An Abuja-based human rights lawyer, Maxwell
Opara has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to
stop the purported law degree programmes of
the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).
In a writ of summons filed by his counsel,
Nnenna Opara, the lawyer avers that the law
programme of NOUN has not conformed to the
minimum standards of law education as set by
the Nigerian Law School (NLS)’s Council of Legal
Education (CLE).
The CLE standard stipulates that “law must be
studied on a full time basis and not on part time
or by correspondence.”
Opera told the court that NOUN and the National
Universities Commission (NUC) “deceived and
lured innocent Nigerians to believe that NOUN
was duly accredited to offer law.”
Besides being a Nigerian tax payer, Opara avers
that he expended his fortune to sponsor two
persons to take the programme until he realized
that NOUN has no approval to offer law when
thousands of the programme’s graduates with
LL.B degrees were rejected by the Nigerian Law
School.
Meanwhile, Justice Ahmed Mohammed has
ordered the applicant to serve hearing notices on
NOUN and the NUC.
He adjourned the matter to October 1 for
hearing.
source: dailytrust.com.ng/daily/index.php/law/57901-lawyer-asks-court-stop-noun-law-course

I surport this case for crying out loud

I hope his suit doesn't succeed
what happens to those that have paid millions hoping to become a lawyer one day.
just saying