JAMB admission ban won’t affect you, KWASU assures law students

According to Kwara State University, Malete, students enrolled in its Faculty of Law are unaffected by the recent one-year prohibition on admission to the university's law program.

This was revealed in a statement released in Ilorin on Thursday by Dr. Saeedat Aliyu, Acting Director, University Relations.

According to Aliyu, the prohibition resulted from the Council for Legal Education's decision to authorise KWASU to start the law program in 2018 with just the National Universities Commission's consent.

The NUC and the CLE have fully accredited KWASU to offer two undergraduate legal programs: Common legal and Common and Islamic Law, she stated.

The administration would like to clarify that students enrolled in programs at the University's Faculty of Law are not impacted in any manner by the one-year restriction.

"KWASU will abide by the sanctions imposed by CLE by not admitting students into the two law programs in the upcoming 2025/2026 admission session. We hold all regulatory institutions in the highest regard."

"As all programs at KWASU have all the necessary accreditations, prospective candidates for these programs may apply to other equally excellent programs offered by the institution," Aliyu stated.

On Wednesday, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board declared that it would no longer be accepting applications for admission to KWASU's and seven other institutions' law programs.

This was allegedly in response to the CLE suspending the Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) program at the impacted colleges for the 2025–2026 academic year.

Therefore, for the 2025–2026 academic year, JAMB announced that it will not grant admission to any applicants wishing to register in the Law program at the aforementioned universities.