Buhari's daughter Halima joins 2,258 others in graduating from Nigerian law School

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's daughter Halima was one of 2,259 lawyers who were called to the bar in Abuja yesterday following their success in the April 2016 final examinations conducted by the Nigerian Law School.

 

Carried out under the supervision of the Council of Legal Education, the bar examinations are the last hurdle lawyers have to scale before qualifying as barristers. Halima was accompanied by her mother, Aisha Buhari, alongside her siblings to the colourful call-to-bar ceremony at the International Conference Centre in Abuja.

 

At the ceremony, a national record was set when 80-year-old Enebeli Pius Chuka, became the oldest Nigerian to be called to the bar. Olanrewaju Onadeko, the director-general of the Nigerian Law School, said the 80-year-old man was the oldest new wig ever produced by the Nigerian Law School.

 

Mr Onadeko said the classroom IT solution, a video conferencing platform linking all campuses of the Nigerian Law School, deployed by the Nigerian Communications Satellite would be commissioned soon to enable members of the bar and the bench interact with students at any of the campuses. He added that the violation of admission quotas by some faculties of law remained a major challenge and reiterated the need for strict adherence to allocated students’ numbers by universities, pointing out that failure to keep to these numbers would negatively affect the quality of their products.

He said some faculties of law have had their accreditation withdrawn for violating admission quotas. Mr Onadeko noted that when universities violated their law school admission quotas, the projection of the school in the short and medium terms would be disrupted.