43% candidates of Nigerian Law School fail resit examinations

About 43 per cent of the candidates who took the April 2019 Final Bar Resit Examinations of the Nigerian Law School failed.

The Council of Legal Education which runs the law school said in a statement on Saturday that the 43.10 per cent translated to 720 of the total  1,680 students who took the resit examinations.

According to the statement signed on behalf of the Council of Legal Education by the Director-General of the NLS, Prof. Isa Chiroma, 50.60 per cent, amounting to 850 students passed.

The statement read, “The Council of Legal Education has released the result of the Bar Final Resit Examinations conducted in April 2019 as follows:

“(a) Total number of students who participated at the examinations: 1,680.

“(b) Total number of successful candidates: 850.

“(c) Total number of candidates with conditional pass: 34.

“(d) Total number of candidates who failed: 724.

“The above translates in percentages as follows:

“Pass 50.60 %.

“Conditional Pass 2.02 %.

“Fail 43.10%.”

The statement added: “the Call to the Bar ceremonies for the successful candidates will hold on July 9, 2019 in Abuja.”