The Senate has passed a Bill that seeks to increase the number Law School campuses from six to 12.
The Bill was passed on Tuesday following the adoption of the recommendation of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters.
Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, the Chairman of the committee, presented the report.
The Bill, titled: “A Bill for an Act to amend the Legal Education (Consolidation, etc) Act by establishing the campuses for the Nigerian Law School, and for other related matters” was sponsored by Kogi West Senator, Smart Adeyemi.
Senator Bamidele, said the creation of the six law schools was a legislative intervention to address “the exponential increase in the number of law graduates from our universities and foreign ones, coupled with the backlog that existed over the years.”
“Existing campuses are overstretched and the infrastructures are not enough to accommodate thousands of law students graduating from the universities,” he added.
The existing Law School campuses are located in Lagos (Southwest); Abuja (North Central); Adamawa (Northeast); Kano (Northwest); Enugu (Southeast) and Bayelsa (South-South).
The additional campuses approved by the Senate are Kabba Law School Campus, Kogi State (Northcentral); Maiduguri Law School Campus, Borno State (Northeast); Argungu Law School Campus, Kebbi State (Northwest); Jos Law School Campus, Plateau State (North Central); Okija Law School Campus, Anambra State (Southeast); Orogun Law School Campus, Delta State (Southsouth) and Ilawe Law School Campus, Ekiti State (Southwest).