Wife of the Rivers State
Governor, Justice Suzette Wike, has called on students studying law at the Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST) to inculcate reading habits if the they must succeed as students and lawyers.
Justice Wike, who made the call recently at an inaugural lecture organised by the faculty of law of the university, stated that such reading habit is one sure way for the students to “compete favourably with your foreign counterparts”
Wike, an aluminus of the same faculty, emphasised that their reading should cut across books written by both Nigerian and foreign authors.
“You should engage yourselves in reading relevant books authored by both foreign and local writers in improving your performance in the legal profession,” she said.
While encouraging the students to always identify with their colleagues who are serious minded with their studies to avoid being distracted, Justice Wike noted that the recent rehabilitation and  procurement of needed facilities in the law faculty by the state government has provided an advantage the students should exploit.
Speaking on the inaugural topic, “Local Trained, Globally Relevant,” the inaugural lecturer, Mrs Boma Ozobia, called on law students and legal practitioners to see challenges as an opportunity to excel in life.
Properly trained local lawyers can do better if they are grounded with books authored by local and foreign writers,” she said.
She used the opportunity to urge the students to be focused in order to achieve their goals in their legal profession.
Ozobia noted that “in spite of the oppression of the British traders in some selected Nigerian Kingdoms, the Nigerian traders were not fettered, hence they achieved their goals in the face of oppression”.
Earlier, the Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Blessing Didia, had thanked the organizers of the lecture, noting that it had succeeded in bringing together the Alumni of the faculty for the development of the institution.
He urged all members of the Alumni to borrow a leaf from Justice Wike and her husband by becoming “good ambassadors of the university”.