| Olarenwaju Adesola Onadeko, Director General, Nigeria Law School |
Over
4000 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 by failing them en masse. The students called for a
review of the examination as well as 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 who
had 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?
At the time of filing this report, our correspondent was unable to reach the DG or any member of management.
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.
