AmazingELixir:
WE'VE BUILT PH LAW SCHOOL CAMPUS TO BE SELF SUSTAINING - WIKE

*As Gov. Wike hands over more titled document to chairman, Council of Legal Education, Chief Ngige.

Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has reemphasised that the Dr. Nabo Graham Douglas Campus of the Nigerian Law School in Port Harcourt has been provided to be a self sustaining institution in Nigeria.

To achieve that mandate, Governor Wike, on Monday, handed over the Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) of adjoining property to the campus acquired by the Rivers State government to the Chairman of the Council of Legal Education, Chief Emeka Ngige, SAN.

The presentation was made when Governor Wike conducted the Chairman of the Council of Legal Education, Chief Emeka Ngige, SAN, together with the Director General of Nigeria Law School, Prof. Isa Hayatu Chiroma, SAN and other dignitaries round structures within the Law Campus that are completed and ready for formal handover.

Governor Wike said the acquisition of the adjoining property to the campus will enable the operators of the campus to use them for sundry commercial and revenue generating activities in order to meet the financial needs of the Law School in Port Harcourt.

"We are using this opportunity to present the Certificate of Occupancy of the property we have acquired and paid for by the Rivers State government for the Nigerian Law School, Dr. Nabo Graham Douglas, Port Harcourt Campus to you (Chairman).

"We are giving the property to you for the purposes of making some revenue to run this campus. Whatever revenue derived is to be utilised for this campus alone.

"Very soon, the State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice and the Director General will meet to prepare a Memorandum of Understanding. It will ensure that you won't take revenue from here to subsidise for other campuses. Any money you make here, put it here in this campus."

Governor Wike also told them that with the construction work on all the structures in the campus now completed, the state government awaits the Council of Legal Education to choose a date when they desire the campus be formally handed over to them.

In his response, Chairman of the Council of Legal Education, Chief Emeka Ngige, SAN noted that they were on inspection of the facility and are amazed at what they have seen.

"17th July 2021 was when we came for the foundation laying ceremony and His Excellency promised that this project will be delivered in one-year. Behold, today is June 27th, not up to July yet and he had delivered.

"Recalled that when we were doing the ground breaking ceremony, His Excellency promised that every month he will give this campus N10million for four years, and will be given in advance, that is about N480 million to run this institution.

"When I learnt that he had acquired adjoining property; houses, shopping malls and other business facilities for the Law School to rent out to raise revenue to run this institution. I can tell you it is unparalleled."

On his part, the Director General of Nigerian Law School, Prof. Isa Hayatu Chiroma described the Dr. Nabo Graham Douglas Campus in Port Harcourt as the best and mother of all Law campuses in Nigeria.

"On behalf of the Council, we are very grateful for a promise made and promise kept. This is the turning point in the history of legal education in Nigeria."

During the inspection of the lecturers quarters in New Government Residential Area in Port Harcourt, former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Onueze C. J. Okocha, SAN, said governor Wike is a performer, who keeps promises and has delivered the Dr. Nabo Graham Douglas Port Harcourt Campus that is tastefully constructed and furnished before the record time he set for himself.
Also speaking, former President of the Nigerian Bar Association. Okey Wali, SAN, noted that Governor Wike has done this to show that he is a lover of democracy and for promotion of the judicial system in Nigeria.

The Rivers State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Prof. Zacchaeus Adangor, SAN, described the project as historic and iconic because there is nothing like it across the country. He said Governor Wike has provided it as a commitment to advancing legal education in the country.

plaindealer:
Technical and vocational centers for unskilled and unemployed youths and cultists would have sufficed.

DOTian:
I'm not hating but it's important to say this; Nigerian governments should place much emphasis on investing in science related courses and programmes , rather than spending billions to build up structures for all these art and social science courses. We place much emphasis on the wrong things. Nigeria can only develop her productive abilities as a country with more engineers and scientists. Lawyers can only argue endlessly in Court! Nobody exports the products of their agreements to other countries to earn foreign exchange.

Nigeria can even earn more forex if this was say a medical school. We see thousands of Nigerian doctors being recruited by foreign countries to work in their hospitals. Bad as this is since we need them back home, they will ultimately send dollars home someday! How many Nigerian lawyers get recruited to go work in foreign courts? Apart from splashing saliva left and right in dingy Court room,, what is the grand benefits of these lawyers in present day Nigeria? Helping to make people who lost elections to be declias governors!? Government should prioritize her investments in education in favor is science courses! That's what countries like China and Korea did.

stevnwigw1:

next time if a zoologist wins, he will develop the fisheries sector of the Atlantic Ocean

golor:
Leave am Wike finish work here ..for once let me praise him ....anytime I de pass agip flyover na so so look I just de look

DOTian:

Coming from someone who is vigorously supporting a PooPoocrat for Nigerias presidency, this is very rich, i must confess..

plaindealer:
It's sad that this man spent 8 years in office and presided over the richest state in Nigeria, but nothing meaningful to show beyond ego projects that are mostly of zero economic or wealth-creating value, zero meaningful job-creating investments, the man just build whatever rubbish that comes to his mind, useless flyovers all over the place as if he was elected to build flyovers.

I think he gets some kind of rise in building his ego projects and then importing other jokers from other states to commission his wasteful spending.

This state has the highest misery index and unemployment rate in Nigeria, but job creation, no, just his own ego projects.

Is Rivers state the law capital of Africa? Are Lawyers trooping to Rivers state to study law/. No, so where is the need for this ugly barracks, unrefined and lousy architecture-looking monstrosity? No class, no personal sophistication, just lay bricks to stroke his own ego.


This is just too sad..