By Olusegun Olanrewaju
As part of strategies to boost legal education in the country, President Muhammadu Buhari will today commission the Nebo Graham-Douglas Campus of the Nigerian Law School in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
The project is one of the landmark achievements of Governor Nyesom Wike’s administration in the state, and it was conceived and executed to provide an avenue for lecturers and students to operate in an atmosphere of sound legal standards.
Governor Wike, the executor of the project, will thus be consolidating on his achievements which was recently capped with a presidential honour of Distinguished award of Infrastructure by the Federal Government.
On take-off, the hardworking Rivers State governor had disclosed that the state government decided to build the Dr. Nabo Graham Douglas campus of the Nigerian Law School in Port Harcourt to be a self-sustaining institution in Nigeria.
Wike disclosed the plans for the school while speaking some months ago during the handing over the Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) of the property to the campus acquired by the state government to the Chairman of the Council of Legal Education, Chief Emeka Ngige (SAN).
The governor made the presentation when he conducted Ngige together with the Director-General of Nigeria Law School, Prof. Isa Hayatu Chiroma (SAN) and other dignitaries around the structures on the law campus that has now been completed and is ready for formal handing over today.
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Wike also disclosed that the acquisition of the adjoining property to the campus would 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.
He said, “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, 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 is derived is to be utilised for this campus alone.”
Today marks the realisation of that dream. Port Harcourt comes alive with pomp and deserved ceremony, observers say.
