Law School: NOUN Law graduates petition Senate over being left out

81 views0

Law School: NOUN Law graduates petition Senate over being left out

By

The law graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN, have sent a 20-point petition to the Senate over their exclusion from the Nigerian Law School programme.”ŽCarl Umegboro, Chairman of the “Law Graduates Forum’’ made this known in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday.According to him, the letter which was dated April 23 and submitted to the Chairman, Senate Committee on Ethics and Privileges, Samuel Anyanwu, raised issues concerning its member.Umegboro said the issues would help ”Žthe Senate during the public hearing on the National Open University of Nigeria and Nigerian law school crisis which the committee was determined to resolve.”ŽRecall the Council of Legal Education released its Public Notice in 2015 through various newspapers against the Open University’s Faculty of Law that admitted its first set in 2004 and graduated in 2013.“The university has at the moment graduated four sets with LL. B degrees that have been rendered idle and roaming around the streets since law degree cannot easily fit into other fields of endeavours.“The student’s handbook of the university states that on successful award of Bachelor of Law, students shall be admitted into the Nigerian law school in pursuit of enrolment to the bar for practice,’’ Umegboro said. 

Discover more from NewsBreakers

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

What's your reaction?

Excited
0
Happy
0
In Love
0
Not Sure
0
Silly
0
Previous
Next

Comments are closed.