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ccollins:
the re-admission I see on that site are for which people. I wonder when 2nd final lists will be out and when law school would start registration

i think re admission are for people that failed last year or had problems during application. last year my university supplementary list came out 2 days to the end of registration and people had to rush to their campuses.

Resumption date is nov 9. Those rumours were actually true

Hibiyemsy:
Resumption date is nov 9. Those rumours were actually true

haba, which nov 9. on my birthday ke?? abeg, some have not done application and law school have not updated anything on their website recently about admission

Lol. Nov 7th I mean

please for those who have passed through NLS, how much did you spend in buying all the recommended text-books needed for the programme?

Arguably the most respected profession in the world, it comes with a great amount of veneration and men who are privileged to be called by it are generally seen as sacred and untouchable beings especially if they are very good at what they do. The mere sight of a harmless looking sticker on his car professing that he belongs to the profession scares away every inquisitive eye in black uniform patrolling the roads not to protect lives but to procure the green card. He steps into every arena and brings with him an undeniable aura, though he does not know all, he is believed to be Mr. Know it all. No discussion is complete without his weighty input, opinion and idea. No shrewd businessman enters into a venture without consulting him. You dare not lie to him if you indeed need and want his help. But for all these to happen, he has to pay a very huge price!
To qualify to stand before the court and defend a man is not easy and can best be regarded as a herculean task. Herculean; not because it is such a difficult phenomenon but herculean because of the complex pecuniary steps involved. Attaining the status of a legal practitioner in Nigeria is a long, boring and dry procedure. Five years of University education studying Law during which you will most likely end up teaching yourself half of what you ought to be taught. Here in Nigeria, it is a matter of reading even if you don’t understand; cramming even if you will forget the next second you drop your pen. Such is the life of the Law student that he is recognised by all and sundry by the colours of his school ‘uniform’. He doesn’t have to open his mouth before he is recognised as a lawyer to be.
To put it mildly, the life of a Law student can at times be a life of deception; he is called ‘Barrister’ (which by the way is wrong even though many lawyers like to use it) by his friends and non-law colleagues and believed to know the Law even when the laws is as ‘simple’ as the language of the Kalahari Desert Bush men of Botswana. Anyways, he manages and survives the five years in the University all the while been held in great esteem, and then it is now time to go further than the LL.B and earn his chance to stand and address their LORDSHIPS. But a simple obstacle awaits him! Law school fees!
He will have to cough out about N300,000 (three hundred thousand naira) so he could attend Law school and of course that does not include the cost of his exorbitant textbooks nor does it include his living expenses for the duration of his stay at the one-year program. This may not be a problem for some parents as they have even spent more than a million per session on their wards schooling in a private University but for the majority, this is a major obstacle.
What is more annoying, if he manages to gather the money from every nook and corner of his community (son of the community) and attends the law school, he is expected to wait for some years before he can earn something worth his effort and the huge expenditure. He is sometimes offered as low as 25,000 naira after expending close to a million naira at the Law school. He may get frustrated and decide to join the bandwagon of C and B (charge and bail) lawyers. This will eventually lead to frustration and he may spend the rest of his career aboard the C and B ship; trapped and unable to escape.
It is painfully funny that his classmates who also spent the same number of years schooling and reading similarly annoying textbooks (Medicine and Pharmacy) earns nothing less than a 100,000 even while on house duty. He cannot figure out why he didn’t choose Medicine: suddenly, he realises that he hated arithmetic. Whenever he asks his fathers in the legal profession whom he respects so much and sees riding in big cars, they tell him that they went through the same process and that he should keep working hard and his time will come. There is no problem with working hard but shouldn’t one’s effort be proportionate to his reward? How is he expected to survive with 25,000 naira?
He is meant to show confidence in everything; including his finances or else his client won’t trust him. 25,000 would have been perfect if he were still in the University but out here in the world with 25,000? The community is looking up to him, after all to whom much is given, much is equally expected. His sibling now boasts thus to his friend: ‘Don’t you know my brother is a lawyer?’
The friend replies ‘that makes sense o, why don’t you ask him to send you some money?’
Of course to prove to his friend that his brother is indeed a lawyer, he calls and requests for money, he however refuses to tell his friend his brother had sent the money. A month later, the friend remembers and asked. ‘He could only send 2,000’ was the reply he got.
‘Like seriously? And you say he is a lawyer?’ the friend retorted. Such is the huge burden the society places on the shoulders of the young lawyer and who can blame them!
And then, I realise that Law is not for the poor. I imagine many parents/guardian, whose children/wards are already been called ‘Barrister’ by friends and family even before their LL.B is successfully completed. I imagine these same students who are either forced to stay at home for a year or two looking for money; thank God for Youth service! Many Law graduates have used the one year mandatory service to hide the unbearable shame of not been able to attend the Law school immediately after graduation. Some of these graduates have their dreams eventually frustrated and truncated for paucity of funds and others lose ground to their class mates who will be proud to say ‘don’t you know I am your senior at the bar?’ I imagine a young lawyer who passes through this stress and still asking his/her parent for some monthly tips because he is being paid some meagre salary. I imagine! And sadness creeps into my heart for the young lawyer.
He will (if diligent and with God’s grace) eventually make it to the top of the legal profession but the question on my lips and in my heart is: should the ambition of a man be cut off simply because he cannot afford to pay for it? The answer may be NO but the reality of the present situation teaches that it is wiser and safer for the intending law student and lawyer-to-be to count his cost before venturing into the world of legal jamborees and jargons after all the Bible explains that no man builds a house or start a war without counting the cost to know if he can successfully complete it! But of course there is the option of faith, if your faith can, then jump right in!

culled from http://www.thescoopng.com/2013/07/17/oluwatosin-fatoyinbo-nigerian-law-school-poor-men-need-not-apply/

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Goddys:
please for those who have passed through NLS, how much did you spend in buying all the recommended text-books needed for the programme?

