The Court of Appeal on Wednesday ruled that Lead City University, an Ibadan-based private university, had been running its Law programme illegally.
The three-man panel of judges, in a judgement that lasted about three hours, upturned an earlier decision of an Oyo State High Court which declared illegal the invalidation of the programme by the National Universities Commission (NUC).
The lower court’s judgement was based on a suit filed by a first class graduate of law in the university, Segun Alli, accusing the NUC of denying him the right to proceed to the law school after completing his degree programme in the private university.
Giving the lead Judgment, which was unanimously adopted by two other justices, Chidi Uwa upheld the appeal of the NUC, declaring that the university has been operating its law programme without the required accreditation.