MASS FAILURE AT THE NIGERIAN LAW SCHOOL!

LBW Says: The mass failure at the Nigerian Law School is an offshoot of the decadence in our universities. From the post below all we could gleaned are sentiments and blackmail, the students are not talking about their poor and sordid despicable performance. Law is an elitist course worldwide and you have to be up and doing to excel, no sentiments here, enough of half baked lawyers in Nigeria.


Olarenwaju Adesola Onadeko, Director General, Nigeria Law School

Over 3000 students of the Nigerian Law School have decried the mass failure at the Bar examinations. The students who paid over N300, 000 for the one year programme lamented that over 70 per cent of them failed the examination, that is a prerequisite for them to be called to Bar

The students blamed their failure on the Director General of Nigerian Law School, Olarenwaju Adesola Onadeko. They claimed that Onadeko wants to destroy their career and by failing them in en mass. The students called for a review of the examination as well as that of their results.

Some of the students who sent text messages and email explained that some lecturers also want the results to be reviewed. “Save Law School Students: The DG Olarenwaju Onadeko has come to destroy the future of over 70 per cent of students who wrote exams in August and has run to the United Kingdom to seek solace,” a text message read.

Having endured long academic strike while in school some of the students have spent over seven years in tertiary institutions before they could attend Law School accused the DG of marking them down on purpose. “#Please save the future of 5000 law school student, so that the results may be reviewed because some lecturers are in support of this movement as they know the DG asked for a lot of scripts to be marked down. Please this is the least you can do,” another text read.

Another student said: “the mass failure at the Nigerian Law School is an insult to the legal system. Kindly help address this issue by calling the attention of authorities that matters; while another simply read: “#Please save the future of 5000 law school students”.

“We the law students of Nigerian Law School protest the poor handling and marking of our Bar 2 final exam. Please we need the media to come to our aid,” an email read.

“The Nigerian Law School released the 2013/2014 August result. It was a Tsunami! Out of 6000 candidates who registered, about #2172 passed. We are talking of about #4000 students who failed”.

Another student then pointed out the financial implication of going to the Law School. “Do we say 4000 students paid N300,000 not counting expenses for one year, feeding, books, then prepared to FAIL?

At the time of filing this report, our correspondent was unable to reach the DG or any member of management.

Onadeko was the former Deputy Director General of Lagos campus and the former secretary to the council of Legal Education and Director of Administration of the Nigerian Law School.

Source: PM News

QUAGMIRE AT NIGERIAN LAW SCHOOL OVER HIJAB!

Muslim Sisters in Nigeria Law School, Lagos Campus, have petitioned stakeholders on the insistence of the school authorities that they must remove their head covering (hijab) for data capturing exercise.

Those petitioned include the school’s director-general and deputy director general, chairman, Nigerian Benchers, National Assembly Committees on Judiciary and Human Rights, Muslim Students Society of Nigeria and Muslim Lawyers Association.

In the petition made available to newsmen in Ibadan, the Muslim sisters said that the school directed those who wore Hijab during data capturing, to go back and make sure that their ear lobes were exposed.

“This directive did not go down well with us and we swiftly applied to the office of the deputy director general to kindly exempt us from doing data capture with ear lobes exposed. Rather than listening to our complaints and show respect for our faith, the school authority ably led by the DDG, Mrs TounAdebiyi, vehemently refused.

“She insisted that the school authority would not shift ground. She claimed that about 80 per cent of the female Muslim students have complied. Even with the intervention of the school’s MSSN leadership and the representatives of the Muslim Lawyers Association, the DDG still insisted.

“Even when we show the DDG an International passport data capture with hijab without ear lobes been shown, the DDG stated that their own data capturing machine would not perform effectively if the ear lobes are not shown,’’ part of the statement reads.

According to them, the school authority had threatened to disallow any student that did not do the data capture from sitting for the examination.

“Doing this data capturing by removing our head covering is contrary to our religious beliefs, Islam, which is recognised by Nigerian Constitution, and it will cause us emotional and psychological trauma.

“I think Nigerian public should know what is going on in our Law School.

It was in the same profession that female students for Call to Bar ceremony MUST loose their hair and expose it irrespective of their religious belief.

“Our representatives in the National Assembly as well as well-meaning Nigerians should please come to the aid of our Muslim female students to nip this breach of human rights in the name of professional requisite in the bud,’’ they said.

Source: Leadership News