AFTER several years of frustration, the law graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) are to be admitted into the Nigerian Law School from 2022.
This is, however, subject to conditional approval by the Body of Benchers, following its resolution on the lingering issue at a meeting held on Thursday.
Sources confirmed to LEGITSCHOOLGIST that the meeting was held at the Supreme Court Complex presided over by O.C.J. Okocha, SAN.
An online report also said the Chairman of Council of Legal Education, Chief Emeka Ngige, SAN, has confirmed the development.
*It was gathered that the conditional approval was for the backlog of 1,883 law students who graduated from NOUN to be admitted to Law School BAR PART 1 instead of BAR PART 2.
He added that it is when a student has passed the BAR PART 1 that he or she will be admitted to do the BAR PART 2 and failing the exam, means not doing the Part 2 and will have no second chance of rewriting the BAR PART 1.
Ngige, confirming the development said: “It has been approved subject to conditions and the conditions are that it is restricted to 1,883 students from the Open University and then, secondly, they will be subjected to the 1-year remedial programme at the Law School.”
He explained that the one-year programme was targeted at exposing students to some rudimentary laws where they would undergo another round of teaching on the core Law courses: Law of Evidence, Introduction to Nigerian Law and Land Law, among other courses.
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