Over
3000 students of the Nigeria 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 to PM News
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?
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.
Credit: PM News
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