education (CLE) to sanction KWASU for commencing the law programme in 2018 with only the approval of the National Universities Commission (NUC).”
“KWASU currently has full accreditation from both the National Universities Commission (NUC) and the Council for Legal Education (CLE) to run 2 undergraduate law programmes: Common Law and Common and Islamic Law.”
“Management wishes to state that the 1-year ban does not in any way affect students currently running their programmes in the University’s Faculty of Law.”
“Kwara State University holds all regulatory institutions in very high regard and will comply with the sanctions imposed by CLE by not offering admission into the two law programmes in the coming 2025/2026 admission session.”
The university’s administration encouraged prospective students interested in the law programmes to explore other equally outstanding programmes available at KWASU, emphasizing that all academic programmes at the institution hold the necessary accreditations.
