By Innocent Anaba

Ile-ife—Participants in the four-day  National Conference organised by the Faculty of Law, Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, as part of activities to mark the 55th   Anniversary of the Faculty, have called for contributions by all professionals and disciplines in seeking solutions to  the nation’s problems.

Dean Faculty of Law OAU, Ile-Ife, Professor  Demola Popoola, at the event, said: “The challenges that law is facing cannot be meaningfully addressed with the instrumentality of  law alone.  That was the rationale for the theme of the anniversary national conference an interdisciplinary dimension. If you go through the programme,  you find out that we have invited historians, social scientists, economists, and even accountants to give perspectives on the theme of the lecture. This is because we appreciate that the problem that faces any society can hardly be resolved through the instrumentality of just one discipline.”

On the performance of the University graduates in the country, Prof.  Popoola said: “We thank God for what we have been able to achieve, we might not,  like other institutions be where we actually would want to  be,  but I think that in terms of our products, their  quality and so on, we can beat our chest and give all glory to God for all the landmark achievement we had recorded.

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”As I said in the judiciary,  we have  Senior Advocates of Nigeria, in the civil service, in the corporate world, in actual practice of law, our products are recurring decimals and  they are doing us proud everywhere. Each batch has been particularly encouraging and that is what has been sustaining the current generation of our lecturers.”

In his opening remarks, chairman of the Conference Planning Ccommittee, Prof. Babafemi Odunsi said: “Faculty of Law and, by extension, Obafemi Awolowo University is committed to important developments at national and international levels, and ever set to make inputs as considered apposite.

“This is what informed the theme of this particular conference. As we all know- with recession, inflation, increasing rates of poverty, widening gaps between rich and poor, disillusionment with political leaderships and so on, Nigeria is presently faced with fundamental and confounding socio-economic issues.

“It is our hope as organizers that this Conference will offer meaningful contributions to the discourse on how Nigeria can effectively combat the socio-economic challenges, particularly with the mechanism of Law.”