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Reps Wade Into NOUN Law Graduates’ Admission Crisis

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The House of Representatives has waded into the lingering impasse over the admission of law graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) into the Nigerian Law School for the requisite Bar training and examinations. The intervention followed a petition by a group of over 5000 affected NOUN law……

The House of Representatives has waded into the lingering impasse over the admission of law graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) into the Nigerian Law School for the requisite Bar training and examinations.

The intervention followed a petition by a group of over 5000 affected NOUN law graduates who urged the House to intervene in the prolonged situation which they say had denied them the opportunity to proceed to the Nigerian Law School and qualify for Call to Bar.

The petition alleged that NOUN law graduates had consistently been denied admission into the Nigerian Law School, resulting in a growing backlog of affected graduates.

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The petitioners put the number of affected graduates at more than 5,000, saying they had been left stranded despite completing their LLB programme, while graduates of law from other universities had proceeded to the Nigerian Law School, completed their Bar training and examinations, and qualified to practise as legal practitioners.

The development prompted the House Committee on Public Petitions to invite NOUN and the Council of Legal Education (CLE), the body responsible for the Nigerian Law School, to appear before it and explain the circumstances surrounding the prolonged dispute.

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