{"id":2298,"date":"2025-11-11T10:24:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T10:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aksu.edu.ng\/newsite\/?page_id=2298"},"modified":"2025-11-11T10:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T10:58:07","slug":"aksu-launches-faculty-of-law-following-nuc-approval","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aksu.edu.ng\/newsite\/aksu-launches-faculty-of-law-following-nuc-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"AKSU Launches Faculty of Law Following NUC Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n<h2>AKSU Launches Faculty of Law Following NUC Approval<\/h2>\n\n<p>Akwa Ibom State University (AKSU) has achieved a major milestone with the National Universities Commission (NUC) granting final approval for the commencement of its <b>Faculty of Law<\/b>. The new program, offering the full-time LL.B Law degree, will officially begin operations in the <b>2025\/2026 academic session<\/b> at the Main Campus.<\/p><p>The NUC\u2019s decision follows a thorough resource verification visit that confirmed the University&#8217;s readiness in terms of human and material resources.<\/p><p>The establishment of the Faculty of Law, which includes three departments (Private and Property Law, Jurisprudence and International Law, and Commercial and Industrial Law), is hailed as a significant achievement under the leadership of Acting Vice-Chancellor, <b>Professor Otoabasi Akpan<\/b>.<\/p><p>In addition to the Law Faculty, Professor Akpan&#8217;s recent tenure has seen the rapid establishment of the Faculties of Communication and Media Studies, and Computing and Information Technology, as well as the successful accreditation of numerous post-graduate programs.<\/p><p>The move is seen by university officials as a seamless implementation of Governor Pastor Umo Eno\u2019s &#8220;Arise Agenda,&#8221; aimed at expanding access to quality education for Akwa Ibom youths.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2298","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aksu.edu.ng\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aksu.edu.ng\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aksu.edu.ng\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aksu.edu.ng\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aksu.edu.ng\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aksu.edu.ng\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"https:\/\/aksu.edu.ng\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2298\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aksu.edu.ng\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}