Faculty of Law

Vision :To maintain high standard in training law graduates.

Mission: To produce law graduates of international repute

Philosophy :
The philosophy of the LL.B. (Civil Law) and LL.B (WSIL) programme offered by the Faculty is to impart knowledge and learning of international standard in LL.B and Sharia Laws to men and women of all races without any distinction on grounds of race, religious or political beliefs that would meet the diverse manpower needs of the nation in both private and public sectors.

Objectives of the Programme

The objectives for the establishment of the programme include the following:

• To produce law graduates who would be called to the Nigerian Bar and practice legal profession in both Nigeria and abroad.
• To provide qualified legal personnel who would teach law in both Nigeria and abroad.
• To produce law graduates with a broad and comprehensive background in law to engage in a wide variety of professional services to the society both nationally and internationally.
• With its rich and most comprehensive Islamic Law curricula, the programme aim to produce graduates that chose to specialize in Islamic law with in-depth knowledge in the Sharia legal system to meet the needs of the hybrid legal system especially in the Northern states of the country.
• As the only first generation university in the Northern states the Faculty trains postgraduate personnel to meet the manpower needs of sister faculties and legal departments in virtually all the universities and other tertiary institutions in the Northern states.
• To generally provide a professional degree whose graduates would pursue careers as:
• Private legal practitioners
• Counsel in both state and federal ministries of justices.
• Administrative officers in government ministries.
• Foreign affairs officers
• Legal advisers in government parastatals or private corporations.
• Company secretaries.
• Administrative/Legal officers in commercial or industrial enterprises.
• Legal or administrative work in international organizations.
• Justices in both lower and higher bench.
• Candidates for postgraduate courses leading to specialization in certain areas of the Law.