President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Dr Olugbemisola Titilayo Odusote because the Director-Common of the Nigerian Law School.
His Particular Adviser on Data and Technique, Bayo Onanuga, disclosed this in an announcement on Tuesday.
In response to the assertion, the appointment takes impact on January 10, 2026, for a four-year time period.
The 54-year-old Odusote is presently the Deputy Director-Common and Head of the Lagos Campus and can turn out to be the first girl to guide the establishment since its institution in 1962.
She is going to succeed the present Director-Common, Professor Isa Hayatu Chiroma, whose tenure expires on January 9, 2026, after eight years of service.
Titilayo Odusote obtained her LL.B. diploma from Obafemi Awolowo College and was known as to the Nigerian Bar in 1988. She holds an LL.M from the identical college, specialising in firm and industrial regulation.
She later obtained a PhD in Law from the College of Surrey, in the UK, with analysis pursuits in Public Law and the administration of justice.
She joined the regulation faculty in 2001 as a lecturer. Since then, she has served in varied capacities, together with as head of the tutorial division, director of teachers, and head of campus.
Throughout her profession on the regulation faculty, she was a visiting scholar at Nottingham Trent College within the UK for a short while.
Odusote has revealed extensively in respected native and worldwide regulation journals and has offered papers at quite a few authorized schooling conferences. She additionally served on committees of the Council of Authorized Training and the Nigerian Bar Affiliation.
As Director-Common, Odusote will likely be chargeable for the establishment’s total tutorial management, administrative administration, and strategic route throughout all campuses. She may also function the first liaison between the college, the Council of Authorized Training, the Physique of Benchers, and the Nigerian Bar Affiliation.
