Nigeria Law School Exams-Students Blame DG For Mass Failure

Over 3,000 students of the Nigeria Law School have decried the mass failure in the bar exams, which saw 70% of students failing the exams.

The students blamed this on the Director General of Nigerian Law School, Olarenwaju Adesola Onadeko. The students claimed that the DG aims to destroy their career by failing them en mass; and therefore call for a review of the exam as well as their results.

PM News reports that the students sent text messages and emails to them, demanding that the exams and the results 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.

Quoting another text, the paper reports that some lecturers are in support of their actions:

“#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”.

The paper then quoted another student, who 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?

No official response has been made by the school or the DG at the time of filing the report.