From Maiharaji Altine
Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara state has been called upon to intervene and save 25 students of the Nigerian Law school by settling their registration fees from 2023 to 2024.
This is contained in a statement jointly signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the Forum, Comrade Mubasshir Umar Gusau and Mahmud Sani-Kaura respectively issued to newsmen in Gusau on Friday.
In a statement jointly signed by chairman of the forum Mubasshir Umar Gusau and the secretary, Mahmud Sani Kaura, it was stated that more than 90 percent of Zamfara indigenes who studied law, graduated from various universities and secured admission to the Nigeria Law School cannot afford to pay the registration fees due to financial difficulties.
The statement reads in parts as follows:-
“The admission to law school comes once in a year and admission is secured before fees is paid which is our burden”.
“Traditionally due to exorbitant school fees of the Nigerian Law School, state governments especially in the Northern Nigeria pay the registration, mobility and logistics for their indigenes law students qualified and admitted in the Law School.
“We are appealing for urgent intervention of our kind-hearted state government under Gov Dauda Lawal”, the statement said.
“We are appealing to government to consider our request as the deadline for the registration is approaching.
“The Forum appreciate rescue mission policy of Gov Dauda Lawal under which he declared emergency to education sector of the state”, the statement added.
