The Nigerian Law School recently released the 2013/2014 August result, and about 4,000 students were said to have failed the examination which is a prerequisite for them to be called to Bar.

The students who paid over N300, 000 for the one year programme are angry and frustrated, blaming the their failure on the Director General of Nigerian Law School, Olarenwaju Adesola Onadeko, PM News reports.

They claimed that Onadeko wants to destroy their career by failing them en masse and they have called for a review of the examination as well as their results.

In their reaction, some of the students said: “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.

“#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.

“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”.

The Board of Studies of the Council of Legal Education has directed that henceforth, re-sit candidates are to attend at least eight weeks compulsory revision classes at the Nigerian Law School.

This is in view of the poor performance of re-sit candidates at the August 2014 examinations.

According to the press release signed by the Head, Public Relation of the Nigerian Law School, Mr Chinedu Ukekwe, no re-sit candidate shall be allowed at the bar final examinations until he or she has undergone the stipulated revision classes.

The release also gave a break down of the performance of the Law School candidates for the August bar final exam.

A total number of 5,841 regular candidates took the exam out of which four had a first class honours, while 96 candidates had 2nd class upper division and 620 had 2nd class lower division.

However, a total of 2,610 passed while 501 had conditional pass and 1,932 failed the exam.

The release also indicated that a total of 1,335 re-sit candidates sat for the exam while 88 passed, 26 had a conditional pass and 1,168 failed.

The Law School authorities said that anyone who is not satisfied with the result can call for a review in line with the extant laws of the school.

Leopantro:
you truly believe that? how many law schools are in Nigeria and what is the capacity of each one? if everyone passed the exam do you really think all the law schools would have the capacity to accommodate them?
the law board passes a certain percentage of applicant for each exam irrespective of the number that applied for it. check last year's pass rate.

Tbliss12:

They claimed that Onadeko wants to destroy their career by failing them en masse and they have called for a review of the examination as well as their results.

Tbliss12:

http://www.naij.com/307846-mass-failure-at-nigerian-law-school.html


http://www.channelstv.com/2014/10/20/law-school-reacts-mass-failure-bar-exams/

Tbliss12:

http://www.naij.com/307846-mass-failure-at-nigerian-law-school.html


http://www.channelstv.com/2014/10/20/law-school-reacts-mass-failure-bar-exams/

justi4jesu:
Ok so what now