Some law students at Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, have raised questions about professorship title conferred on the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of Edo State, Professor Roland Otaru by the University.
The students said Otaru was ill-qualified for the title in a petition signed by K. Akanbi and addressed to the National Universities Commission (NUC) and Council of Legal Education.
Dated December 7, 2025, and made available to newsmen, the group said Otaru may have compromised the authorities of the school to get the title, alleging that the Edo AG was in private practice and at no time involved in what would qualify him for the title.
“The said Mr Roland Otaru is a full-time private legal practitioner in Ilorin, Kwara State, who got his doctorate in law two years ago from a private university in Ogun State.
“He has neither taught nor examined postgraduate law students anywhere in Nigeria to qualify him for appointment as an Associate Professor of law (Reader), let alone Professor of law.
“It is for this reason that we ask that the circumstances surrounding the alleged conferment of the Professor of Law status on Otaru be investigated and the culprits be brought to book,” the petition reads.
The students concluded with a threat to protest for a week if by mid-January 2026 the issue was not investigated.