I'm about going too. I heard it's around 40k for textbooks and laws

I don't know if this is possible... but how about we create a whatsapp group for this purpose? I think it will b easier to access information and share news on that platform...

3pleo:

I'm about going too. I heard it's around 40k for textbooks and laws

mogbe!!!

Hey

3pleo:

I'm about going too. I heard it's around 40k for textbooks and laws

la haola.

Hibiyemsy:
Resumption date is nov 9. Those rumours were actually true

Please, what's the source of your information?

UchechukwuEdozi:
I don't know if this is possible... but how about we create a whatsapp group for this purpose? I think it will b easier to access information and share news on that platform...

good idea. Add me on whatsapp to join the group 07061858925

Message me on whatsapp 07061858925, to join the law school prospective students' group.



trixandra
EhiAbah
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3pleo
emirsky
Goddys
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ccollins
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Genipha

I suggest we keep this thread going,notwithstanding d whatsapp group,cos its not everyone that whatsapp,due 2 fone capacity and what have u not.....my Humble opinion

ccollins:
the re-admission I see on that site are for which people. I wonder when 2nd final lists will be out and when law school would start registration

I agree with you

Most law school campuses (Lagos especially) will decry and prohibit purchase of the books outside the campus because they claim it is pirated, but most students obviously do breach the rule. All recommended text including statute won't cost above 30k if you opt for purchase outside the school bookshop (from experience).

Of course you cannot purchase all the statute books for all 5 courses. Only the major ones like CAMA, ACJA, ACJL, High Court Civil Procedure Rules (Lagos and Abuja), Constitution, Evidence Act e.t.c will be necessary for fruitful studies.

You can ask any other questions especially those coming to Lagos Campus.

markdonpuzo:
Most law school campuses (Lagos especially) will decry and prohibit purchase of the books outside the campus because they claim it is pirated, but most students obviously do breach the rule. All recommended text including statute won't cost above 30k if you opt for purchase outside the school bookshop (from experience).

Of course you cannot purchase all the statute books for all 5 courses. Only the major ones like CAMA, ACJA, ACJL, High Court Civil Procedure Rules (Lagos and Abuja), Constitution, Evidence Act e.t.c will be necessary for fruitful studies.

You can ask any other questions especially those coming to Lagos Campus.

But posting isn't out yet, or is it?

EhiAbah:

But posting isn't out yet, or is it?

Not yet dear...Very soon

if u need help in ur posting and u reside in onitsha... indicate-one person only...

markdonpuzo:
Most law school campuses (Lagos especially) will decry and prohibit purchase of the books outside the campus because they claim it is pirated, but most students obviously do breach the rule. All recommended text including statute won't cost above 30k if you opt for purchase outside the school bookshop (from experience).

Of course you cannot purchase all the statute books for all 5 courses. Only the major ones like CAMA, ACJA, ACJL, High Court Civil Procedure Rules (Lagos and Abuja), Constitution, Evidence Act e.t.c will be necessary for fruitful studies.

You can ask any other questions especially those coming to Lagos Campus.

Please i want to know if payment of school fee is a prerequisite for registration at law school..Is one permitted to pay in instalment or after resumption of lectures?

Please add me to the whatsapp group.

Goddys:
Please i want to know if payment of school fee is a prerequisite for registration at law school..Is one permitted to pay in instalment or after resumption of lectures?

Yes one needs to pay fees before registration. No installment payment bro.

Bless up

angelusbrut:
if u need help in ur posting and u reside in onitsha... indicate-one person only...

I stay in Onitsha and I need help. Thanks

Who has any info as to when the posting will be out?

NLS is an interesting place to be. Posting will be out latest by Friday. You can resume on Sunday and you will be given temporary accommodation. Please wait for lectures or induction to commence b4 you buy any textbook. From experience, some students buy books which they eventually do not need. For further enquiries, please contact me via email on akinobukky@gmail.com. If you are posted to a campus that you don't like, don't panic, pray and proceed. You will meet your own good luck and your people there. Keep checking www.nigerianlawschool.edu.ng for more information

trixandra:
I stay in Onitsha and I need help. Thanks

pm me asap before it's late

angelusbrut:

pm me asap before it's late

I just sent you a pm

faithbukky:
NLS is an interesting place to be. Posting will be out latest by Friday. You can resume on Sunday and you will be given temporary accommodation. Please wait for lectures or induction to commence b4 you buy any textbook. From experience, some students buy books which they eventually do not need. For further enquiries, please contact me via email on akinobukky@gmail.com. If you are posted to a campus that you don't like, don't panic, pray and proceed. You will meet your own good luck and your people there. Keep checking www.nigerianlawschool.edu.ng for more information

Thank you for the information. When is the actual resumption date because I heard it's 31st October? How true is this information?

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