{"id":81244,"date":"2026-01-06T21:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81244"},"modified":"2026-01-06T21:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:21:07","slug":"tinubu-appoints-first-female-director-general-of-nigerian-law-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/06\/tinubu-appoints-first-female-director-general-of-nigerian-law-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Appoints First Female Director-General of Nigerian Law School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Dr Olugbemisola Odusote as the Director-General of the Nigerian Law School, making her the first woman to lead the institution since its establishment in 1962.<br \/>\nThe appointment takes effect from January 10, 2026, for a four-year term, according to a statement issued on Tuesday by the President\u2019s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga. Odusote will succeed Professor Isa Hayatu Chiroma, whose tenure ends on January 9, 2026.<br \/>\nCurrently the Deputy Director-General and Head of the Lagos Campus, Odusote holds an LL.B. and LL.M. from Obafemi Awolowo University and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1988. She also earned a PhD in Law from the University of Surrey, United Kingdom.<br \/>\nShe joined the Nigerian Law School in 2001 and has served in several key roles, including head of academics and campus head. As Director-General, she will oversee academic and administrative leadership across all campuses and liaise with key legal bodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Dr Olugbemisola Odusote as the Director-General of the Nigerian Law School, making her the first woman to lead the institution since its establishment in 1962. The appointment takes effect from January 10, 2026, for a four-year term, according to a statement issued on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81246,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81244\/revisions\/81246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}