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BlackViper:
https://thenigerialawyer.com/over-10000-called-to-bar-in-3-months-nba-president-osigwe-slams-universities-for-breaching-admission-quotas-warns-law-school-overwhelmed/

Lalami3232:

I rather we produce more Doctors who can set up good DNA test centers, rather than producing all these charge and bail lawyers.

What do I even know sef aside enlightening my fellow men nationwide with the good news

arantess:
No be small thing oo

Many of them will now become house and land agents

dfrost:
Nigerians and the herd mentality. When one discipline pays, all man follow like malu.

wellmax:
Instead of increasing capacity of Law School or pushing for new ones, NBA wants to deny students admission. Just imagine the mentality.

pacino26:
Admission quota in respect National demographics or some BS in his head!. We are having population boom in this country of ours and all this chairman can think about is the exclusivity of the law profession! They should go and take up cases left abandoned in many correctional centres across the nation. They can as well encourage more of them to join the ministry of interior as police officers and all that. We need just about every aspect of human endeavors for this country to move forward.

francisobiabo:
It's appaling to say the least, rather than 'what ought' we go with the crowd of ' what is '.
Herd mentality is right now a norm to say the least.
May God help us

NinjaMetahuman:
They want to keep lawyers expensive so only the rich can afford one.

What's so special about being a lawyer that you need small quota for?

Greedy people.

Sellfish:
As a lawyer myself, I think the NBA President just aired his personal opinion on this matter, an opinion which I do not agree with..

Unless he can prove he was never surplus to requirement at any point in his life, I believe he should live and let live

As NBA President, he has direct access to the CLE, BOB, University VCs, and all Law Faculty Deans...So I am at a loss as to what he is slamming in public when he can conveniently walk into their offices and express his displeasure at the situation..

As long as these people were able to pass the rigors of their various University Faculties of Law and also pass the more than rigorous Bar Final exams, I believe they have earned their place as our learned colleagues

When these new wigs pay their practicing fees to the NBA account l, I am sure he won't reject such funds because they are surplus and undesired members...More lawyers means more money for the NBA yes? ..and I am sure he will never complain about too much money entering the NBA Aza.

Starz825:
Too much law students/graduates for a lawless country like Nigeria


What an irony

BangaRice:
He is right. Tgere is a quota system in place. At accreditation stage, department size is also checked so how did the regulatory process collapse?

Sellfish:
It's not about him being right or not

It's about his being in a position to do something about it, by virtue of his being the NBA President, not publicly calling anyone out or making the new wigs feel like a burden at the Bar

Lalami3232:

I rather we produce more Doctors who can set up good DNA test centers, rather than producing all these charge and bail lawyers.

What do I even know sef aside enlightening my fellow men nationwide with the good news

Sellfish:
As a lawyer myself, I think the NBA President just aired his personal opinion on this matter, an opinion which I do not agree with..

Unless he can prove he was never surplus to requirement at any point in his life, I believe he should live and let live

As NBA President, he has direct access to the CLE, BOB, University VCs, and all Law Faculty Deans...So I am at a loss as to what he is slamming in public when he can conveniently walk into their offices and express his displeasure at the situation..

As long as these people were able to pass the rigors of their various University Faculties of Law and also pass the more than rigorous Bar Final exams, I believe they have earned their place as our learned colleagues

When these new wigs pay their practicing fees to the NBA account l, I am sure he won't reject such funds because they are surplus and undesired members...More lawyers means more money for the NBA yes? ..and I am sure he will never complain about too much money entering the NBA Aza.

wellmax:
The major misconception is see here is people think lawyers must work in litigation or defences. There are several other ways to work with a law degree

Love800:
Whai the difference between law school and call to bar?

I thought after you graduate from the university, then proceed to attend law school, you can call yourself a lawyer.

Sellfish:
Graduating from a uni's faculty of law doesn't automatically grant you a spot at Law School..your faculty has to be accredited, and you have to hustle to be get one of the limited law school slots allocated to your uni faculty...

Then if you get a spot at the law school, you have to make sure you graduate successfully from your faculty, and more importantly, get cleared to convocate..Your faculty or uni fit still mess you up for dying minute ..

Then you have to be able to afford the rather expensive law school fees, books and living expenses excluded...

Then if you graduated from a foreign uni, you have to do 2 years at law school, while local graduates do the normal 1 year..

After all those wahala, you have to keep out of trouble throughout your period at the law school, failing which you will be declared "not fit and proper" and thrown out ...Then you are just a law graduate..

Then you are more likely to fail the law school final exams called "Bar Finals" than pass it....It's one of the top 4 most mentally tasking exams in the country...Na fire for fire ...And don't even think of cheating during that exam.... Attempting to cheat never ends well..

It's only when you pass the Bar finals and are found to have no outstanding issues at both uni, law school and even personal levels that you will be called to Bar in a rather elaborate ceremony ...

So even if you do pass the Bar Finals, and the Council of Legal Education later discovers that you once stole in secondary school or even cheated in an exam in primary school, you will be declared not fit and proper, and summarily thrown out...whatever iniquity you might have done, pray it never surfaces to the law school authorities before you become a lawyer...

So when next you see a lawyer comot cap for am..E no easy to become one

Na after call to Bar most of us lawyers dey show our real color

Love800:
Thanks so much.

So after writing and passing the call-to-bar examination, is that when they start looking for law-firms to employ dem?

Like i want to know what next after call to bar?

Sellfish:
After call to Bar, you are mostly on your own

You can seek employment, open a law office and hustle for clients, or abandon the lawyering and do something else, preferably lawful.

If you choose to go illegal, you won't be the first or last lawyer to do so tho...Only that when the law catches up with you, it will be worse for you considering that it is assumed that being a lawyer, you should know better than do illegal stuff...Hand go touch you no be small

Love800:
Wow. I really appreciate.

But can you talk about this law-firm i earlier stated!
It seems after finishing bar exams, law firms are where they usually end up in. Why is every lawyer wanting to go there?

And what do you mean by the bolded?

These are my last questions. I won't stress you again. Thank you.

Sellfish:
I have answered enough questions from you I believe

Someone else can step in to further elucidate

Thanks