The University of Ibadan has produced the overall best graduating student at the 2020 bar final exams of the Nigerian Law School with its graduates winning 28 out of the total 38 prizes, the university Vice Chancellor, Professor Idowu Olayinka, has revealed.
University of Ibadan is rated first in Nigeria, 7th in Africa and one of the top 500 in the world in the 2021 Times Higher Education World Universities Rankings.
Expressing the university’s delight at the outstanding performance of her law graduates, the VC said the feat was a product of hard work, innovation and perseverance of the members of the Faculty, adding that the university will continue to post superior performance in the years ahead.
He said, “We received the news with much joy in our hearts, coming barely two weeks after our great university was ranked the best in West Africa, number 7 in Africa and among the top 500 universities in the world. We will continue to post superior performance in the years ahead.
“ We congratulate our students, knowing full well that in the words of our university Anthem, this is ‘Greatness won with honest toil.’
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” We acknowledge with gratitude the persistence, hard work, innovation and perseverance of the members of the Faculty. The university management will continue to support you as we appreciate that Law is one of our flagship programmes.”
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According to the VC, the information received from the Director General of the Nigerian Law School, Professor Isa Hayatu Chiroma (SAN) indicated that 28 out of the 38 prizes at the bar final examinations January 2020 as approved by the Council of Legal Education, Bwari, Abuja were won by the institution’s law products.
He said the overall best student in the person of Olalere Yusuf Asamu, won a total of 12 prizes. “Adebayo, Deborah Ibukun Oluwa emerged the Best Overall Female Student of the Year, in addition to her winning four other prizes. Madu, Kelechi Chris-Angelo; Ayeku, Adeyemi Kehinde and Udeh, Kosiso chukwu Chukwunonso won two prizes each, while Anyaeji, Ohizoba Theodora; Adebayo, Temilade Jumoke; Adewole Enifeoluwa Philip; Banjo, Afolasade Omobowale and Ojini. Ese Isioma won one prize each,” the VC said.
The prizes won by the Ibadan trained lawyers are in Property Law Practice; Civil Litigation; Criminal Litigation; Corporate Law Practice; Professional Ethics and Skills; Best Overall Male Student of the Year; Best Female Student in Civil Litigation; Best Female Student in Civil and Criminal Litigation; Best Student of the Year (1stPrize); Best Overall Male Student; Most Promising Student; Prize for 1st Class Students and the Council of Legal Education Star Prize.
Commenting on the development, a former Dean of Law and member of the university’s Governing Council, Professor Oluyemisi Adefunke Bamgbose, (SAN) said, “The outstanding performance of our students at the Nigerian Law School year 2020 is a consequence of a combination of the faithfulness of God; uncompromising and supportive university management; and first class and committed faculty staff and intelligent and diligent students.”
Also, the Dean of Law, Professor Simisola Olutoyin Akintola, expressed happiness over the outstanding performance of the UI students, noting that since nearly all the prize winners are UI students, she was just looking for the very few on the list who are not Ibadan products.
To Professor Israel Adeniyi Olatunbosun, the immediate Past Dean of Law and currently the Acting Vice-Chancellor of Kola Daisi University, Ibadan, “Our admission policy has been an added advantage and contribution to outstanding performances that we have been recording at the Nigerian Law School.
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“Once again, UI law graduates have done the University proud at the 2020 Call to Bar ceremony with outstanding records carting away 28 out of 38 prizes and awards , including the star prize by Yusuf Olalere. Remarkably UI graduates have proven consistently superlative records of high quality and attest to our maxim that certainly if it must be from UI, it must be of outstanding quality.”
Dr John Akintayo a Reader in Law, Quondam Head of Department and one of the first generation of students of Law at the University of Ibadan in the 1980s said he had asked a colleague “to identify all our graduates so that I don’t leave anyone out. Madu, Ayeku are UI Graduates. Congratulations sir. Thank you for your support sir. My VC sir, we are quite excited. This has proved to the whole world that Ibadan is the best place to study Law in Nigeria.”
In the same vein, Dr Afolasade Adewumi, a Senior Lecturer in Law and a member of the University Senate said, “Greatest UItes won almost all the Law School Prizes; UItes won 28 out of 38 prizes. Thank you very much Sir. You have done excellently well for all of us. You provided the conducive environment for us to work in. We once again congratulate these great ambassadors of the University of Ibadan for doing their alma mater proud and wish you and all your other colleagues who were also called to the Bar today greater successes in their career. Having received the best legal training at Ibadan and Abuja, the world is now under your feet. Higher still.”
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