A law graduate of the University of Ibadan, Mr. Kayode Bello, has filed a suit against the Minister of Education, the Council of Legal Education, the Nigerian Law School, the University of Ibadan, and several senior university officials over the alleged unlawful denial of his readmission into the Nigerian Law School.

The suit, marked FHC/IB/CS/93/2025, is currently pending before the Federal High Court in Ibadan and is brought under an application for judicial review.

Bello is asking the court to compel the respondents, including the Minister of Education Dr. Tunji Alausa, the Director-General of the Nigerian Law School, Prof. Issa Ayattou Ciroma, and University of Ibadan officials such as Vice-Chancellor Prof. Kayode Adebowale, to formally respond to his repeated requests for intervention regarding his readmission, initially submitted on August 17, 2022.

He is also seeking orders requiring the Council of Legal Education and the Nigerian Law School to communicate formally after the expiration of the expulsion imposed on him in 2017, which he argues has lapsed. Additionally, Bello wants the University of Ibadan Students’ Union and its President, Mr. Covenant Odedele, to provide details of any intervention they have undertaken on his behalf since August 2022.

The applicant is further asking the court to declare that Professors John Akintayo and Oluyemisi Bamgbose denied him a fair hearing concerning his travel to Switzerland for an academic programme during his undergraduate studies. Bello claims these facts constitute fresh and material evidence related to his 2017 expulsion from the Nigerian Law School.

Bello is seeking ₦100 million in general damages from all respondents for denial, delay, psychological trauma, loss of time, hardship, and stress resulting from the failure to allow him to complete his Law School programme.

He recalled that the Federal High Court in Ibadan, presided over by Justice Evelyn Maha, had previously ordered the reopening of his Master’s student portal at the University of Ibadan to enable completion of registration and graduation processes. Bello has since filed a Form 48 notice of consequences for disobedience of court order against the university authorities for allegedly failing to comply with the directive.