The Court of Appeal in Ibadan will on Monday (today) deliver judgment on the appeal filed by the National Universities Commission challenging the accreditation of the Law programme of the Lead City University, Ibadan.
The Federal High Court, Ibadan had restrained the commission from invalidating its earlier accreditation in a judgment in July 26, 2011.
A first class law graduate of the institution, Rev. Segun Alli, had dragged the NUC and the university, before the High Court "for thwarting his dream and that of other law graduates to proceed to Nigeria Law School after fulfilling all lawful requirements."
After Alli instituted the case against NUC, the Federal High Court in suit FHC/IB/CS/50/2009, declared as "unlawful the claim of NUC that the accreditation it conducted in May 2008 was invalided because the Legal Council of Education was not represented during the exercise."
According to the Federal High Court judgment, such claim is illegal and ultra-vires.
The court said it ran contrary to Section 10 and 11 of Education Act 2005.
The court also said the NUC claim was contrary to Sections 4 (i) (a), (ii) and (iii) of the NUC Act of 2004.
