By Babatunde Tiamiyu
Kayode Bello, a Law Graduate and Activist, has asked the Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State Capital, and presided over by Justice Evelyn Maha, to compel the Nigerian Law School under the control of the Council of Legal Education to readmit him.
Bello is contesting that there is nothing in the Nigerian Law School code of conduct for Nigerian Law School Students that prevents him from being readmitted at the Nigerian Law School and there are new facts and documents on his expulsion from the Nigerian Law School in 2017.
Bello, has, among others, stated that Prof. Oluyemisi Bamgbose the then Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Ibadan, withheld a pardon letter addressed to him, and that the circumstances about the pardon letter were part of reasons for his expulsion at the Nigerian law School.
Bello has also told the Court in the sworn affidavit that a file copy but not the original of the pardon letter was only given to him during his Masters programme at the University of Ibadan.
Recall that Mr. Bello was expelled from the Nigerian Law School in 2017 following his complaint against poor learning facilities at the Nigerian Law School in Abuja.
Also, a Court Order permitting him to write his Bar final exam was disobeyed by the authorities of the Nigerian Law School in 2017.
Hearing has been slated for January 27, 2026, in the lawsuit number FHC/IB/CS/93/2025 while respondents have been served Motion on Notice, Order on Leave to serve the Motion on Notice, and the Hearing Notice dated December 5, 2025.
Moreover, Mr. Bello has asked the Minister of Education , Dr. Tunji Alausa, the Council of Legal Education, Director General of the Nigerian Law School, Prof. Issa Ayattou, the University of Ibadan, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Prof. Kayode Adebowale, the Dean, Faculty of Law, and Prof. John Akintayo, Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan to send response, comments and actions taken to Mr. Bello on his request for intervention on the law school readmission denial dated August 17th, 2022, without further delay.
Other orders asked for by Mr. Bello include an Order mandating the Council of Legal Education, and the Director General of the Nigerian Law School, Abuja, to readmit Mr. Bello after the expiration of the expulsion against him by the Council of Legal Education in 2017 without further delay.
Furthermore, Mr. Bello has asked the Court to mandate the Students’ Union of the University of Ibadan and its President to send response to him on their intervention on the Nigerian Law School readmission efforts of the Students’ Union since August 2022 till date, without further delay.
Mr. Bello has also asked the Court to declare that Prof. Akintayo John and Prof. Oluyemisi Bamgbose did not give him fair hearing in the process of his travel to the Switzerland for an academic programme during his undergraduate programme at the Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan, and that such facts and accompanying documents serve as fresh and more material evidence about the expulsion of Mr. Bello from the Nigerian Law School in 2017.
An award of N100,000,,000 as general damages against all the respondents jointly for the denial, delay psychological trauma, loss of time, hardship, and stress, caused him by delaying him till date from being readmitted to complete his Law School programme after the expiration of his expulsion in 2017 at the Nigerian Law School was prayed for by Mr. Bello who is the
Applicant in the lawsuit.
Recall that Mr. Bello’s Masters’ student portal has been ordered to be reopened by the Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, and presided over by Justice Evelyn Maha.
However, Mr. Bello has filed Form 48 on Notice on the Consequences to the disobedience of the Court Order to ensure his student portal is reopened for registration, and graduation at the University of Ibadan.
Pix: Prof. Oluyemisi Bamgbose, former Dean of the Faculty of Law, UI, one of those Kayode Bello (Kay Bello) has sued. Prof. Bamgbose withheld a pardon letter sent to Kay Bello in 2012 while a student at the Faculty of Law, in UI.
