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Justice Hilary Oshomah of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt has set Oct. 4 to rule on the suit filed by some law graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).<\/p>\n

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The graduates went to court following the refusal of the relevant authorities to admit them to the Nigerian Law School.<\/p>\n

Joined in the suit are the Council for Legal Education, National Universities Commission, the Attorney-General of the Federation and NOUN.<\/p>\n

Mr Mark Agwu, Counsel to Council for Legal Education, urged the court to strike out the case at Wednesday\u2019s hearing in Port Harcourt.<\/p>\n

He told the court that part-time and correspondent graduates were not qualified for admission into the Nigeria Law School.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe certificate from NOUN Law Faculty is not enough to give the graduates admission into the Law school,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

But Prof. Abiodun Amuda-Kannike, Counsel to the plaintiffs, urged the court to deliver judgment in favour of his clients in line with the reliefs sort by the affected graduates.<\/p>

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He told the court that the Council for Legal Education was bent on depriving his clients the privilege of being admitted into the Law School.<\/p>\n

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)\u200e recalls that the Council for Legal Education had issued a public notice in 2015 against NOUN\u2019s admission of its first set of law students in 2004, who later graduated in 2013.<\/p>\n

\u200eConsequently, the Law Graduates Forum of NOUN filed a suit against the Council, challenging its refusal to admit them into the Ni\u200egerian Law School programme.<\/p>\n

After hearing the matter on Dec. 7, 2016, in Port Harcourt, the presiding Judge, Justice Babatunde Quadri, failed to deliver judgment on the case on Jan. 27, 2017 as scheduled.<\/p>\n

\u200eSince then, the law graduates have continued to fight for the judgment with several petitions to the appropriate quarters until the matter was re-assigned to Oshomah.<\/p>\n

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the ruling will determine whether or not the more than 1,000 law graduates of NOUN will be able to practice law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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