University of Benin, where you have chosen to study law, was established in 1970.  Prompted by a desire to establish adequate facilities for legal education of the highest possible standard and adaptable for the needs of an emerging Nigerian nation, the Faculty of Law was established in 1981.
            You will find that the Faculty curriculum and facilities are designed to ensure that you have a keen mental training which will equip you to apply your mind to problems in clear, rational and independent manner.
            The lecturers are here to assist you to excel.  Feel free to approach them with your academic and social problems.  Even where they are unable to help you solve them, they will be willing to ensure the problems do not overwhelm you.  They will assist you to cope ably.
            No law faculty can teach all the law in the classroom.  For this purpose, thoroughly acquaint yourself with the Law Library.  The law is only partially in your lecturers’ brain; the whole law is in the law reports, journals and texts which are in abundance in the library.  Our goal in the Faculty is to ensure that you acquire not only legal knowledge for practical value, but much more to acquire training in legal thinking, and this you can only achieve if you apply yourself diligently to the use of the library.
            The Faculty has a dress code.  Abide by it, please.  Legal training is a professional activity and we do not want your dressing and grooming to derogate from your professionalism.  Lecturers, non-academic staff members and the Law Students Association (LAWSA) have authority to penalize you if your dress and grooming are irregular. 
            Legal education is more than taking in academic head knowledge.  The University affords you opportunity to meet people from diverse backgrounds.  To this end, I encourage you to associate with noble persons on campus.  Register and participate in LAWSA extra-curricula activities as well as moot competitions.  Please avoid all ignoble associates.
            Please eschew every form of examination malpractice.  No one found guilty of examination malpractice gets admitted into the Nigerian Law School.  Do not be misled!  From my years of teaching experience most candidates who get involved in examination malpractice have low self-esteem.  So believe in your ability; believe in yourself!
            Remain focused and determined; distraction can ruin your career prospects.  Once again, you are heartily welcome to the Law Faculty. 

 Dean of Law